Eloy Casagrande is ready to work on new music with his new band, Slipknot.
Slipknot’s guitarist Jim Root recently spoke with Tone-Talk about whether the group is making new songs and if Casagrande is helping with that:
“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.”
Root Tried To Write Riffs On Eloy’s Parts
He further explained what he did with Casagrande’s drum parts:
“And I spent some time kind of trying to write some riffs to them. And 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.’”
Slipknot Might Have A New Song
Root talked about a possible new song and their route for the creative process:
“‘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. And 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.”
Eloy played his first two shows with Slipknot on April 25 at Pappy + Harriet’s in Pioneertown, California, and on April 27 at the Sick New World Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. Some fans thought he was a better fit for Slipknot than Jay Weinberg.
Casagrande talked about his audition for Slipknot in an interview. He got a call from Slipknot’s manager in December 2023. Initially, he didn’t know what to expect, but he learned the setlist and got a list of 32 songs to know. He felt nervous on the first day but improved each day with the band’s support. Overall, it went smoothly.
You can watch the rest of Root’s interview below.