This week they launched a video for The Negative One, the first track to appear from the follow-up to 2008's All Hope Is Gone. Speculation has been ramped up since then, with those in the frame including Lamb Of God's Chris Adler and Jay Wienberg, son of Bruce Springsteen's sticksman Max.

"We're keeping a lot of that under wraps, out of fairness, because we want the music to speak for itself," Taylor says. "We don't want people listening to our music and making up their minds about something before they even know what the music is. So trust me, you know, when the time is right, we will give you the answers that you need, and that's the way it is."