Slipknot play down debut album 10th anniversary

Slipknot percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan has dismissed any talk of the band celebrating the tenth anniversary of their debut album next year as "a bunch of marketing crap."

The band's recently released fourth studio album All Hope is Gone topped the US Billboard cards on the week of its release in August. The band are touring at the moment, and next June sees them mark ten years since the release of their self-titled full-length debut.

Speaking to stv's John Kilbride backstage at Glasgow's SECC shortly before going on stage on Monday December 8, Shawn, the notorious band's clown masked percussionist, said: "A lot of people have been talking about 10 years, it doesn't mean s**t to me. I want to know what you're going to do for me for making it to ten years?
Slipknot percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan says it is not something that they are worried about.

"That's ten years away from my children to do all this for everybody else I don't think we have to do anything special, it doen't mean s**t, just sounds like a bunch of marketing crap: 'Ten years...let's put out something because of that.'

"What difference does it make?

"I'll be here on the 11th year, I'll be here on the 12th year, I'm not married to this band, I'm in this band.


Watch the full interview in video here


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John Kilbride    December 15, 2008