Jim Root, the guitarist sat out of Stone Sour‘s North American headline tour earlier this year, to concentrate on writing music for Slipknot’s next album, but now the guitarist – who was on Slipknot/Stone Sour double duty with Corey Taylor – is no longer a part of the group. The news first appeared on May 17, when Jim replied to a fan on his Instagram account, stating that he was “not happy about it.” you can see that here:
Source: InstagramCorey Taylor then posted this to his twitter:
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
— Captain Fluffy Bug (@CoreyTaylorRock) May 17, 2014
And Then Confirmed that Root will still be involved in Slipknot
Jim and I are still working together in Slipknot and the album is almost done.
— Captain Fluffy Bug (@CoreyTaylorRock) May 17, 2014
