"It's so tragic and it's horrible, but life has to go on and the last thing Paul would ever want is for us to throw in the towel. (...) I will miss him forever but you can't sit and wallow and make excuses for not continuing Slipknot."

Joey comments on Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor's ambivalent stance towards making a new album:

"I've been in and out of the studio for about six months now that's on the Slipknot record and also on some solo stuff as well. Taylor does want to keep doing it."

The drummer continues by saying that he's going to form a band in the near future with a lot of the solo material he has been writing lately. Explains Joey:

"I don't want to release too much but I have been in the studio and I think people will be pretty surprised at what I come up with. It's heavy! But Slipknot is all I care about right now. We are one of a kind, for sure. No one will ever be like us."

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