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“I told her to write a poem about batteries that are dying that cannot be recharged”: Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan explains how Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia ended up on Look Outside Your Window

Scabbia, who was in a relationship with ’Knot guitarist Jim Root from 2004 to 2017, lends her voice to two songs on the long-delayed project

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"The vibe is definitely Slipknot except no screams." Slipknot fan compares Look Outside Your Window album to Pink Floyd after getting early listen, claims Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia appears

Look Outside Your Window, a long-shelved project recorded in 2008, is due to come out on Record Store Day, April 18

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"I put the mask on and I immediately understood what it was like to disappear. I was gone and the real me had just shown up." How Slipknot's Clown was born in a shopping mall in the mid '80s

Shawn Crahan was just another anonymous American teenager until he found Clown

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"There were no rules; ideas could come from anywhere: subtle drum loops, bits of organ or abstract guitar noise, even samples of frogs or crickets." Long-awaited Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window is finally being released

Look Outside Your Window was recorded while Slipknot were in the studio making 2008's All Hope Is Gone album

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“A professor in my pocket who only wants to do what I ask it”: Slipknot’s Shawn Crahan says he’s been using AI “my whole life”

He says it’s cheaper than employing a human

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“It is a professor in my pocket who only wants to do what I ask it”: Slipknot’s Clown defends AI, breaking rank from other high-profile metal musicians

The Nine’s co-founder and percussionist asks, “What’s the difference between me pulling out my pocket producer… or me trying to get a famous producer that might not even work with me and could potentially cost me $150,000?”

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Slipknot tore Europe a new one during their tour this summer – this pro-shot footage from a Spanish festival proves it

The nine-piece played a particularly destructive show at Resurrection Fest in Viveiro, Spain in June

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“We’d jump off roofs or off bridges into water, knock the wind out of ourselves and almost die. We lived very aggressively because that’s who we were”: The story of Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. – the secret debut album that started Slipknot’s ascent

Before Corey Taylor and before the nu metal takeover, Slipknot launched their career with a DIY release that put the Des Moines scene on notice

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Slipknot to release 'lost' album Look Outside Your Window in 2026

Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan has dropped a huge hint the heavy metal outfit are set to release their delayed "lost" album Look Outside Your Window, which they recorded in 2008, next year.

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Long-delayed Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window will finally drop in 2026, Shawn “Clown” Crahan promises

The “experimental”, “melodic” album was recorded in 2008 and has been delayed again and again and again over the last seven years

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“I get into arguments with fans all the time about this. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just a leftover Stone Sour song.’ No, I wrote that for Slipknot!” How Slipknot made the greatest metal ballad of the 21st century

Inspired by Corey Taylor’s divorce and redefined after the death of Paul Gray, Snuff shows The Nine at their most beautifully vulnerable

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“There’s no special effects – there were kids falling through ceilings, flying through glass, jumping off roofs”: From kicking booze to an anarchic video shoot, the story of Slipknot’s biggest single, Duality

Slipknot were one of the biggest names of the nu metal era – then the lead single from their third album made them immortal

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Slipknot stream demo version of 1999 rager Me Inside, taken from 25th-anniversary reissue of debut album

The 18-legged wrecking machine are putting out a very expanded re-release of their propulsive debut album on September 5

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Slipknot's 25th anniversary re-release of their game-changing debut album includes a box set with 'blood-filled' vinyl and 40 previously-unreleased songs

Slipknot's six album box will feature 59 recordings including demos, live versions and rarities

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"We are missing one of our brothers." Watch Slipknot play to a massive crowd headlining Rock Am Ring festival without founding member Shawn Crahan

Watch pro-shot footage of Slipknot's headline performance for 90,000 maggots in Germany

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“Some of the guys in the band are like, ‘**** that, we’ll never play it!’” Watch Slipknot play one of their deepest cuts for the first time ever in Melbourne on Friday night

Metal's resident nine-piece went deep into the rarities bin for their set at Knotfest Melbourne last week

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“Two years ago, I was robbed in São Paulo. Two guys on motorcycles put a gun to my head”: Slipknot’s Eloy Casagrande explains the hidden meanings in his mask – including that gruesome bullet hole

The design also references Brazilian culture and Slipknot’s late founding drummer, Joey Jordison

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“I just want to roll into it with an energy like it’s all starting again”: Slipknot’s Clown teases new album (and Look Outside Your Window) coming soon

“We got a new album,” the percussionist and Slipknot co-founder declares

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Shawn 'Clown' Crahan says he "could care less" about the bands Slipknot have influenced – as his focus is on where The Nine go next

"We’re only getting more and more dangerous," says Clown as he reflects on band's all-conquering anniversary tour

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Slipknot's Clown: "We probably have several albums in us right now. It’s looking great."

Slipknot percussionist Shawn Crahan talks new music, debut album anniversary tour and backstage donkeys

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“I keep telling Clown that I’m just gonna throw it up on Youtube”: Slipknot guitarist Jim Root often threatens to leak long-delayed album Look Outside Your Window

Sick of waiting for Slipknot’s atmospheric rock album to come out? So is guitarist Jim Root!

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"People would vomit when they saw it": Shawn 'Clown' Crahan on the worst injury he ever sustained with Slipknot

Percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan reveals how he lost 25 percent of his arm and opens up about that mysterious Slipknot album from 2008 that's still yet to be released

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“I never wanted to be in a band, I just liked playing music. I was never a showman. If I didn’t have my mask on I wouldn’t be at the front of the stage”: An interview with Mick Thomson, Slipknot’s reluctant guitar hero

The pressures of fame, blond mullets, ignoring phone calls from rock stars – up close and personal with Slipknot guitarist Mick Thomson

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“I started playing $150 Ibanez guitars because onstage I would take damage… Clown used to use metal bars. We were very unsafe”: Mick Thomson reflects on 25 years of Slipknot’s incendiary debut – and what it was like to see his solos erased

If Slipknot's debut remains a true face-ripper all these years later maybe it is because they brought the chaos of the stage show into the studio. Thomson can remember it vividly, the gear, the danger, the risk to his guitars from stray iron pipes, and he wouldn't have it any…

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"We were nobodies but in that moment, it felt like we had a shot." How Slipknot overcame jealousy, substance abuse and trauma to become metal's most important band

25 years on from their self-titled debut, Slipknot look back at the years that helped them define 21st Century metal

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