SLIPKNOT's CHRIS FEHN: Leaving No Idea Unexplored

April 30, 2004

SLIPKNOT percussionist Chris Fehn recently told Chris Steffen of The Oklahoma Daily that he thinks the group's new album, "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)", has the potential to make fans of heavy music forget about what he sees as a mediocre past few years.

"There's so much crap out there nowadays," Fehn said. "Nothing in the music industry is making me excited at all. On this record, there's shredder leads and congas. We even have a triangle on the record. 'SLIPKNOT playing a triangle? Come on.' You’ll be able to separate all the differences and the nuances a little bit better just because we had more time to record the record, and we took time to try things. There's old piano guts that we stripped out, and we beat on those with sticks. It's unreal, man.

"This is definitely our best record by far," he said. "Sonically, we had a lot of time to get all the sounds we wanted the way we wanted them. We spent quite a bit of time on this record — I think we were out there like six months. Everybody's just — we’re all better musicians, we're just getting older. We're better writers, we never left any idea unexplored. If you had an idea you wanted to bring to the table, it was just like 'Go ahead and do it.' I think that helped out a lot as far as getting some really different kinds of songs. It's still 'in-your-face-heavy,' but there are some breaks in there that let the album come down a bit. But it's still SLIPKNOT style." [Read more]

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