Slipknot, Drummer Jay Weinberg Part Ways – Billboard

Slipknot is parting methods with drummer Jay Weinberg.

On Sunday (Nov. 5), the masked steel band took to its web site and social media accounts to announce that Weinberg — who joined Slipknot in 2014 following the departure of Joey Jordison a 12 months earlier — is now not part of the group.

“We want to thank Jay Weinberg for his dedication and keenness over the previous ten years,” the band wrote in a press release. “Nobody can ever substitute Joey Jordison’s authentic sound, type or vitality, however Jay honored Joey’s components and contributed to the final three albums and we, the band, and the followers respect it. However as ever, Slipknot is intent on evolving. The band has determined to make a artistic choice, and to half methods with Jay. We want Jay all the very best and are very excited for what the longer term holds.”

Throughout his time with Slipknot, Weinberg — the son of longtime Bruce Springsteen & the E Road Band drummer Max Weinberg — performed on the exhausting rock band’s albums .5: The Grey Chapter (2014), We Are Not Your Sort (2019) and The Finish, So Far (2022).

Weinberg had not publicly commented on his departure from Slipknot as of press time.

The 33-year-old drummer joined Slipknot in 2014 following the departure of founding drummer Jordison, who shaped the group in 1995 together with percussionist Shawn Crahan and the band’s late bass participant Paul Grey, who died in 2010.

Slipknot introduced in December 2013 that Jordison and the group have been “parting methods” after almost 20 years collectively, although the drummer later mentioned in interviews that he was fired. In 2016, Jordison revealed that his exit from Slipknot coincided together with his getting sick with a illness known as transverse myelitis and claimed that his bandmates confused his medical points with a substance abuse drawback. He died in 2021 at age 46.

See Slipknot’s announcement about Weinberg’s departure on Instagram under.