Why Slipknot’s Clown Left Iowa + Moved to Palm Springs

Iowa is integral to Slipknot’s historical past (by way of each the placement and the album); but, percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan not too long ago revealed that he and his spouse have left Iowa and moved to Palm Springs, Calif. for quite a lot of relatable and endearing causes.

Why Clown Moved to Palm Springs

Crahan was a visitor on the Kennedy Saves the World podcast (episode uploaded to YouTube on March 4), and earlier than lengthy, host/former MTV VJ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery requested if he nonetheless lives in Iowa.

“No, we moved to Palm Springs,” Crahan stated about himself and his spouse, including:

There’s some well being issues, , and the solar is at all times out right here. It’s at all times blue skies. The vitality is unimaginable, and it is simply higher for what my spouse and I are doing now in our life, which is making an attempt to be stress-free as a lot as potential and respect one another. All the children are out of the home, so, it has been an extended haul dedicating to artwork and life. So, we moved to Palm Springs to take a load off and get a unique vitality and have blue skies [and] heat climate that simply feels good all day, day-after-day.

He then mirrored on life in Iowa:

I’ve a very good pal [who was] born and raised in New York, and when he would drive with me in the course of nowhere in Iowa – we’d be going to a studio – and it’d simply be cornfields and soybean fields after which farmhouses a block off the highway, surrounded by timber. He would simply faucet the window and be like, “That’s ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ [laughs]. I might attempt to carry it into actuality to him, ? I’d be like, “Hear, man. Hear. What do you do when it’s -80°F with the windchill and your automotive breaks down proper right here and that home has a light-weight on?” He’s like, “I’d keep in my automotive,” and I stated, “No, you’ll die. You’ll die.

Then, Montgomery talked about that folks “from huge cities” suppose locations like which can be “creepy” as a result of “they don’t have a mass of individuals to run to and corral in the event that they’re in deep yogurt.”

Crahan responded:

A pair issues with that. One – so, I grew up within the woods. Lots of people would suppose, “Oh, you’re a kind of scary individuals. You grew up with the manure and the timber.” I stay within the desert now, and I’m making an attempt to carry it full circle with you to say, “Sure, there’s plenty of bizarre stuff that occurs within the desert, and it’s completely different. The desert’s completely different. It’s positively completely different. We may go into it.

However, the opposite factor I used to be gonna say with that was – I at all times puzzled, like, the actual zombie apocalypse is when the grid is pulled and people are going after people who’ve water or batteries or no matter it’s. I don’t know. I at all times admire individuals who stay in tight conditions with individuals. Sadly, tragedies can occur or what have you ever. The flexibility of the human situation to stay collectively and pull via has at all times been an exquisite factor to see. I say this as a result of I’m nonetheless caught within the woods, however within the desert now. It’s fairly a [conundrum].

, New York closed in on me. I used to like New York. I used to observe trails of gum, , and simply take into consideration conversations of individuals. Simply individuals and gum. Like, who is that this man? Who is that this girl? We’d make chords out of it on music sheets, and I’d simply get actually deep with – the stuff on the road advised such a narrative, and it at all times led me to a great restaurant or an interesting place to shoot. The individuals in New York would at all times – for my part – have a look at your as soon as and wouldn’t have a look at you once more, whereas within the West Coat (in L.A.), somebody is likely to be like, “What are you ?” It would proceed for some time.

Anyway, it simply closed in on me at some point. I felt like I used to be in a soup can and the lid was shut. It’s not essentially New York’s fault. I’ve at all times admired – I’m an solely baby, in order that’s most likely what it was – however I’ve at all times admired teams of individuals simply propelling via life collectively. Making it work.

Lastly, Montgomery requested Crahan if he “really feel[s] at peace,” and he’s visibly rattled as he replied:

Man. Properly, , I am not making an attempt to show this, ‘trigger you requested the query. I gotta be at all times trustworthy. I do not lie, cheat, or steal. It’s like – we misplaced a member of the family, and within the Midwest – anyplace with nice individuals. Wherever with good individuals round – they’re at all times gonna be there for you, and it is onerous for my spouse and I to be within the scenario we had been in, and so many good individuals round. Like I at all times say, lots of people will go residence to dinner, and we’re type of caught in it anyway. So, yeah, plenty of peace right here in Palm Springs. Totally different vitality.

Crahan was virtually definitely referring to the 2019 passing of his daughter, Gabrielle, on the age of twenty-two.

He continued:

My spouse was unwell, and we got here right here a few instances and her spirits acquired actually – loads – I imply, simply her spirits and her well being and every little thing simply went up. Sooner or later, it was 120°F and we had been laying out within the pool, these little mountains simply, like, “Whoa, are we right here?” She’s, like, “I may stay right here.” So, we’re right here. So, that is it. She simply needed to say that, and actually, yeah, we have got plenty of peace. It is good to vary your scenario, get out of the woods [and] get within the desert.

The band I’m in, we performed out right here at a small membership known as Pappy & Harriet’s [in 2024] with our new drummer [Eloy Casagrande] when he joined. . . . we did our first present [with him] there, and I believe all of us thought that perhaps there’d be much less individuals, so individuals squeezed in. We hadn’t performed something like that in a very long time. Might be twenty years. Might’ve been actually earlier than we had been signed. It’s simply been up ever since. It’s at all times another individual on the present. It’s by no means been much less.

You may watch the complete interview under:

Shawn “Clown” Crahan Talks about Palm Springs + Extra on ‘Kennedy Saves the World’ (March 4, 2026)

READ MORE: Followers React in Disbelief That Slipknot Members’ Misplaced Album is Lastly Being Launched

Different Slipknot Information

This previous January – and as Billboard beforehand reported [via Loudwire] – Slipknot had been suing “an alleged cybersquatter who’s been utilizing the URL slipknot.com to promote counterfeit merchandise for practically a quarter-century.”

Nonetheless, on the finish that month, Loudwire wrote about Slipknot “voluntarily dismiss[ing] their lawsuit in opposition to the area identify for slipknot.com,” with “legal professionals for the area identify fil[ing] a movement to dismiss the swimsuit, stating that the band had not served because the registrant for the identify within the time required.”

Loudwire continued: “The next day, the group filed a discover of voluntary dismissal with out prejudice, which might enable them the precise to revisit the matter legally at one other time ought to they select.”

Extra not too long ago, we realized that the band’s enigmatic and extremely anticipated misplaced album, Look Outdoors Your Window, will lastly be popping out. Nonetheless, it’ll be underneath the identify Look Outdoors Your Window somewhat than Slipknot, and it’s being launched on April 18, 2026 (on Document Retailer Day).

The official Document Story Date web site states:

Look Outdoors Your Window is Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Sid Wilson, and Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan, who within the downtime throughout recording periods for Slipknot’s 2008 album All Hope Is Gone, started to freely create songs for themselves, exploring new instructions with no outdoors expectations. Through the years, the existence of this undertaking has seen protection in retailers together with Vice, Revolver, NME, Kerrang!, and numerous others, and the followers have solely grown louder of their demand to listen to this album.

[N]ow over 15 years later, the followers will lastly get to expertise it for themselves. Splatter vinyl with a die-cut jacket, purple foil on the entrance of the jacket, purple flood contained in the jacket, and embossed textual content on the again of the jacket.

Take note, too, that Look Outdoors Your Window will apparently be restricted to 2,300 copies. The quilt and full (10-song) observe record have been revealed, and understandably, followers had been initially in disbelief that the file is popping out.

Whilst you anticipate Look Outdoors Your Window, why not check out our official timeline concerning every little thing we find out about it?

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