Podioslave Podcast<\/a> that he had been working on his solo project for more than a decade. He said: \u200a”I’ve been working on, for lack of a better way of putting it, a solo album, but it’s certainly not solo in the terms of it’s not just me. I’m playing all the instruments on it and I’m collaborating with many different vocalists who I’ve been inspired by. I’ve always wanted do something like this where, like with my friend Conner<\/b> [Sullivan<\/b>, a.k.a.] Argus<\/b>, there are many people in life that we always meet, and it’s, like, ‘Dude, you’re so rad. Let’s start a side project or something like that.’ And it’s difficult. We all have lives. we all have our main things that we do, and life takes us in directions and it’s hard to focus and embark on, like, ‘Hey, let’s make a record. Let’s start a band. Let’s do whatever.’ But I think it’s more easily manageable if I write a song and I’ve come up with it and I’m, like, man, ‘Vocally this direction, it could be really great with this guy, this girl on it,’ who’s a friend of mine that I’ve always wanted to work with. And I kind of pitch it to them, like, ‘Hey, here’s this thing. What would you think vocally and lyrically and stuff? I think this is up your alley. What do you think?’ So I’ve been working on something this entire year that I’m really, really excited about.”<\/p>\nWeinberg<\/b> continued: “But, yeah, that’s been a huge undertaking that I’m really excited about, hopefully getting out there starting in the fall or so. I made kind of a deal with myself that this material that I’ve been writing and rearranging and working on for years \u2014 I was unable to do anything with it, but now that I have the freedom and the ability to exercise all this stuff, it’s been an incredible creative endeavor. I’m teaching myself how to be a recorded guitar player and bass player and keyboard player and all this. I’ve been writing this material since like 20\u2026 I have a demo of one of these songs that dates back to 2011. And I’ve always found working on, guitars \u2014 I’m surrounded by the guitars I play with \u2014 that helps reinforce or reinform how I approach the drums, and I’m listening to what I’m making, not just from wearing my drummer’s hat and, like, ‘Oh, just make the drums louder. That would be awesome.’ It’s not just that. I’m listening to this, because I have such a heavy hand in all of it. Myself, the guitar player, has to respect myself as the drummer and vice versa. And as the painter who’s going to be doing the artwork and stuff like that, it’s all undertakings that I’m taking on. So it’s slow goings, but I’m very proud of it and I’m hoping that some of that stuff starts to see the light of day hopefully this fall, is kind of like the deal that I’ve made with myself. So we’ll see. Knock on wood. We’ll see what happens.”<\/p>\n
Regarding the musical direction of his solo material, Jay<\/b> said: “Sonically, it’s all stuff that I’ve always wanted to dive into. I think my influences from NEUROSIS<\/b> and INTERPOL<\/b> and MY BLOODY VALENTINE<\/b> show their face in this kind of material more so than it has in other music that I’ve been a part of writing or recording in the past. So I’m very thrilled to get this stuff out, for sure.”<\/p>\n
Weinberg<\/b> first revealed his plans to release a solo album in January, sharing on social media that he that he had “put together a group” in 2017 to play his solo music in a band setting, “during a prolonged downtime from touring.” He wrote at the time: “I haven’t touched these songs since then, until recently feeling inspiration to pick the guitar back up and kick this stuff around again. It’s been a fulfilling experience, and I’ll tell you \u2014 I’m starting to like where these songs are headed. It feels good to finally set the intention of releasing some of this new music in the coming year.”<\/p>\n
As well as sharing his excitement to support METALLICA<\/b> with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES<\/b> this spring and summer, Jay<\/b> added that he was “equally pumped to spend considerable time in the studio, especially working on this collection of songs. Stoked for you to hear them. When they’re ready, you’ll know.”<\/p>\n
During an appearance on a July 2024 episode of the “One Life One Chance With Toby Morse”<\/b> podcast, Weinberg<\/b> addressed his surprise firing from SLIPKNOT<\/b> in November 2023, saying: “Truth be told, I’m at kind of a point where I’m not quite yet really ready to talk about it, really. And that’s not to dismiss the conversation, but I’ve spent time, and spend time, just processing the entire experience. And the experience not being the last six months, but really the last 10 years [of playing with SLIPKNOT<\/b>]. And finally, in a way, processing all of that. And doing it in kind of what I would consider the responsible way.<\/p>\n
“I have a fantastic therapist who helps me,” he continued. “Before I speak on it, it’s important for me to do the right work of processing these events that you spend 10 years exclusively committed to one thing. There’s a lot to process that on the other side. And I think there is definitely a time where I’ll speak to my lived experience over those ten years \u2014 just not quite yet.”<\/p>\n
On November 5, 2023, SLIPKNOT<\/b> released a statement via social media in which it said it had “decided to make a creative decision and to part ways with Jay<\/b>.”<\/p>\n
Six days later, Weinberg<\/b>, who replaced Joey Jordison<\/b>, SLIPKNOT<\/b>‘s original drummer, in 2013, shared on Instagram<\/b> that he “was heartbroken and blindsided to receive the phone call”, “the news of which, most of you learned shortly after.”<\/p>\n
Jay<\/b> played his final show with SLIPKNOT<\/b> on November 3, 2023 at the Hell & Heaven<\/b> festival in Toluca, Mexico.<\/p>\n
Jay<\/b> discovered SLIPKNOT<\/b> when he was a pre-teen, through his father. He was hooked immediately and was a huge fan of SLIPKNOT<\/b> by the time he was invited to Los Angeles to try out as replacement for Joey Jordison<\/b> in 2013.<\/p>\n
For the first few months after the release of 2014’s “.5: The Gray Chapter”<\/b>, the members of SLIPKNOT<\/b> had declined to name the musicians who were playing drums and bass on their tour, despite the fact that their identities were revealed as Weinberg<\/b> and bassist Alessandro “Vman” Venturella<\/b> by a disgruntled former drumtech for SLIPKNOT<\/b> who posted a picture of a backstage call sheet on Instagram<\/b>.<\/p>\n
“.5: The Gray Chapter”<\/b> went on to score a trio of Grammy<\/b> nominations, including two for “Best Metal Performance” and a nomination for “Best Rock Album”.<\/p>\n
Weinberg<\/b> also played on 2019’s “We Are Not Your Kind”<\/b> and 2022’s “The End, So Far”<\/b>, both of which topped Billboard<\/b>‘s rock albums chart.<\/p>\n
In February 2024, SLIPKNOT<\/b> recruited former SEPULTURA<\/b> drummer Eloy Casagrande<\/b> as the replacement for Jay<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining SLIPKNOT<\/b>, Jay<\/b> played with AGAINST ME!<\/b> and MADBALL<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Jay<\/b> played his first concert with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES<\/b> in March 2024 in Osaka, Japan.<\/p>\n
In addition to Weinberg<\/b> and frontman Mike Muir<\/b>, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES<\/b>‘ current lineup features lead guitarist Dean Pleasants<\/b>, rhythm guitarist Ben Weinman<\/b> (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN<\/b>) and bassist Tye Trujillo<\/b> (son of METALLICA<\/b> bassist Robert Trujillo<\/b>).<\/p>\n
Weinberg<\/b>‘s pairing with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES<\/b> came less than two months after he was announced as the new drummer of INFECTIOUS GROOVES<\/b>, the long-running outfit formed more than three decades ago by Robert Trujillo<\/b> alongside Robert<\/b>‘s then-SUICIDAL TENDENCIES<\/b> bandmate Muir<\/b>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former SLIPKNOT and current SUICIDAL TENDENCIES drummer Jay Weinberg has released his debut solo single, “Sandstone”. The official…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-581523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115579391060218937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}