Clown promises that Slipknot’s unreleased 2008 album Look Outside Your Window “will come out soon”

In a new Reddit AMA, Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan has promised that the band’s long-lost Look Outside Your Window album “will come out soon”.

The 2008 record – a project recorded by Clown, Sid Wilson, Jim Root and Corey Taylor during the All Hope Is Gone sessions – has been spoken about and teased for many years now, but the percussionist reasons it’s “timeless” and therefore its release date hasn’t especially mattered. Nevertheless, it’s on its way…

“The only reason Look Outside Your Window has not come into this reality is because it is a timeless album that allows it to be presented at anytime,” Clown writes. “Up until now things we've been doing has been taking priority. It has to come out, I promise it will come out soon.”

Indeed, in 2020 Corey also described Look Outside Your Window as timeless, and “a very unique art-piece on its own”.

“It’s sort of timeless in my opinion, so I try not to worry about it too much,” he said. “I’ve waited this long for it to be right and it just never has. We were going to release it way early on this album cycle [for We Are Not Your Kind], but this one takes precedence. It’s not meant to be confused or watered down for marketing purposes. It’s really just another piece of the puzzle and the imagination that’s missing. People might really need it.”

Elsewhere in the Q&A last night, Clown was also asked about Slipknot’s new song Long May You Die and its potential release date, to which he responded: “I don’t have an honest answer for you. Keep asking for it.”

In other Slipknot news, yesterday the band uploaded an official HD music video for Surfacing – watch that below:

Catch Slipknot at the following dates later this year:

December

5 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome
6 Dortmund, Germany – Westfalenhalle
8 Stuttgart, Germany – Schleyerhalle
9 Leipzig, Germany – Quarterback Immobilien Arena
11 Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion
12 Paris, France – Accorhotel Arena
14 Leeds, UK – First Direct Arena
15 Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
17 Manchester, UK – Co-op Live Arena
18 Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena
20 London, UK – The O2
21 London, UK – The O2

Get your tickets now.

Read this: “Thoroughly unpleasant and truly unforgettable”: Our original 1999 review of Slipknot’s debut album