During an interview with U.K.’s Metal Hammer magazine, Slipknot co-founder and percussionist M. Shawn Crahan (a.k.a. Clown) confirmed that there are plans to re-release the band’s self-titled debut album to coincide with the LP’s 25th anniversary.
He also revealed plans for the reissue. Crahan explained, “I’m fully involved with putting together a reissue package, because I’m the band caretaker. I’m the one that held everything over the years: all the DAT tapes from the [sound]board from all our first shows, all the videotapes from studio sessions at SR Audio and Indigo Ranch, different test mixes that we gave to other people that we said ‘No’ to at that time and that were never released, but are amazing. No one would have heard them 25 years ago, but now that the golden egg has been laid, and everyone knows it, you’re not going to listen to another mix and go, ‘This is better’, you’re just gonna go, ‘Wow, this is SLIPKNOT like this, 25 years ago.'”
Providing more details about the content of the expanded reissue of Slipknot, Crahan explained: “There’s new artwork, new photos from the time, there’s so much music that’s so punk rock from board tapes, there’s video documents, there’s a lot — audio, visuals, everything. It’s the best of all things Slipknot.”
