Paul Gray
Credit to the marketing and PR teams behind this one, because you can’t go anywhere without seeing something on the web about Slipknot’s return.
I digress. Root tells Revolver the following:
“It’s weird, man. I’m not a very spiritual person, and the whole religion thing, I’m kind of on the fence about a lot of that stuff. So when somebody loses someone who’s close to them and says that they’re still with them, I’ve always thought that was bullshit or whatever.
“But I was out in the garage and working on an arrangement for a song that turned into either ‘The Devil In I’ or ‘Sarcastrophe.’ Normally when I write, I throw down the first thing I come up with, then I double it, then I throw a bass on it, and then I put the drums around it. But on this arrangement, I noticed that I wasn’t just throwing the riff down—I was trying different variations on it, trying different positions on the neck, and thinking about melodies while coming up with what the chord progression was going to be…
“I suddenly realized, Fuck, man! That’s what Paul used to do! Paul was so meticulous. He would overthink everything, even if it was just how to get from one chord to the next chord. He would explore every possibility on the fretboard, especially if he was writing it on the guitar. And it made me go, He’s here, man—he’s helping me write this shit! And it blew my fucking mind. I had to put my guitar down, and I put my head in my hands. I was like, ‘You fucker!’”
In related news, one of the site’s readers has asked me whether I think it is possible Roy Mayorga, Stone Sour’s drummer, was tapped to be Slipknot’s new pitman. He directed me to this video.
I inspected the video for “The Devil in I” very closely; Roy seems to have some ink, but I could see no ink on the dude as he’s rocking long sleeves.
First drummer maybe ever to do that.
Is it possible? Sure. But I think it’s more probable (judging by the drummer’s hair in the clip) that it’s Jay Weinberg, formerly of Madball.
But who the fuck knows? And ultimately, why do any of us care? Don’t we have lives?
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