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Matt Mills

Slipknot wrote “a bunch” of new music during the pandemic – and guitarist Jim Root says they’re scrapping all of it

Slipknot in 2024.

Slipknot guitarist Jim Root says the nu metal nine-piece wrote a host of material during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that it will never see the light of day.

Talking in an interview with Guitar Interactive, recorded before one of the band’s shows at London’s O2 Arena in December, Root admits (via The PRP), “There’s a bunch of music that was written during COVID that I’m not interested in.”

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