Jim Root was the first member of Slipknot to hit the studio to begin working on new music earlier this year. Corey Taylor said as late as last week that the music is going to sound exactly how you want it to, whatever that means. But, perhaps Root was spending too much time focusing on Slipknot and not enough on his other band, which coincidentally also features Corey Taylor.
Today, we got word that Root got the boot from Stone Sour. The news first spread on Root's Instagram when a fan asked why Root won't be playing the three Stone Stour gigs booked this summer. Root let it out that the reason is because he was asked to step away from the band: