Slipknot have printed that their new drummer is certainly former Sepultura member Eloy Casagrande.
The Iowan nu steel legends showed their latest addition’s id this morning (April 30) in an Instagram put up that showcases their new outfits and mask.
Casagrande’s non-public Instagram account is tagged within the picture, along the accounts of vocalist Corey Taylor, percussionist/co-founder Shawn “Clown” Crahan and the opposite recognized participants of the band.
Nonetheless unnamed is Slipknot’s present keyboardist, who joined the band in June 2023 to exchange longtime member Craig Jones.
Casagrande joined Slipknot in February, changing former drummer Jay Weinberg following Weinberg’s dismissal in November 2023.
The band defined that the break up with Weinberg was once an inventive choice in a since-deleted social media remark.
Weinberg spoke back in a remark of his personal, pronouncing that he was once “heartbroken and blindsided” by means of the parting.
Weinberg now drums for US thrash steel workforce Suicidal Inclinations.
Casagrande unexpectedly give up Sepultura in February, in a while prior to rehearsals for the Brazilian excessive steel veterans’ ongoing farewell excursion.
“February sixth, a couple of days previous to the primary practice session, drummer Eloy Casagrande knowledgeable the band that he was once leaving Sepultura to pursue a occupation in every other mission,” the band wrote in a remark.
The timing led many fanatics to take a position that the opposite mission Casagrande was once becoming a member of was once Slipknot.
The theory heated up in March, when Slipknot posted a photograph of a damaged drum stick on Instagram, signalling that they’d began to rehearse with a brand new drummer.
Eagle-eyed customers spotted that the drum stick was once Promark-branded. Casagrande is an envoy for Promark sticks.
Slipknot performed their first display with Casagrande on April 25, additionally debuting their new mask and a setlist that includes 5 songs from their 1999 self-titled debut album.
The band then carried out on the Ill New International pageant in Las Vegas on April 27.
Slipknot will embark on a Eu excursion in December to have a good time the twenty fifth anniversary in their debut, and Crahan has stated that the band will carry out the album in complete.
Toughen will come from Scottish groove/melodeath collective Bleed From Inside of.
Slipknot will even play a handful of North American pageant dates this yr, together with a headline set at Knotfest Iowa in September, which can be their first display of their house state since 2021.
For the entire checklist of Slipknot reside displays, see under.
Slipknot 2024 excursion dates:
Might 12: Daytona Seashore Welcome To Rockville, FL
Might 19: Columbus Sonic Temple Competition, OH
Sep 21: Des Moines Water Works Park, IA
Dec 05: Amsterdam Ziggo Dome, Netherlands
Dec 06: Dortmund Westfalenhalle, Germany
Dec 08: Stuttgart Schleyerhalle, Germany
Dec 90: Leipzig Quarterback Immobilien Enviornment, Germany
Dec 11: Zurich Hallenstadion, Switzerland
Dec 12: Paris Accorhotel Enviornment, France
Dec 14: Leeds First Direct Enviornment, UK
Dec 15: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UK
Dec 17: Manchester Co-op Are living Enviornment, UK
Dec 18: Birmingham Utilita Enviornment, UK
Dec 20: London O2 Enviornment, UK
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