Slipknot to (finally) release 2008's shelved ''Look Outside Your Window''

Slipknot's long-awaited, perpetually-shelved 2008 record Look Outside Your Window will finally come out on April 18, for Record Store Day.

The band have only printed 2,300 12-inch records, as a Record Store Day exclusive.

Previously, the album had been slated to come out in 2019, then pushed to 2023 and finally to 2024, when it was announced it would simply not see the light of day. However, percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan revealed last December that the record might come out this year.

“We knew we were heading down a different creative path, entirely apart from Slipknot, and we followed it eagerly,” the band explains. “We called the project Look Outside Your Window as a tribute to this experimental spirit.”

“Created during a chaotic time in our shared history, the songs were born late at night, in a house on a farm in the middle of nowhere. Peering out through a big picture window, we wondered about what, or who, might be lurking outside. That sense of the unknown seeped into the music itself. There were no rules; ideas could come from anywhere: subtle drum loops, bits of organ or abstract guitar noise, even samples of frogs or crickets. Guided by emotion and instinct, we let the sounds themselves point the way.”

Though the record is undeniably part of the Slipknot fandom lore, Look Outside Your Window is described as a ''passion project'' of the four band members who participated in its recording. It was mainly recorded during the sessions for All Hope is Gone, in 2008.