Slipknot percussionist and co-founder Shawn 'Clown' Crahan stated in an interview that the band will always use their trademark: masks.
On The Fred Minnick Show , Clown responds to a question about the possibility of Slipknot performing without their masks, and he replies, “There isn’t a day that goes by that every member doesn’t wish we didn’t have to wear those things. Especially since it was my idea, in the sense that I brought it to the table. And from what I know, maybe some of the guys think it’s the worst thing in the world. They went along with it because of our love for each other, our dream, and our brand, but secretly some people might be like, ‘I can’t believe I’m going to dedicate my life to this,’ while I’m just doing it with that. So, I never forced anyone. It feels like it’s what we want to do. And it helped, and it really is who we are.”
Clown continues to defend the band's brand, saying, “People ask me all the time, ‘Are you going to take off the mask?’ And I say, ‘Why do I need to do that?’ You’re only asking me because of the behavior. You’re only doing this because you have a hypothesis about all other artists, somehow or not, but I’m not part of that test, that field research. I’m ‘Clown’ in a band called Slipknot. We’re not your kind. We’re not like you. We’re not part of your hypothesis.”
“For me, it’s pure religion,” he adds. “It’s my life. And I can never understand something so personal because of laziness or stress or just the desire not to put it in anymore. I signed the agreement we made at the beginning, and there was never any [thought] about anything else. I really couldn’t understand us any other way. I would feel depressed, I would feel betrayed. I think that’s the difference. It’s the self-worth of the dream, of the art you create. It’s very, very, very precise, and we’re not going to stop ourselves from staying the course,” he concludes. Now that’s a valid argument!
Check out the videos below from Clown's interview on The Fred Minnick Show .
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