**UPDATE**: SLIPKNOT‘s social media publish asserting Jay Weinberg‘s departure has been faraway from the entire band’s official platforms.

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SLIPKNOT has parted methods with longtime drummer Jay Weinberg.

Earlier immediately (Sunday, November 5), the band launched the next assertion by way of social media: “We want to thank Jay Weinberg for his dedication and keenness over the previous ten years. Nobody can ever change Joey Jordison‘s authentic sound, type or power, however Jay honored Joey‘s components and contributed to the final three albums and we, the band, and the followers recognize it. However as ever, SLIPKNOT is intent on evolving. The band has determined to make a inventive determination, and to half methods with Jay. We want Jay all one of the best and are very excited for what the longer term holds.”

Weinberg performed his ultimate present with SLIPKNOT this previous Friday (November 3) on the Hell & Heaven competition in Toluca, Mexico. Fan-filmed video of the live performance might be seen beneath.

The now-33-year-old Jay found SLIPKNOT when he was a pre-teen, by his father Max, of Bruce Springsteen‘s E STREET BAND, and chief of the home band on Conan O’Brien‘s speak present. He was hooked instantly and was an enormous fan of SLIPKNOT by the point he was invited to Los Angeles to check out as substitute for Joey Jordison in 2013.

For the primary few months after the discharge of 2014’s “.5: The Grey Chapter”, the members of SLIPKNOT had declined to call the musicians who have been enjoying drums and bass on their tour, even though their identities have been revealed as Weinberg and bassist Alessandro “Vman” Venturella by a disgruntled former drumtech for SLIPKNOT who posted an image of a backstage name sheet on Instagram.

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

Jordison handed away “peacefully in his sleep” in July 2021 of an unspecified trigger. He was 46 years outdated.

Requested in a 2016 interview with Music Radar how respectful he felt he needed to be to Joey‘s legacy, and the way a lot he felt he was free to make it his personal, Weinberg mentioned: “Having an enormous respect for the band’s music, having an enormous respect for Joey Jordison as an individual and as a participant, I understood my position in needing to ship what this band wants, and understanding what Joey delivered to the desk, and having this band’s legacy proceed in the best way that the Maggots, the followers of the band, respect, and the 9 of us feeling pleased with the music we’re creating.

“In fact, the historical past of the band feeds into what I consider the band, however when it got here time to provide you with new materials, new songs, I did not take into consideration Joey Jordison one bit,” he continued. “And I really feel it will be disrespectful to do this, and the band needed me to be fully myself. As a result of why would I wish to be Joey Jordison, why would I attempt to mimic what he is achieved?

“Joey‘s one of many biggest drummers we have ever had the privilege of witnessing. In order a fan of the band and somebody who respects the folks and the music, I did not wish to are available and attempt to be a copycat. That is not attention-grabbing to me, that is not attention-grabbing to the band and it will be insulting to everybody concerned, together with the followers.”

In a Might 2023 interview with Danny Wimmer Presents‘s “Energy Hour”, Jay mirrored on his first live performance with SLIPKNOT, which occurred in October 2014 on the Knotfest in San Bernardino, California. He mentioned: “I had joined the band a couple of 12 months earlier than our first present collectively, so we made a document and we have been jamming. And we had that sort of a runway earlier than our first present. However yeah, man, nothing — I’ve mentioned it earlier than, however it’s like nothing…. I might have had years and years and years to organize for my first SLIPKNOT present. There was really nothing that would put together for that first second when the curtain goes up, we’re in our masks, we’re in our outfits, everyone’s there. That was just like the turnkey second. Particularly after a 12 months of understanding. I am ready for that second, what’s gonna occur for this primary present? What’s it going to scent like? What’s it gonna really feel like? All these things, and simply making an attempt to finest put together myself for that second. And there was no getting ready for that second. It actually was, as the blokes had described to me, each evening is, like, you are simply dropped out of an airplane and also you simply need to determine it out. And in order that first evening actually was particular in that regard. And I really feel like we have simply constructed it over the past 10 years.”

Previous to becoming a member of SLIPKNOT, Weinberg was a member of AGAINST ME!, having performed with the Florida-based act from November 2010 till December 2012.

Weinberg joined AGAINST ME! shortly after he was ousted from MADBALL and following the departure of AGAINST ME!‘s earlier sticksman, George Rebelo.

In Might 2013, Weinberg stuffed in for KVELERTAK drummer Kjetil Gjermundrod through the band’s North American tour as a result of Gjermundrod needed to bow out of the run after experiencing important ache in his arm.

This previous June, SLIPKNOT introduced the addition of a brand new keyboardist, two weeks after the band revealed the departure of longtime member Craig Jones.

SLIPKNOT performed its first present with its new thriller member on June 7 on the Nova Rock competition in Austria. The live performance occurred hours after the band introduced in a social media publish that it had parted methods with Jones.

No purpose was given for Jones‘s departure from SLIPKNOT.