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

Iowa is integral to Slipknot’s historical past (by way of each the situation and the album); but, percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan just lately revealed that he and his spouse have left Iowa and moved to Palm Springs, Calif. for a wide range 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 mentioned 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 unbelievable, 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 attainable 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 special vitality and have blue skies [and] heat climate that simply feels good all day, each day.

He then mirrored on life in Iowa:

I’ve a extremely good buddy [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’d attempt to convey 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 automobile breaks down proper right here and that home has a lightweight on?” He’s like, “I’d keep in my automobile,” and I mentioned, “No, you’ll die. You’ll die.

Then, Montgomery talked about that folks “from massive cities” assume 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 assume, “Oh, you’re a kind of scary individuals. You grew up with the manure and the timber.” I reside within the desert now, and I’m making an attempt to convey it full circle with you to say, “Sure, there’s a whole lot 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 questioned, 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 reside 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 by 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].

You understand, 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 restaurant or an interesting place to shoot. The individuals in New York would at all times – for my part – take a look at your as soon as and wouldn’t take a look at you once more, whereas within the West Coat (in L.A.), somebody may be like, “What are you taking a look at?” It would proceed for some time.

Anyway, it simply closed in on me sooner or later. 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 youngster, in order that’s in all probability what it was – however I’ve at all times admired teams of individuals simply propelling by 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. Nicely, , 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 – wherever with nice individuals. Wherever with good individuals round – they’re at all times gonna be there for you, and it is laborious for my spouse and I to be within the state of affairs we have 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, a whole lot of peace right here in Palm Springs. Totally different vitality.

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

He continued:

My spouse was in poor health, and we got here right here a few occasions and her spirits received actually – lots – I imply, simply her spirits and her well being and every thing simply went up. At some point, it was 120°F and we have been laying out within the pool, taking a look at these little mountains simply, like, “Whoa, are we right here?” She’s, like, “I may reside right here.” So, we’re right here. So, that is it. She simply needed to say that, and actually, yeah, we have got a whole lot of peace. It is good to vary your state of affairs, 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 possibly there’d be much less individuals, so individuals squeezed in. We hadn’t finished something like that in a very long time. May very well be twenty years. Might’ve been actually earlier than we have been signed. It’s simply been up ever since. It’s at all times another particular person on the present. It’s by no means been much less.

You may watch all the 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 have been suing “an alleged cybersquatter who’s been utilizing the URL slipknot.com to promote counterfeit merchandise for almost a quarter-century.”

Nevertheless, 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 go well with, 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 correct to revisit the matter legally at one other time ought to they select.”

Extra just lately, we realized that the band’s enigmatic and extremely anticipated misplaced album, Look Exterior Your Window, will lastly be popping out. Nevertheless, it’ll be underneath the identify Look Exterior Your Window fairly than Slipknot, and it’s being launched on April 18, 2026 (on File Retailer Day).

The official File Story Date web site states:

Look Exterior 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 exterior expectations. Through the years, the existence of this undertaking has seen protection in shops 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.

Have in mind, too, that Look Exterior Your Window will apparently be restricted to 2,300 copies. The quilt and full (10-song) monitor listing have been revealed, and understandably, followers have been initially in disbelief that the report is popping out.

When you await Look Exterior Your Window, why not check out our official timeline relating to every thing we find out about it?

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