SLIPKNOT mastermind/percussionist M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan will be hosting multiple book signings across the US for his upcoming photo book, The Apocalyptic Nightmare Journey. Details can be found at this location.

Crahan talks about The Apocalyptic Nightmare Journey, and he describes his unorthodox methods. Artisan News has a report below:

Apocalyptic Nightmare Journey, which will be published by MTV Books on June 19th, is a collection of explorations in darkness and light from Shawn’s experimental photography, his second and equally powerful artistic outlet which he has honed for over a decade. Weird, wired, paranoid, endlessly imaginative and cancerously prolific, he’s created thousands of dangerous representations of reality through eye-gouging Polaroids in numerous styles in this hand-picked collection.

The foreword to Apocalyptic Nightmare Journey was written by METALLICA's Lars Ulrich; it reads in part, "Throw yourself into clown’s world, throw yourself into clown’s book, throw yourself into clown’s images, throw yourself into the whole fucking thing. Let go of the bungee cord, do away with the safety net. Just go for it, and let the journey take you wherever the journey’s going to take you. And as you’re going on that trip through this book, occasionally imagine clown next to you. Imagine hearing his voice in your head talking about what these images and experiences have meant to him and where he was going with it. And you will end up on one fuck of a ride, that I can guarantee you will be unique, spellbinding, and potentially life altering. This book is everything that art should be.”