Speaking of Slipknot: Clown recently revealed that the band has been working on new music. You can check out both posts, complete with the pics, below.

“Sitting at those mirrored drums every night was boot camp, and I’m grateful for SJC Drums’ support throughout the process. I finally got to thank him profusely for this tank of a kit after the show. “Mike’s first time finding out what that drumset was built for was right before our first show together Knotfest 2014, as he and Lindsey Ciprari were seated next to Branden Steineckert and my mom. To this day, it blows me away that Mike was willing to journey down the rabbit hole - given ZERO information - and understand that something larger than explanation was happening.

“A testament to Mike and SJC’s trust and character: they beasted-out two copies of the touring The Gray Chapter kit: an ‘A-Rig’ all-mirrored finish on Maple shells and a ‘B-rig’ set of stained Bubinga shells. “I vividly remember calling Mike Ciprari after recording The Gray Chapter, and sort of non-explaining: ‘OK…something’s happening, and I can’t tell you about it…but…can you make two giant double-bass kits with five toms and snare drums and marching snares and gong drums by mid-October?….Yeah, no, I can’t tell you what it’s for….OK, yeah, it’s going to be awesome….OK, great.’ The three-piece I had painted wasn’t gonna cut it. “A year and a half later, when I first started playing with Slipknot, I knew that when we would eventually start playing live, I’d need a drumset that would match the intensity and complexity of the music we’d be playing. The story then continued in a separate post, which featured photos of the Slipknot kit itself: But these wouldn’t be the last drums I’d design with SJC. Such a trip to paint on a circular canvas hoping things would connect, mirror each other, make sense, and line up on the other side. It’s very punchy, for its smaller dimensions, and the addition of SJC’s ‘Butcher’ badges to color-match elements of the shell was a good call by Mike Ciprari. I love this drumset and can’t wait to play on it again someday. “The ‘PokéVomit’ kit, as I came to call it, had a brief touring life, and resides in Europe at the moment. They gave me three shells and a corner of their shop, and I made this… thing? 🥴 I drove up to the SJC Drums warehouse with some acrylic and spray paints. “In the summer of 2012, I took my first shot at designing my own drumset. Weinberg shared the lengthy story on Instagram, starting with a photo of the first kit he ever designed, two years before becoming entangled with the ‘Knot:

Slipknot drum set