
“And then they step back a little and realize that the world was upside down, and you needed music to get through. “I always have to stop and remind them of the temperature of the world at that time,” he told Apple Music.

Slipknot percussionist Clown (aka #6, government name Shawn Crahan) has noticed that fans (lovingly called “Maggots”) constantly praise 2001’s Iowa, but he encourages them to read the room.

Most of all, they responded with force to a world in crisis. For their sixth studio album, We Are Not Your Kind, the Iowans took their time-four years-working on their communication and brotherhood.

As aggressive and intense as Slipknot looks and sounds, their approach to creating music is as tender and nurturing as a doe’s love for her fawn.
