Man it’s been a weekend of highs and lows. While we were reveling at the inaugural Sonic Temple in Columbus, OH, talking with our rockstar friends and enjoying the music & art, we get the devastating news that Clown‘s daughter has passed away at the age of 22.
Gabrielle Crahan, the 22-year-old daughter of Slipknot percussionist and co-founder M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan, passed away on Saturday, May 18th. No cause of death has been revealed.
Shawn Crahan announced his daughter’s passing in a social media post on Sunday, May 19th, writing, “It is with a broken heart, and from a place of the deepest pain, that I have to inform all of you that my youngest daughter, Gabrielle, passed away yesterday . . . She was 22 years old. Funeral arrangements will be forthcoming. My family and I ask that our privacy be respected moving forward. Thank you.”
Slipknot singer Corey Taylor offered his condolences via Twitter, writing, “My heart has broken for my brother. Please keep the Crahan family in your thoughts and love. She will be missed.”
Gabrielle was one of four children Crahan had with his wife, Chantel, whom he married in June 1992 in Des Moines, Iowa. Gabrielle’s brother Simon and older sister Alexandria both expressed their grief over her death on social media.
Gabrielle’s passing came just after Slipknot performed live for the first time in over two years on Friday night’s edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with the band also unveiling its new masks and single, “Unsainted,” last week as well.
The band is scheduled to go to Europe next month before embarking on the “Knotfest Roadshow” headline tour in North America this summer. A new album, We Are Not Your Kind, arrives August 9th.
Slipknot performed two new songs during Friday night’s episode of ABC-TV’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! The band played “Unsainted,” which was first unveiled last Thursday, May 16th, and “All Out Life,” which was made available last October as a standalone single. Only “Unsainted” aired during the program, which is taped in front of a live studio audience.
“Unsainted” is the first single from Slipknot’s sixth album, We Are Not Your Kind, which will be released on August 9th. The song’s accompanying video was directed by the band’s percussionist, M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan.
With the band recently dismissing percussionist Chris Fehn after he sued them, claiming he hadn’t been properly compensated for his years of touring and recording with the group, a new percussionist wearing a new mask performed with the group on Kimmel and is visible in their new photos and video.
One fan theory suggests that the new percussionist could be Crahan’s son, since he’s spoken in the past about having his oldest offspring join the band: “My oldest boy, when I do skip, he’s gonna take over my slot. He was sitting on the stair in diapers wearing my mask with sticks while we were downstairs trying to learn how to be a band. So when I leave, it won’t be like I died and my son came in and tried to fill my place. I’m gonna bail, but I’m gonna hand over the throne and say, ‘Hey, I can’t do it anymore. You do it. You’re my blood.’”
The identity of the new member remains a mystery for now, just as the band initially kept the names of drummer Jay Weinberg and bassist Alessandro Venturella a secret in 2014 after they replaced Joey Jordison and the late Paul Gray respectively.
Hellyeah has shared the official music video for “Welcome Home,” the title track of its sixth studio album. The song features some of the last work recorded by the band’s late drummer, Vinnie Paul Abbott, who laid down his tracks for the LP before passing away last June at the age of 54 from heart disease.
Welcome Home will be released on September 27th and follows up 2016’s Unden!able, which featured a hit cover of Phil Collins‘ “I Don’t Care Anymore.”
Hellyeah played its first show since Vinnie’s passing on Saturday, May 11th in Las Vegas, with Stone Sour drummer Roy Mayorga making his debut as the former Pantera drummer’s replacement.
Hellyeah will kick off an 18-city headlining tour on July 23rd in Atlanta and wrap it up on August 17th with a “special celebration” in Dallas, the area where Vinnie and his late brother, Pantera guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, spent their formative years.
Bush has shared a video for the song “Bullet Holes,” which is featured in the newly-released movie John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. It is unclear whether the song — which was written with film composer Tyler Bates — will also appear on Bush’s upcoming studio album.
Bates and Rossdale wrote a total of four songs together for Bush’s seventh studio effort, which is titled The Mind Plays Tricks On You and is due out this fall. Bates co-produced the disc, which Rossdale described as a “really heavy record.”
Rossdale told us a while back that he used to worry that Bush’s commercial success initially miscast the group as a pop band: “First of all, I thought it was really good, and I was really proud of it. And, you know, you can even begin to believe your own hype, you know, this idea that we were, had this sort of pure pop element. There was melodic elements, but some of the stuff was pretty hard.”
Bush will hit the road with Live later this spring on “The Alt-Imate Tour,” on which the two bands will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their respective landmark albums Sixteen Stone and Throwing Copper. The 33-city trek kicks off June 6th in Mashantucket, Connecticut, wrapping on September 8th in Rochester, Michigan.
Holy Father!
Sharon Stone and Marilyn Manson will guest star in #TheNewPope, coming soon. pic.twitter.com/bMtNiVtMwq
— HBO (@HBO) May 17, 2019
Marilyn Manson will appear in the upcoming HBO series The New Pope, a follow-up to the controversial 2017 show The Young Pope. Also appearing on the program will be actress Sharon Stone. Both Manson and Stone are known to have been big fans of The Young Pope.
No details of their roles have been revealed, but a photo released of Manson suggests that the rocker will be playing a character not too different from his public persona. The rest of the cast includes Jude Law, who played the pope in the first series, along with John Malkovich, who will play a pope as well. Principal photography has finished on the show, but no air date has been set.
Manson has been at work for a few months on a new album, which will follow up 2017’s Heaven Upside Down.
Manson and Rob Zombie recently confirmed the 2019 leg of their notorious “Twins Of Evil” tour, which kicks off in Baltimore, Maryland on July 9th and makes stops at Rock USA in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and Rock Fest in Cadott, Wisconsin.
