Slipknot Will Release a 25th Anniversary Edition of Their Debut Album

I know this is a relatively unknown fact, but Slipknot‘s self-titled debut album came out 25 years ago. How could you know that, other than the fact that the band’s been touring non-stop on the back of that anniversary and they’ve done tons of shit to remind everyone that the album’s a quarter century old.

But just in case you forgot, they’re apparently going to remind you at least one more time before the year is through. In a recent interview with Metal Hammer, Slipknot percussionist M. Shawn Crahan revealed that they’ll be re-releasing the aforementioned album.

“I’m fully involved with putting together a reissue package, because I’m the band caretaker. I’m the one that held everything over the years: all the DAT tapes from the [sound]board from all our first shows, all the videotapes from studio sessions at SR Audio and Indigo Ranch, different test mixes that we gave to other people that we said ‘No’ to at that time and that were never released, but are amazing.

“They would never have been listened to 25 years ago, but now that the golden egg has been laid, and everyone knows it, you’re not going to listen to another mix and go, ‘This is better’, you’re just gonna go, ‘Wow, this is Slipknot like this, 25 years ago.’”

You gotta give it up to Crahan and his foresight regarding the safekeeping of the band’s past. Crahan also said that he’s working to make the reissue special for long-time fans. In addition to the album itself, the new re-release will come with “new artwork, new photos from the time, there’s so much music that’s so punk rock from board tapes, there’s video documents, there’s a lot — audio, visuals, everything.”

If all of that sounds like something you’d want to add to your collection, you’re going to have to wait a bit for more information. There’s no concrete release date, nor do we know anything about its price or available formats. But can be said about this re-release is it’s going to be something every Slipknot fan’s gonna want to get a hold of.

You can read the entirety of the Metal Hammer interview with M. Shawn Crahan in the magazine’s latest issue.