You’ve heard the whispers about this Slipknot album for years. The mysterious “lost” album. The one recorded in the shadows while the band was making All Hope Is Gone. The one surrounded by delays, rumours, false starts and almost mythological fan obsession.
Now, after nearly two decades of buildup, Look Outside Your Window is finally getting the full physical release it deserves!
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Slipknot officially announced that the experimental project will arrive in multiple physical formats on June 12, following its ultra-limited Record Store Day release earlier this year.
You’ll be able to grab the album as a blue transparent leaf-filled LP (limited to 250 copies), a clear purple LP capped at 500, and as a bubblegum variant limited to 1000. There are also silver nugget and golden pearl 12-inch editions, alongside a standard eco black vinyl pressing and a digipak CD.
The music itself dates back to 2008, during the sessions for All Hope Is Gone, but the band quickly realized these songs belonged somewhere else entirely. Not as a Slipknot album. Not as side-project leftovers. Something stranger.
In a statement released for Record Store Day, the band explained:
“We knew we were heading down a different creative path, entirely apart from Slipknot, and we followed it eagerly. We called the project ‘Look Outside Your Window’ as a tribute to this experimental spirit.”
The atmosphere surrounding the album sounds almost cinematic.
“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,” the band continued. “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.”
And the creative process?
“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.”
When copies started landing in fans’ hands ahead of Record Store Day, listeners immediately began comparing the album to Radiohead and Pink Floyd, noting how far the material drifts from the violence and chaos typically associated with Slipknot. Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil also makes multiple appearances throughout the record.
Back in 2024, percussionist Shawn Crahan spoke openly about finally letting the album go.
“I’m really pleased about it and happy to finally be rid of it! What’s nice though is that it isn’t a hype thing, it’s just something we did while we were doing other Slipknot albums.”
He added:
“It was a very honest action to make music that wasn’t Slipknot, but utilised the skills of guys with no rules. I don’t know if it’s ‘good’, but I know that I love it. I make music for myself, but I hope that the people who waited and waited and waited think it was worth it too.”
By early 2026, Clown was still warning fans not to expect a traditional Slipknot record.
“It’s not Slipknot at all, not even close.”
Meanwhile, Slipknot’s future appears just as active as its past. Drummer Eloy Casagrande recently confirmed the band has already been working on fresh material.
“We are cooking,” he said. “Since I joined the band, we have been working on some new ideas. We keep exchanging guitar riffs, drum beats, so we are always doing something. We had also some jam sessions.”
After all the years of mystery surrounding Look Outside Your Window, was the long wait part of what made the album feel so legendary in the first place?
