SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor has confirmed to Matt Pinfield of 95.5 KLOS‘s “New & Approved” series that he and his bandmates have commenced work on the follow-up to 2019’s “We Are Not Your Kind” album. He said (see video below): “We’ve compiled a lot of material. Me and Clown (percussionist Shawn Crahan) have talked about something really, really cool, if we can pull it off. There’s a chance that it could be conceptual — if we can really do it right. I mean, the music is brilliant. It expands on what we did with ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ — it kind of blossoms from there — but the great thing is, it’s got not only that, but it’s got everything that you would want from a SLIPKNOT project; there’s the heavy stuff, there’s the dark stuff, there’s the melodic stuff, there’s the weird stuff. We have so many different flavors that we can play with that, now, at this point, it’s just us kind of mixing and matching and seeing what excites us.”

He continued: “That’s all I can say for right now. But I can tell you that it’s really, really good, man. We’re entering a realm that we’ve never been, and that, to us, is exciting. Especially after all of these years, we pride ourselves on always being able to try and top ourselves, and if we can pull this off, this may be the ultimate ‘top ourselves.'”

Taylor‘s latest comments come four months after he told “Good Company” that SLIPKNOT is “thinking about putting another album out maybe in 2021. But I don’t know. I don’t know what the plan is yet. But I know that we were talking about doing it, ’cause we only have one album left on our contract with our record label.”