A brand new Funko POP! assortment for Iowan heavy metallic band Slipknot has been revealed, and it contains their not too long ago departed drummer Jay Weinberg.

As proven by current listings on Leisure Earth’s Funko POP! web site, a number of new Funko figures of assorted Slipknot members are up for pre-orders and are anticipated to go stay someday in March.

Included within the upcoming drop are Shawn “Clown” Crahan, guitarists Jim Root and Mick Thomson, bassist Alessandro “V-Man” Venturella, percussionist Michael Pfaff and former drummer Jay Weinberg.

Los nuevos Funko Pop! de Slipknot contarían todavía con Jay Weinberg entre las figuras 😱 pic.twitter.com/5panKOvipa

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The listings come simply two months after Slipknot introduced the shocking departure of Weinberg in early November 2023. In a now-deleted publish on social media, Slipknot introduced that they’d “determined to make a artistic determination, and to half methods with Jay”.

Jay Weinberg had been a member of the band since 2013, filling in for the late Joey Jordison. With Slipknot, Weinberg recorded three albums: 2014’s ‘.5: The Grey Chapter’, 2019’s ‘We Are Not Your Type’ and final 12 months’s ‘The Finish… So Far’.

The week after it was introduced that he had been ousted from the band, Jay Weinberg shared his personal assertion on social media, saying he was left “heartbroken and blindsided” by the choice. In his assertion, he revealed that he was knowledgeable of his departure from the band through cellphone name simply earlier than the band’s announcement went stay.

Slipknot have but to announce a brand new drummer, however frontman Corey Taylor has definitively dominated out Jeramie Kling, a former drummer for Venom Inc., from an inventory of potential replacements. Taylor’s declaration that Kling received’t be concerned in Slipknot comes after the drummer started teasing that he was stepping in for Weinberg.

In December, Shawn “Clown” Crahan spoke to NME to handle Weinberg’s departure from the band. Crahan mentioned: “So far as Jay goes, what individuals have to know is Jay didn’t depart the band, and what I need to say is that we’re shifting on. Just like the assertion mentioned, we’re selecting to do one thing totally different. This house that we’re at proper now could be a really, very particular house, thought of and generated largely by the OGs [longstanding members Corey Taylor, Mick Thomson, Sid Wilson and Jim Root].”

In the meantime, Slipknot have introduced a twenty fifth anniverary tour within the UK and Europe for this 12 months, which remains to be going forward regardless of any affirmation of a brand new drummer on the time of publishing. The band will go to cities reminiscent of Amsterdam, Munich, Paris, London and Manchester – get tickets to the UK reveals right here for remaining Slipknot dates.