Ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg is making a solo album
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Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg, who was fired from the band in November 2023 and is now a permanent member of Suicidal Tendencies, has checekd in with the following message:
"Though the phrase 'New Year’s resolution' has never really connected with me, I’ve always believed in the power of intention, and following through on setting manageable goals.
One of my ambitions for 2025 is to record more music in the studio — starting with my own material I’ve been writing for quite a while. Some of which I’ve been working away at since my early 20’s.
This photo (below) is from 2017, during a period of time when I had actually put together a group to play this music in a band setting, during a prolonged downtime from touring. It was awesome, and a great creative challenge. I haven’t touched these songs since then, until recently feeling inspiration to pick the guitar back up and kick this stuff around again. It’s been a fulfilling experience, and I’ll tell you — I’m starting to like where these songs are headed. It feels good to finally set the intention of releasing some of this new music in the coming year.
I’m so looking forward to all the onstage fun that’s ahead of us (Suicidal Tendencies supporting Metallica in stadiums; are you kidding me?) — and I’m equally pumped to spend considerable time in the studio, especially working on this collection of songs.
Stoked for you to hear them. When they’re ready, you’ll know."
Weinberg joined Slipknot in 2013, following the dismissal of late founding drummer Joey Jordison. He played on three of the nu metal titans’ albums – .5: The Grey Chapter (2014), We Are Not Your Kind (2019) and The End, So Far (2022) – before being dismissed in November 2023.
The band called the parting a “creative decision” in a statement, and Weinberg responded shortly afterwards saying he was “heartbroken and blindsided”.
Weinberg joined Suicidal Tendencies in March, and the next month his replacement in Slipknot was named as former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande.
In July, Weinberg said that he’d entered counselling to “process” his 10-year Slipknot tenure and his exit from the band.
“Before I speak on [my experiences with Slipknot], it’s important for me to do the right work of processing these events that you spend 10 years exclusively committed to one thing,” he told the One Life One Chance With Toby Morse podcast. “There’s a lot to process on the other side.”
