Slipknot have announced the departure of long-time drummer Jay Weinberg. The band revealed they are parting ways with Weinberg, posting the following message on their social media channels this morning. The message has since been deleted.
“We would like to thank Jay Weinberg for his dedication and passion over the past ten years. No one can ever replace Joey Jordison’s original sound, style or energy, but Jay honored Joey’s parts and contributed to the last three albums and we, the band, and the fans appreciate it. But as ever, slipknot is intent on evolving. The band has decided to make a creative decision and to part ways with Jay. We wish Jay all the best and are very excited for what the future holds.”
Weinberg who replaced former drummer, the late Joey Jordison in 2014 has yet to respond to his apparent removal from the band.
If this ends the partnership between Weinberg and Slipknot, it will end one of the metal scene's fairytales. Weinberg, the son of E-Street band drummer Max Weinberg was a die-hard fan of the band prior to being tapped to join them post Jordison's departure.
Weinberg was a member of the band for just under a decade, keeping Jordison's spirit alive while contributing his own percussive flair on three Slipknot full-lengths, 5: The Gray Chapter, All Out Life and The End, So Far.
Weinberg's final show with Slipknot occurred on Friday night at Hell & Heaven Metal Fest in Mexico.
Weinberg's departure seems eerily similar to the recent exit of Craig Jones. Jones had been a member of the Iowa metal collective for 27 years before the band took to social media and announced his departure in a since-deleted message that read To our fans, Slipknot is announcing that we have parted ways with Craig Jones. We wish Jones all the best for the future."
Whatever the future holds for the rest of Slipknot, it appears 2022's The End, So Far. is the final recording that either Jones or Weinberg will contribute to.
Produced collaboratively by Joe Baressi (Queens Of The Stone Age, Soundgarden, Avenged Sevenfold, Parkway Drive) and Slipknot, The End, So Far is the follow-up to Slipknot’s 2019 We Are Not Your Kind which marked the band’s third consecutive #1 on the ARIA album chart.
To celebrate the widely anticipated release we caught up with Slipknot bass player, Alessandro 'V-Man' Venturella for a discussion about all things The End, So Far, if you haven't already, head on over and give it a read.
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