{"id":401725,"date":"2026-04-16T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:38:09","slug":"slipknots-shawn-clown-crahan-explains-how-lacuna-coils-cristina-scabbia-ended-up-on-look-outside-your-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401725\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipknot\u2019s Shawn \u201cClown\u201d Crahan explains how Lacuna Coil\u2019s Cristina Scabbia ended up on Look Outside Your Window"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slipknot<\/a> percussionist\/co-founder Shawn \u201cClown\u201d Crahan has explained how Lacuna Coil<\/a> vocalist Cristina Scabbia came to appear on two songs on the band\u2019s new album Look Outside Your Window.<\/p>\n

Talking to Rolling Stone<\/a>, the 56-year-old explains that Scabbia\u2019s relationship with Slipknot guitarist Jim Root, which lasted from 2004 to 2017, opened the door for her to sing on the long-delayed project. She lends her voice to the songs Cristina, a spoken-word track featuring an Italian poem she wrote, and Is Real.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJim and she were dating,\u201d says Crahan. \u201cShe\u2019s a talented artist, and she was up in the house. I had to go to Jim, like, \u2018Hey, what do you think about getting Cristina on?\u2019 And he said, \u2018Absolutely.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

He continues: \u201cThe first thing I did was make her write a poem, a letter of intent in Italian. I told her to make it about batteries that are dying that cannot be recharged. And she\u2019s like, \u2018OK.\u2019 I have the piece of paper in Italian, and she did her best to read it to me, but I\u2019ve never read it since then or memorized it. I just like to hear it the way it is. Jim and I were producing her, really making her get conviction. By the end, you could just feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crahan adds that one of his favourite moments of the making of Look Outside Your Window was when frontman Corey Taylor heard Scabbia\u2019s vocal tracks on Is Real.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had already sung on the song,\u201d he says. \u201cSo he thinks she\u2019s just doing the poem, but then she busts into that vocal, singing, going for it. I just remember Corey going back a little bit and he goes, \u2018OK.\u2019 He loved it, but it really surprised him in a good way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Look Outside Your Window will come out on Saturday, April 18, for Record Store Day. Four members of Slipknot \u2013 Crahan, Taylor, Root and DJ Sid Wilson \u2013 tracked the album during downtime in the sessions for 2008\u2019s All Hope Is Gone. Crahan explains that the band took the idea of setting up a side-studio, or an \u201copen lab\u201d, from producer Rick Rubin, who\u2019d worked with the band on 2004\u2019s Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses.<\/p>\n

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He adds that the open lab became a \u201cstaple\u201d after the All Hope Is Gone sessions, to the point that the band have 24 leftover tracks from 2019\u2019s We Are Not Your Kind.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat album\u2019s fascinating because we had 21 songs and 27 interludes,\u201d he says, \u201cand all the interludes were made in the open lab. In the end, we only used three of them on the album. So there\u2019s 24 other interludes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Look Outside Your Window was first announced in 2018 and endured delay after delay, due to Slipknot\u2019s other touring and recording commitments. It reached the point where, in 2024, Root admitted to Metal Hammer that he\u2019d more than once threatened to leak the album and get it over with.<\/p>\n

Slipknot have no tour dates on the slate for 2026 and are currently writing their next studio album, the follow-up to 2022\u2019s The End, So Far<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slipknot percussionist\/co-founder Shawn \u201cClown\u201d Crahan has explained how Lacuna Coil vocalist Cristina Scabbia came to appear on two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-401725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}