Slipknot percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan has dismissed any talk of the band celebrating the tenth anniversary of their debut album next year as "a bunch of marketing crap."
The band's recently released fourth studio album All Hope is Gone topped the US Billboard cards on the week of its release in August. The band are touring at the moment, and next June sees them mark ten years since the release of their self-titled full-length debut.
Speaking to stv's John Kilbride backstage at Glasgow's SECC shortly before going on stage on Monday December 8, Shawn, the notorious band's clown masked percussionist, said: "A lot of people have been talking about 10 years, it doesn't mean s**t to me. I want to know what you're going to do for me for making it to ten years?
"That's ten years away from my children to do all this for everybody else I don't think we have to do anything special, it doen't mean s**t, just sounds like a bunch of marketing crap: 'Ten years...let's put out something because of that.'
"What difference does it make?
"I'll be here on the 11th year, I'll be here on the 12th year, I'm not married to this band, I'm in this band.
"There's talk about stuff but it's not like some big thing that we're worried about. We tour, we play, this is what we do.So if anything does come out it will be because of the label or people that need to make money or market off words like '10 years" to us...it feels like 20 years!"
Note - full video interview contains strong language
