In a brand new podcast interview with KAOSIS frontman Xen, authentic SLIPKNOT singer Anders Colsefni was requested if he can be open to recording a brand new music together with his former band if he was approached about it. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, completely. In the event that they contacted me and needed me to do one thing, yeah, why not?”

Requested to call his favourite SLIPKNOT music since he exited the group, Anders mentioned: “To be sincere with you, I am gonna say ‘Wait And Bleed’, the very first one which hit proper after I left. And it is the one which I might have thought that I might have hated probably the most, simply due to my circumstances. However that music, after I heard it, I am, like, ‘That is it. I could not have executed that like that. So kudos to you, guys.’ So ‘Wait And Bleed’.”

This previous June, it was introduced that Colsefni will carry out SLIPKNOT‘s independently launched debut effort “Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.” in full on tour this 12 months.

Anders will group up with former MUSHROOMHEAD vocalist Waylon Reavis for the co-headline “Numetal Mayhem” trek, set to happen in Australia and New Zealand in October.

Requested by Xen if there are any plans to take the tour to different elements of the world, together with the U.S. and Europe, Anders mentioned: “Nothing deliberate but, however I am not gonna say nothing will occur as a result of I actually hope one thing will.”

A short while after the “Numetal Mayhem” tour announcement, SLIPKNOT‘s longtime singer Corey Taylor took to his Twitter to share a Kerrang! article in regards to the trek, and he wrote in an accompanying message: “Actually want I may very well be there to see these exhibits, however I do know @anderscolsefni goes to crush them.”

Colsefni later launched a press release to BLABBERMOUTH.NET through which he vowed to carry out the “Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.” materials with the “similar stage of aggression and volatility” as he did when the songs had been first written whereas acknowledging that he has grown as a singer and performer since his early days with SLIPKNOT.

Anders mentioned: “As lots of you might be conscious, I’m not massive on social media or speaking within the press however with the rising quantity of curiosity in my forthcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand, I really feel it’s time to concern a press release.

“My performances as a part of this tour are devoted to my fallen brothers, [late SLIPKNOT members] Joey [Jordison, drums] and Paul [Gray, bass]. I miss you each dearly. I might be drawing on you each to ship these songs to our followers with the identical stage of aggression and volatility that we did collectively 27 years in the past.

“I would wish to acknowledge the huge outpouring of help from my followers everywhere in the world. It has been extraordinarily touching to understand how a lot religion you’ve gotten had in me for all these years. I’ll do you all proud.

“I’ll endeavor to maintain the set as genuine to the feelings and sentiments of which they’re written however I’ll ship them as I’m now, not the child I as soon as was. Since these songs had been written virtually three many years in the past, I’ve had many nice alternatives in numerous bands to hone my vocal talents, and stagecraft and to develop as an individual.

“In response to Corey‘s effectively needs I would wish to say ‘Thanks’. It could come as a shock to many maggots, however it’s truly Corey who I’ve maintained an ongoing friendship since my departure from the band. There has solely ever been a kinship between us. I contemplate Corey a real brother and he has at all times had my again, and I his.

“Thanks all once more on your adoration and help and I stay up for delivering Australasia ‘Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.’ for the primary time ever. Lengthy stay the KNOT.”

Colsefni, Grey, Jordison and Shawn “Clown” Crahan first carried out beneath the identify SLIPKNOT in April 1996 on the Safari Membership in Des Moines. Not lengthy after, Mick Thomson and Craig Jones joined the band and the trajectory of contemporary steel was modified eternally.

SLIPKNOT erupted on the native steel scene and by October 1996 they delivered “Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.”. This LP grew to become the inspiration of what in now SLIPKNOT‘s twenty-five-year legacy.

Anders will ship your entire “Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.” report from begin to end. That is the primary time this report has been heard stay in 27 years and it might be the one time it’s going to ever get performed stay once more.

In his authentic assertion saying the tour, Colsefni mentioned: “Ever since Xen [KAOSIS singer] referred to as me and let me know we had been on for the tour, I’ve been coaching day by day, not simply vocals however kickboxing and cardio. I’m match, sturdy and able to tear Australasia aside! I’m psyched to drag this report out of the crypt and ship it once more… in all probability for the final time ever.”

Anders has compiled a heavy-as-hell backing band he has dubbed THE FEEDERS.

Again in 2019, Colsefni mentioned that he had no real interest in rejoining SLIPKNOT.

The prospect of Anders returning to SLIPKNOT was broached by Taylor after a fan prompt on Twitter that SLIPKNOT convey again Anders because the alternative for the then-recently departed percussionist Chris Fehn. Corey replied: “Fuck I might LOVE that.”

On March 23, 2019, Colsefni shot down the opportunity of a renewed collaboration together with his former bandmates, writing on his Fb web page: “I am going to remove the uncomfortable conversations that SLIPKNOT may need concerning myself and reported band emptiness by saying: I’ll NOT be rejoining SLIPKNOT.

“It’s definitely not for any animosity I’ve. I merely do not know these guys anymore. I typically give these I do not know the advantage of the doubt.

“I’ve spent the final 27 years (by way of every band) working concrete development to help my household however nonetheless enable time for my ‘actual job.’

“After a few years of failed bands, failed marriages, and loads of others, I’ve settled into an occupation that I can retire from. I am gonna want the bennies — my physique goes to shit!

“As a lot as I had dreamed of rejoining my creation (shut up — I do know it is a totally different band now!),it’s not sufficient of a dream anymore to threat being homeless when the tour is over!”

Colsefni, one of many founding members of SLIPKNOT alongside percussionist Shawn “The Clown” Crahan, contributed lead vocals to “Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.”. A short while after leaving the band the next 12 months, Anders went on to type PAINFACE, which later developed into ON A PALE HORSE.

In a 2011 interview with Dose Of Steel, Colsefni was requested in regards to the causes for his departure from SLIPKNOT. He defined: “Corey was a a lot better singer than I, in order that they introduced Corey in to 50/50 the vocals with me (with him being the precise frontman) whereas I additionally continued with the drums and percussion. Corey would do the clear singing and I used to be so as to add the screaming and yelling. I attempted for 2 months, however after the shock of all this, I could not ‘really feel it’ anymore. I simply felt like an fool flopping round onstage with a ridiculous outfit, appearing like a caveman. Despair. So, I shaved my eyebrows off earlier than my final present, and introduced I used to be executed after we performed ‘Heartache And A Pair of Scissors’ for the closing tune.”

Requested what he thinks about his former bandmates labeling “Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.” only a demo, he mentioned “If the band didn’t get a report deal, ‘Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.’ would have been their first official launch. Since they’d progressed musically since ‘Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.’ (or steadied the craziness a bit) and obtained a pleasant contract advance, they selected the fitting factor and began recent. Each album I’ve ever been on has technically been a ‘demo,’ so it does not trouble me a bit. Even the full-length ones. ‘Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.’ has change into considerably legendary, even with its flaws, so it was one hell of a demo.”

Jordinson died “peacefully in his sleep” in July 2021 of an unspecified trigger. He was 46 years previous.

SLIPKNOT introduced its break up with Jordison in December 2013 however didn’t disclose the explanations for his exit. The drummer subsequently issued a press release saying that he didn’t stop the group.

Grey was discovered lifeless in Might 2010 after overdosing on medicine in a lodge room in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, the place he and SLIPKNOT had been primarily based.

Anders Colsefni picture courtesy of “The Limitless” video / Ravenscape Picture And Design