SLIPKNOT Announces First Single With ELOY CASAGRANDE, “Long May You Die”
Slipknot revealed the news on their Instagram, saying: “Slipknot fans are talking amongst themselves about ‘Long May You Die’ being a new song written during the recent recording sessions. ‘You’re right. You’re absolutely right.'” The new song will be Slipknot‘s first with new drummer Eloy Casagrande and whoever replaced Craig “133” Jones – we’re still not clear on that one.
In a recent interview, Casagrande noted that part of his audition process was to contribute to new music. “[The band] asked me to extend my stay by another 5 days, so we could record some things,” he said. “I think that was also part of the audition, they threw new ideas at me to see what my songwriting was like. They wanted to test me in every way.”
Slipknot guitarist Jim Root also spoke a little about new material in an interview with Tone-Talk, though Root claimed the band hadn’t done much yet.
“We haven’t really started doing that yet. We will be doing that real soon. Eloy has sent me some drum loops. He e-mailed me some… Eloy does a lot of drum videos on his own and play-alongs in his home studio and stuff like that. So he sent me five or six minute — from a minute long to one that’s a couple minutes long of just him playing drums, and I downloaded those on to my computer and I converted them into files that I could import into Pro Tools. I spent some time kind of trying to write some riffs to them.
“It was a little bit difficult because he basically sent me two-minute-long drum solos. And I’m not really good at finding a bit, chopping it out and then looping it to make that, like, ‘Okay, this sounds like it could be like an intro riff on the drums. And this sounds like it could be like a verse riff on the drums.’ ‘Cause the particular ones that he sent me, it’s, like, a lot of real stunt drumming and really busy stuff. And I wrote riffs to most all of it.
“There’s one in particular that I’m thinking about that if it does turn into a song, it’s gonna be an awfully chaotic song, which could be really cool. So, yes and no, he’s contributing, but we haven’t really gotten there yet. We’re trying to get these shows under our belt first and then it’s time to put our nose to the grindstone and start the creative writing process.”
Into Eternity is officially working on their first new record since 2008’s The Incurable Tragedy with vocalist Stu Block. According to Block in an interview with This Day In Metal, Into Eternity is currently unsigned and is planning on taking their time with the new material.
“It’s gonna be slow going,” said Block. “We’re gonna make sure it’s right — make sure it’s released right, make sure the music’s right, make sure everything is right. We don’t have a record label breathing down our neck, so we wanna release something that we’re very happy with and not forced to do. So we’re taking it on our own time. So definitely an Into Eternity album will be happening.”
Block originally left Into Eternity in 2013 to go join Iced Earth. Block managed to get two records with Iced Earth out before Jon Schaffer went and tanked the entire band. Block was replaced by vocalist Amanda Kiernan upon leaving, and Into Eternity released their first album in 10 years called The Sirens in 2018.
Other than the new material, it’s been pretty slow going for Block and Into Eternity lately. The band has played three shows since Block rejoined – two in 2022 and one at Manitoba Metalfest 2024 – and has generally been lying low on social media. Regardless, a new Block-fronted Into Eternity album is very exciting news.
Idle Heirs is the brand new band featuring Coalesce frontman Sean Ingram and producer Josh Barber (Norma Jean, The Devil Wears Prada, Tech N9ne). Idle Heirs has signed to Relapse Records and is currently plotting the release of their debut album sometime in 2025.
“We initially had no intention to share this record outside of our loved ones so there was absolutely no fear to go out on a limb (creatively) and just let it live wherever that went,” wrote Ingram of the project. “In that way the record really wrote itself, and the bigger challenge was just getting out of the way and let it be what it wanted to be.”
Considering Relapse Records’ streak of putting out bangers like those new Dreamless Veil and Living Gate records, I’m betting Idle Heirs
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