Slipknot’s rhythmic mastermind Joey Jordison is an artist with an insatiable creativity just like Corey Taylor – frontman of the Nine from Des Moines – who also steers the Stone Sour boat with success while the rest of the Slipknot crew remains docked. After the Murderdolls adventure with Wednesday 13 was brought to an end earlier this year, maybe for good this time, the drummer had to find another outlet to channel his exuberant desire to create. It’s now done with Scar The Martyr. As he stresses in the following interview, Scar The Martyr is a band and not a project; and creating an “all-star band” was far from his mind even though the presence of Kris Norris (Darkest Hour) or ex-Nine Inch Nails Chris Vrenna could have given some of us the wrong idea.

If Joey Jordison has decided to put together this new band, it is first and foremost to write good songs. In order to prevent the audience from thinking it is indeed an “all-star band”, Joey hired an unknown (maybe not for long) singer, named Henry Dereck, with whom he has worked on building this intensely-metal act with an industrial inch. In spite of everything that is happening, Slipknot remains Joey Jordison’s head office. The new band was therefore created so that his qualities of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist could find a new cradle and enable him to write his own personal story as a frontman, accompanied by musicians suited for the titles he composed.

Considering Slipknot, Joy Jordison would like to reassure the fans by saying that “there’s some Slipknot material on the horizon,” “a bunch of songs” even, as the band is working on “getting this record out.” It is therefore “just time that [they] get to them” and they see the light.

Read the interview…