Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan has come around to working virtually with his bandmates when they can't be together in person. That's after Crahan spent several years, as he recently suggested, maintaining a willful ignorance about videoconferencing technology such as Zoom when it came to Slipknot recording sessions.
These days, though, the Slipknot co-founder, co-writer and percussionist has no problem at all collaborating over video call, despite his earlier reservations. That's how the musician put it to Metal Hammer in a quick interview from Tuesday (June 1) about the masked metal band's ongoing work on a studio album follow-up to 2019's