2024 marks the 25th anniversary of Slipknot’s debut self-titled record. That’s pretty Sic. The band’s career has skyrocketed within the last twenty-five years with seven full-length albums released. For those who have been there since the beginning for these giants, it’s still crazy to think how fast time has flown and how far they’ve come since their 1999 phenomenal debut. Slipknot co-founder and percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan agrees on the overall significance of this in metal history. In a recent interview with Kerrang, Clown discussed the band’s upcoming Europe & UK tour, celebrating the record by likely performing it live in its entirety.
He expressed:
“Are you joking right now? You’re talking about the anniversary of one of the greatest metal albums to ever release in the thought process known as reality, and you think this 54-year-old man who just told you ‘I’m going out the way I came in’, you think for one moment that this album isn’t going to be played in its entirety in front of, like, a hundred people, 200 people, 300 people, 50,000 people. I’m not going to live forever, man. Neither is everybody else. Things are changing very quickly. I ain’t got no more time to fuck around. That is the vehicle of my soul, and the remembrance, the memories, the heartache of lost brothers and even sisters — all these people that are gone and we’re still doing it. Yeah, we’re going to play that album from beginning to end. But I sure as hell am not going to just succumb to the corporate world and give all those people what they want. They’re going to get it. But you know what we’re going to get? We’re going to have fun, too. So that means small shows and you won’t know until you hear it. And if you heard it, you’re already too late and you’re not going to see it. So you better open up your soul, because then you’ll feel it and you won’t have to hear it, because I’m being very serious.”
