Guitarist Jim Root sat out Stone Sour‘s tour this year with the reason given that he was concentrating on writing music for Slipknot‘s next album. A fan asked the guitarist on Instagram if he was still taking time off from the band. To which, Root replied, “I’m not in that band anymore. Not my decision. Not happy about it.” After that news came out Corey Taylor tweeted:
Sorry for the wait. We'll give you more when we can. Not the way we wanted, but you deserve to know. pic.twitter.com/leQ7vkXTgC
— Panickin’ Skywalker (@CoreyTaylorRock) May 17, 2014
Jim and I are still working together in Slipknot and the album is almost done.
— Panickin’ Skywalker (@CoreyTaylorRock) May 17, 2014