The thriller of Slipknot‘s newest lineup addition seems to have been solved earlier than the group had an opportunity to even hit the stage. It appears a slip-up within the asset names on the just lately utilized teaser website for the band, youcantkillme.com, has spilled much more particulars than supposed.
Currently that website has served as a promotional asset for the masked metallic band’s twenty fifth anniversary of their 2x multi-platinum 1999 self-titled album. A throwback web site design mimicking components of early web sites from the group has just lately discovered a house on that area, albeit with a number of trendy components added in.
Nonetheless, recent teases tucked away on that website seem to haven’t solely confirmed the id of the band’s newest drummer, but additionally served up a possible clue into the id of the person who changed sampler/keyboardist, and so on. Craig “133” Jones final 12 months.
Per Reddit, every of the people featured in a teaser video hidden away on the positioning has pictures named in any case members of the group. Along with the already established members of the outfit, pictures referencing ‘Eloy‘ and ‘Jeff‘ are additionally featured.
Whereas Eloy is believed to verify the broadly rumored addition of ex-Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande to the outfit, the point out of Jeff has set followers of the band down an ‘rabbit’ gap of its personal. The present main principle (amongst Slipknot Redditors at the least) is that Jones‘ alternative may very well be Jeff Karnowski, who performed bass alongside Slipknot percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan within the band Soiled Little Rabbits.
One other alumni of Soiled Little Rabbits, Michael Pfaff, went on to exchange Chris Fehn in Slipknot again in 2019, remaining onboard to this present day as ‘Tortilla Man‘. Whereas there’s no cfirm proof but as to the id of ‘Jeff‘, the point out of Eloy appears to all however affirm his new function because the group’s newest drummer.
After all, there’s additionally the possibility that this may be a really intelligent little bit of misdirection. However given previous slip-ups by the Slipknot camp in concealing the id of their newest recruits, that appears considerably unlikely.
Earlier this month Youcantkillme.com confirmed up on a cryptic Slipknot billboard that popped up close to this month’s ‘Coachella Competition‘ in Indio, CA. If not earlier than, the weekend ought to result in some extra information, because the multi-platinum Iowan band are scheduled to play their first present since firing drummer Jay Weinberg final November.
For that return, they’ll be taking the stage at this 12 months’s ‘Sick New World‘ competition in Las Vegas, NV this Saturday, April twenty seventh.