Slipknot percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan recently touched on the status of the long-shelved “Look Outside Your Window” album. Rather than a traditional release from the above-mentioned multi-platinum masked metallers, that effort instead stems from sessions involving a few key players of the Iowan band.
The writing and tracking for it took place back in 2008, alongside the “All Hope Is Gone” sessions. Described previously by those involved as having a ‘Radiohead‘ vibe, the effort was crafted by Clown, vocalist Corey Taylor, guitarist Jim Root and turntablist Sid Wilson.
Back in 2023, both Crahan and Taylor indicated the effort would finally make its way out in 2024. In fact, late last year, Crahan was confident enough to assert the following of it:
“It’s definitely arriving next year. You have my word. The art’s been done. It’s been mixed. It’s been mastered. It is definitely coming out in 2024 and it’s such a great album. Corey [Taylor] is my favorite singer ever, and you’ll never hear him sing in the same way as on this album, so it’s been worth holding it back. It’s such a different, timeless project.”
In a newly-published discussion with Vulture, Crahan briefly touched on the status of that effort, though he didn’t clarify if it will be making it out before the year’s end as he had previously planned. He stated:
“Someone recently brought up the album ‘Look Outside Your Window‘. It was a piece of art Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Sid Wilson, and myself created in 2008. We made it up the hill from the studio that we recorded All Hope Is Gone in, in Perry, Iowa.
No one believes that it even exists, or that it’s ever going to come out. I’ve always talked very highly of it and I’ve always said that you will never hear Corey Taylor sing like this. It’s just a whole different approach in my mind. Recently, I approved all the art. I’ve also worked really hard to get it mixed and mastered.”
