“Clown asked me, do you know any Slipknot songs? And I was like yeah, how about we start with these? And we started with ‘Before I Forget’ and ‘Duality’, those were the first songs we ever played together, and when we played those the whole vibe of the room started to change, and they were like, ‘Well, that sounded f**king awesome, do you know anything else?’”

Check out Jay Weinberg’s incredible interview with Rhythm Magazine about joining Slipknot and more right here!

The guys at Zildjan caught up with Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg whilst on tour this past summer. In the interview which you can watch in full below, Jay takes us through his current set up as well as how he got into drumming & more.

The year is quickly drawing to a close which means it is time for the end of year round ups and polls! Music Radar have announced the nominations for their end of year polls which includes We Are Harlot’s Bruno Agra in the ‘Best New Drummer’ category, Opeth’s Martin Axenrot in the ‘Best Prog Drummer’ category and Slipknot’s Jay Weinberg in the ‘Best Metal Drummer’ category. Voting is open now, make it count people!