Clown talks Slipknot’s 25th anniversary tour and future: “We probably have several albums in us right now”

nme.com:

NME about Slipknot’s ongoing 25th anniversary tour, as well as plans for new material and on the long-mooted ‘lost’ album ‘Look Outside Your Window’.The tour – which sees them exclusively play tracks from their 1999 debut album – landed in the UK over the weekend and comes amid a big year of news for the metal icons.

Over the past 12 months, the band have welcomed former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande into the line-up and delighted fans by breaking out deep cuts and rarities for the first time in over two decades.“It’s been good to do this with newer members, but I do miss Joey [Jordison, late drummer] and Paul [Gray, late bassist],” Clown told NME. “They, along with Chris [Fehn, percussionist] and Craig [Jones, sampler], were a big part of that music, so it’s been a quarter of a century of friends who have come and gone.

Revisiting the debut album reminds me of what it felt like in the beginning, though. I was a bit of a naysayer about the idea at first, but the fact that we’ve been around this long and can now walk into these venues to play our first album, without having to put all the hits into it, has been mind-blowing.”He continued: “I don’t like to drudge up a lot of those feelings.

I work on being present more than anything, but for this tour I allowed myself to let it all in again. There are a lot of people who aren’t on the planet anymore and that makes it tough.