“It isn’t Slipknot in any respect, not even shut”

Clown has spoken concerning the long-awaited ‘misplaced’ album ‘Look Exterior Your Window’, saying that it’s “not even shut” to sounding like Slipknot.

The document was recorded by the founding member and percussionist – actual identify Shawn Crahan – alongside Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson and Jim Root similtaneously they have been engaged on 2008’s ‘All Hope Is Gone’. Nevertheless, hopes of it being shared have remained unfulfilled and just one monitor from the periods has seen the sunshine of day: ‘All Hope Is Gone’ bonus monitor ‘Til We Die’.

Taylor, Root and Clown have all hinted on the launch in recent times, and final month the latter revealed to NME that the long-awaited LP was out of his arms and with administration for the ultimate steps.

Now, in a brand new interview with Knotfest, the founding member has revealed extra details about what followers can count on from the discharge, and confirmed that it’s under no circumstances a Slipknot-sounding document.

“It was by no means a Slipknot album. Not whereas it was occurring, not whereas I’ve held onto it for 10 years, and definitely not fuckin’ when it comes out,” he informed the outlet.

Sharing how they wrote the fabric whereas engaged on ‘All Hope Is Gone’, Clown recalled how the members can be interrupted throughout the course of and put the mission on maintain to complete up the 2008 launch. “We’d see them earlier than they’d see us… We have been already there jamming, and heard come any individual down the highway, and we’d be like, ‘Fucker’. It is perhaps the producer [Dave Fortman], after which we’d shoot ball rockets at him. It was a whole lot of enjoyable. And we simply did what it is best to do. We made music.”

“Now, if any of that music may have been Slipknot, it could have been introduced down [to the studio]. However that’s not the place Joey [Jordison, drummer] needed to go. It’s not the place Paul Grey [bassist] needed to go. It’s not the place Corey needed to go,” he added. “It’s not the place anybody needed to go. We had ‘All Hope Is Gone’. So I simply want folks to comprehend it’s not Slipknot in any respect, not even shut.”

He was additionally requested if any of the fabric was impressed by Grey. “It’s only a laborious one to clarify,” he started. “We now have a really shut pal who’s struggling, and it’s unpredictable. And for those who’re engaged on your self and it’s good to be strong, it’s laborious to rely upon unpredictability. So you find yourself shutting the door a little bit bit for love functions.”

The feedback consult with the years working as much as Grey’s loss of life in 2010, which noticed him battle with dependancy. The bassist had a historical past of dependancy to the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and was later discovered useless in a lodge in Iowa. His widow Brenna would go on to say her husband spent his last weeks in a “blur” of drug abuse, and an Iowa physician would later stand trial for prescribing him Xanax regardless of his earlier struggles.

When requested if Grey ever tried to become involved in ‘Look Exterior Your Window’, Clown responded: “That’s a tricky one. I don’t know, as a result of [my mindset was]: ‘If you wish to be part of this, you must be a sure method’. And perhaps he wasn’t being a sure method.

“So it’s straightforward for me to go, ‘No, you’re being the opposite method… That’s not what that is about. That is about simply stress-free and fucking being an artist with out all this stress. You place stress on,’,” he added. “However then once more, I didn’t inform anyone to be or to not be, you understand – you simply discovered your house. Paul’s one in every of my finest buddies.”

At time of writing, a precise launch date for ‘Look Exterior Your Window’ has not been shared, though it’s anticipated to be launched within the first half of 2025.

Hypothesis concerning the mission stems again to 2019, when Crahan mentioned that the band have been readying the discharge, and Corey Taylor later added that he “tried like hell to make these worlds come collectively” to finish the mission.

In 2020, Clown revealed to NME that the band nearly dropped it over Christmas 2019 however finally determined towards it as a result of they didn’t need it to intervene with their sixth studio album ‘We Are Not Your Form’.

Afterwards, Corey Taylor started teasing the discharge once more in August 2023, and Crahan mentioned it may lastly see the sunshine of day that very same yr, however has did not materialise to date.

The frontman then mentioned in a dialogue with NME that it was partly his fault that the document hadn’t been launched but. “I used to be speaking to Clown about it the opposite day and he goes, ‘One of many causes it hasn’t come out is since you hold placing shit out which retains conflicting with after I wish to launch it!’” he mentioned.

Extra just lately, November noticed guitarist Jim Root threaten to leak the album out of frustration, and Clown mirrored on feedback he made in a separate NME interview in 2023 – wherein he assured us the discharge can be coming this yr.Clarifying why it didn’t materialise final yr, he informed NME final month: “I did say it was going to be in 2024, and I gave it one of the best struggle that I may to make it this yr.”

As for the place the discharge is thus far, he added: “What I can inform you is that I confirmed Corey the ultimate art work two days in the past. It’s occurring, however sadly, due to Christmas and New 12 months and the best way enterprise works, I can’t slide it on this yr.

“However you could have my phrase, it’s out of my arms now. It’s being moved on, the cash has been spent and there’s a plan. The administration has it and it’s popping out.”

Elsewhere in that NME interview, the percussionist mirrored on the band’s current twenty fifth anniversary tour, in addition to plans for brand spanking new materials.

“Eloy [Casagrande, drummer] is within the band and there’s one thing occurring between the 9 of us proper now that may be very enjoyable,” he mentioned.  “Lots is floating round and we in all probability have a number of albums in us proper now. As for the way issues really feel, I’m being utterly sincere with you now, it’s like a cloud has left.”