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Slipknot have been busy: Their new album .5 The Gray Chapter dropped in the fall and they've been been touring like crazy-- including rocking Grand Rapids last month.

Frontman Corey Taylor has a ton going on too: His other band Stone Sour is working on a series of covers EPs, he's got a new book out, plus he's acting.

In a June 18 interview with RockSvierge Taylor shared that after their current touring schedule ends, Slipknot will take a break for a few years.

Taylor responded to rumors that Slipknot is already working on material for a new album,

 "Well, I mean, we're gonna finish touring and then we're gonna take a couple of years off again to, kind of, let everything chill. I'm gonna go do my thing, everybody else's gonna go, kind of, do their thing. I know Clown's got movies that he wants to make, which is very cool. He just wrapped his first feature a couple of months ago, which I'm pretty stoked for him about. So everybody is gonna, kind of, do their thing, and then, in a couple of years, we'll get back together and see what happens again. Kind of what we used to do… Before we lost Paul, that's what we would do: we would go for a while and then we would get back together after a couple of years and say, like, 'All right. What have we got now?' So I think that's what we're gonna do." via Blabbermouth

On the success of the .5 the Gray Chapter, he shared,

"We've always strive to make the music for ourselves first and then hope that the audience is there afterwards... Obviously we are very happy that people have embraced it the way that we embraced it when we recorded it."

Taylor also talks his surprise about the level success of the band has reached, what it's been like to play together for 20 years, and the crazy weather they've had on the tour-- watch the rest of the interview above!

For more Corey Taylor-- check out his interview with Johnnie Walker and Metal Head Ned below! He talks about acting, the covers EPs with Stone Sour, the meaning behind the new song "Killpop", even the craziest thing he’s ever autographed– which happened in Grand Rapids in the parking lot of The Orbit Room!

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