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This year Shawn “Clown” Crahan of Slipknot has been talking up a release of Look Outside Your Window, the album that’s been in the band’s vaults for 15 years. But that’s news to Corey Taylor.
That album was recorded at the same time as All Hope Is Gone by Crahan, Taylor, Sid Wilson and Jim Root. Taylor told NME that “Look Outside Your Window is Clown’s baby. Slipknot is Clown’s baby. I punch a clock and then I punch out.”
Taylor then revealed he has no idea what the album sounds like now. “It’s so funny, every year or two I get an email about Look Outside Your Window and how it’s coming out. I’m just as stoked as everybody else because, dude, I don’t even have a copy. I have a version from 10 years ago that I don’t even think is the same mix that they’re dealing with. I don’t even know the songs that are going on this album, that’s how out of the loop I am.”
Taylor also downplayed his role in making it. “I was a guest star on that album anyway, so your guess is as good as mine. It’s so fascinating that something that started as a demo has become the Holy Grail. If you only knew how that album came about and the pain it caused. I hope people dig it, but I honestly hope it never gets released because there are so many expectations about it now.”