SLIPKNOT DJ Sid Wilson has revealed that the band is planning to enter the studio next year to begin recording the long-awaited follow-up to 2008's "All Hope is Gone". He said, "We've got Mayhem Festival this summer and, after we break for winter we'll be back in the kitchen with SLIPKNOT. "It'll be tough, it won't be easy. SLIPKNOT's the biggest thing in all of our lives, but we're always going to come back to it. We're going to get it done. I'm excited and I'm ready to do it.

I'm sick of hearing people talk, it's time for action. When we come together, it's badass; we need to harness that energy of the live shows. When we come together like we always do, it's going to be brutal."

The band’s front man Corey Taylor has been ambivalent about working on new material following  the death of the group's bassist, Paul Gray in May 2010