SLIPKNOT's CLOWN Says PAUL GRAY's Songwriting Contributions Will Be Heard On Band's Next Album

September 22, 2012

In a recent interview Artisan News, SLIPKNOT co-founder, conceptualist and percussionist Shawn M. Crahan (a.k.a. Clown) confirmed that late SLIPKNOT bassist Paul Gray's songwriting contributions will be heard on the band's next album.

"There are songs that he's written that will be a part of the next record," Crahan said in the video interview posted below. "We're all going to have to think like him, and he'll be there. He'll be there; there's no way [that] Paul Gray [will not be] a part of anything that we do for the rest of our career."

A Des Moines, Iowa doctor was charged on September 5 with involuntary manslaughter because he allegedly over-prescribed painkillers to eight of his patients — one of whom was Gray, who died of a drug overdose in May 2010.

Gray was found dead at the age of 38 in a hotel room outside Des Moines, surrounded by drug paraphernalia. His death was ruled an accidental overdose of morphine and fentanyl, with his autopsy showing that Gray also suffered from significant heart disease.

Gray's widow, Brenna, revealed in an April 2011 interview with Revolver that her husband had agreed to get help for his drug problem just one day before he died on May 24, 2010.

After a lengthy hiatus, SLIPKNOT resumed touring last year, with Donnie Steele playing bass live. The band intends to enter a recording studio sometime in 2013 to begin work on its first album without Gray.

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