Why Slipknot's V-Man Lived With Clown While Making New Album

Slipknot bassist Alessandro “V-Man” Venturella lately defined why he lived with founding Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan whereas the group labored on their newest album, The End, So Far.

The two grew to become full-time roommates as a result of journey restrictions surrounding the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which halted a lot worldwide journey in 2020. V-Man, who’s British, usually lives throughout the pond from his American bandmates in Slipknot.

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“The hardest part was visa issues,” V-Man tells Everblack Podcast. “They locked down America [when the pandemic started]. Also, you couldn’t leave England [without] a work permit. You had to have written — there was some sort of written document that had to say that you needed to leave for work. That was the only way you could leave the country.” (by way of Blabbermouth)

The Slipknot bassist continues, “Then, there was obviously the testing and stuff. But there was a good [few] months of — no one was going anywhere. Airports were shut, the full works.”

V-Man provides, “I think once it started to kind of ease up a little bit, and people had high-profile jobs — like business around the world — people started moving around. I remember the first plane I managed to get on, it was just me [Laughs]. And there was like, six people scattered around. It was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. It was nuts. The airport was dead. There was like, four people in it. It was like, what’s that movie? 28 Days Later. It was like that.”

The rocker explains, “Once I got the visa thing sorted, luckily, that was it. I went and lived at Clown’s house for six months, I think. It was great. His wife’s amazing. She’d be cooking dinners for everyone. And then other bandmembers would come in and out. Jay [Weinberg, drums] popped in and out, Jim [Root, guitar] popped in and out. I couldn’t just jump on a plane back and forth every week, so I had to stay there.”

Slipknot launched The End, So Far in September. The Iowan masked metallic band will head to Europe for gigs subsequent yr. Get Slipknot live performance tickets right here.

See V-Man speak concerning the journey and residing points at 6:00 beneath.

The Everblack Podcast [talks] to Slipknot bass participant Alessandro ‘V-Man’ Venturella about their new album, ‘The End, So Far,’ the writing course of throughout lockdowns and musical route, his work as a guitar tech for different massive bands, going from crew to headliner on the last-ever Soundwave Festival, his reminiscences of seeing Slipknot for the primary time and extra!