SLIPKNOT’s CLOWN On ‘Look Outside Your Window’ Album: ‘Management Has It And It Is Coming Out’

SLIPKNOT percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan recently spoke with NME during the band’s European and UK tour this month. During the conversation, Crahan expressed greater confidence than ever that the band’s long-delayed Look Outside Your Window album will finally see a release in 2025.

Crahan revealed six years ago that the band secretly recorded another album during the All Hope Is Gone sessions. Despite repeated promises of a release, the album has yet to materialize, leaving fans frustrated.

Recorded in 2008 alongside All Hope Is Gone, this project featuring Clown, Sid Wilson, Jim Root, and Corey Taylor has been a source of speculation for years. Clown assures fans that the album’s timeless quality makes the wait worthwhile, and that its release is imminent.

When NME noted that Clown had previously claimed the album would arrive in 2024, following several missed release windows, he responded with a new update: “I did say it was going to be in 2024, and I gave it the best fight that I could to make it this year. What I can tell you is that I showed Corey the final artwork two days ago. It is happening, but unfortunately, because of Christmas and New Year and the way business works, I can’t slide it in this year. But you have my word, it’s out of my hands now. It’s being moved on, the money has been spent and there is a plan. The management has it and it is coming out.

“I’m really pleased about it and happy to finally be rid of it! What’s nice though is that it isn’t a hype thing, it’s just something we did while we were doing other SLIPKNOT albums,” he added. “It was a very honest action to make music that wasn’t SLIPKNOT, but utilized the skills of guys with no rules. I don’t know if it’s ‘good’, but I know that I love it. I make music for myself, but I hope that the people who waited and waited and waited think it was worth it too.”