New Slipknot Funko POP! assortment consists of Jay Weinberg
A brand new Funko POP! assortment for Iowan heavy metallic band Slipknot has been revealed, and it consists of their just lately departed drummer Jay Weinberg.
As proven by recent listings on Entertainment Earth’s Funko POP! site, a number of new Funko figures of assorted Slipknot members are up for pre-orders and are anticipated to go reside someday in March.
Included within the upcoming drop are Shawn “Clown” Crahan, guitarists Jim Root and Mick Thomson, bassist Alessandro “V-Man” Venturella, percussionist Michael Pfaff and former drummer Jay Weinberg.
Los nuevos Funko Pop! de Slipknot contarían todavía con Jay Weinberg entre las figuras 😱 pic.twitter.com/5panKOvipa
— Slipknot México (@Slipknot_Mexico) January 10, 2024
The listings come simply two months after Slipknot introduced the shocking departure of Weinberg in early November 2023. In a now-deleted submit on social media, Slipknot introduced that they’d “determined to make a artistic determination, and to half methods with Jay”.
Jay Weinberg had been a member of the band since 2013, filling in for the late Joey Jordison. With Slipknot, Weinberg recorded three albums: 2014’s ‘.5: The Grey Chapter’, 2019’s ‘We Are Not Your Form’ and final 12 months’s ‘The Finish… So Far’.
The week after it was introduced that he had been ousted from the band, Jay Weinberg shared his personal assertion on social media, saying he was left “heartbroken and blindsided” by the choice. In his assertion, he revealed that he was knowledgeable of his departure from the band by way of cellphone name simply earlier than the band’s announcement went reside.
Slipknot have but to announce a brand new drummer, however frontman Corey Taylor has definitively dominated out Jeramie Kling, a former drummer for Venom Inc., from a listing of potential replacements. Taylor’s declaration that Kling gained’t be concerned in Slipknot comes after the drummer started teasing that he was stepping in for Weinberg.
In December, Shawn “Clown” Crahan spoke to NME to handle Weinberg’s departure from the band. Crahan stated: “So far as Jay goes, what folks must know is Jay didn’t depart the band, and what I need to say is that we’re shifting on. Just like the assertion stated, we’re selecting to do one thing completely different. This house that we’re at proper now could be a really, very particular house, thought of and generated principally by the OGs [longstanding members Corey Taylor, Mick Thomson, Sid Wilson and Jim Root].”
In the meantime, Slipknot have introduced a twenty fifth anniverary tour within the UK and Europe for this 12 months, which remains to be going forward regardless of any affirmation of a brand new drummer on the time of publishing. The band will go to cities equivalent to Amsterdam, Munich, Paris, London and Manchester – get tickets to the UK exhibits here for remaining Slipknot dates.