SLIPKNOT Percussionist Reveals Original Photo Concept For Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses Cover Art
February 19, 2009, 15 years ago
SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn Crahan, otherwise known as Clown, has posted a new installment of his weekly photo blog on Headbanger's Blog. Entitled Concept 16, the image on the left is the precursor to what became the cover art for the band's 2004 album Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses. Crahan comments:
"When I go to do work for a band or Slipknot and I’m looking for concepts, I have hundreds and hundreds of photos that I revise and go through. And when I was working on Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses, there was a theme I needed to figure out. At the time, we were in a real weird place together as a band. We were reuniting and rehabilitating ourselves after the hellish Iowa cycle. So I kept asking myself, “What is it that ties us together?” And the answer has always been our fans. We wouldn’t be where we’re at if it wasn’t for our fans. So I felt like I needed to have something on the cover that represented that, and that’s how I came up with the maggot mask that we ended up using. This photo is one of the works that I made while I was searching for that final image."Go to this location for Crahan's complete overview.
(Photo by Shawn Crahan)
