Matt Wallace – best known for producing Slipknot – is currently in Iowa shaping fresh tracks with the band.

Jim Root notes currently boasts over 50 riffs in the works the group.

He exchanged studio time for golf at Royal Birkdale.

Five birdies in Round 1 put him among the early frontrunners in the 156-man field.

Wallace typically spends his days with albums, but lately he splits days between the mixing console and the back nine at St. Andrews Links.