As they celebrate the release of a 10th anniversary edition of their second album, Iowa, SLIPKNOT is eyeing a near-future that includes more touring - including North American dates next year - and the possibility of a new album.

But in the wake of bassist Paul Gray's 2010 death, percussionist M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan tells Billboard.com that "we're just taking our time. Everyone is still getting through the grieving process their way, remembering Paul Gray the way they need to and helping themselves get through this time because it's still very fresh and it's still very serious and hurtful and unbelievable."

Because of that, Crahan adds that "there's no talk of a new record, but there's a lot of stuff that everybody's got. Everybody's got ideas and everybody's writing, but it won't happen until we get together as a band and have a big discussion about what it is we want to accomplish. We lost a very important piece of our enigma, and we're not going to get together and bust through it just to bust through it because everybody wants us to."

For his part, however, Crahan expects Slipknot's next recording, if it transpires, to dovetail somewhat with "Iowa," which he recalls as "a very dark, painful time" for the Iowa-based heavy rockers. He predicts that "what's next is a lot of what 'Iowa was,' but different. 'Iowa' was very angry and very hateful and very evil, and...this is my opinion only, but I think (the next album) is going to be very sad. It will have that layer of anger and hate and evil that will come with being just so sad, but... I think a really, really, really special change in our career is coming. I don't think it's going to be better, and I don't think it's going to be worse. I just think it's going to be different. I think that's what we want, and I know that's what Paul would want."

Read the entire interview here.