The TRAGIC Health Battle Of Slipknot’s Clown
Slipknot’s Clown recently sat down for a brand new interview on Rick Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast and revealed a terrifying health scare that happened right after the band’s last tour. The Slipknot co-founder and percussionist opened up about a severe heart condition, an alarming hospital visit where staff thought he was having a heart attack, and his initial fear that a pacemaker would force him to retire from heavy metal forever. Clown also shared a deeply emotional truth about his ongoing physical struggles, the heavy toll of his career, and why being in Slipknot is the one thing that literally keeps him alive.
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@laterallex
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
so..
@JamMasterKen
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
CLOWN man, you do what you need to do to stay healthy. Eating your vegetables helps.
@TOGade-dj6jh
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
2:38 Slash got a pacemaker and he’s still touring. Then again, Clown gives every inch of himself on stage, I saw them live twice during the Subliminal Verses cycle. That’s when both Joey and Paul were still alive and well.
Hoping for a speedy recovery for Clown 🤡
🤘🏼🇸🇪🤘🏼
@waltermiller249
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Not tragic just carma!! Can only screw over so many people before it comes around. Guess they should fire him just like when Joey got sick
@Doomslayer-m5w
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
I’m 38 , 2 open heart surgies , 3 pacemaker surgeries
@TheRareVideosXL
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Get well soon.
@Delusional176
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Sad thing is father time is undefeated, time catches up to all of us, so if you want to live to see a social security check you all need to start taking care of yourselves cause once you hit 40 it's all down hill from there or uphill however you want to see it!
@eoinbyrne9538
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Dont see him being fired anytime soon.
@SoundProdigy
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
The H is silent, Cran
@notforyoutube
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Too bad Joey did not get the same treatment!!!!
@johnmclaughlin9674
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
No Eloy music
@jimjamespaultyrone
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
FIRED.
Prolly through email.
Maybe a text while he’s on the operating table.
“Creative differences”.
@brendasanders6132
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Sending prayers to my favorite percussionist on a speedy recovery. I love you Clown!!!❤
@muzien87
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
33 and 43 is INSANE. As someone who has heart issues ill have spikes to 160 or 180 but ive got meds now that help drastically but resting of 33 is absolutely insane
@aldouslau8722
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Please get well soon and we need Asian tour
@stephenlivingston7462
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Corey is going through his own serious health issues
@dawtesla
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
The jab
@shikarifox4337
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
If Clown leaves can we get Chris and Craig back?
@toxiecrusader5323
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Respect to clown wish U a pull through mate
@evelynsandoval2600
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
RIP to you guys joey and Paul you guys will be missed forever
@evelynsandoval2600
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
I hope you feel better soon
@MeLflowerGirl
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Fuck no please
@DominicWood-jh4gq
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Damn this is definitely devastating to hear and clown has been a great musicianist/percussionist throughout his entire music career but I hope he gets well soon… 🤘🖤
@sirchadiusmaximusiii
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
I thought they loved darkness/death? Accept what you loved amd made millions on.
@juanmiguelona1434
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
I hope clown get well soon
@toddclark332trutle
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Hope he gets fixed it just takes a while going through it myself have a great night and a great tomorrow everybody❤🖤🫵🙋🤘
@slipknotpurity00
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
The procedure he's talking about sounds like catheter ablation. They run a catheter up a vein into you heart and they just singe a couple of nerves and it fixes a lot of rhythm issues, safe and effective.
@scottstefani7876
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Get better shawn
@danteshollowedgrounds
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
It's a sign from god let's go!
@La-Comics-Cave
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
If it was any other member, he would have already been replaced by now, but not Clown…
@RyanRoemer8624
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
His exit
@michie333
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
After the way you treated Jacob 🤚😛✋
@Shelldrakeaus
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
So when are they firing him?
@scarecrow33
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
He probably should have used some of the money he hoarded from the other members to get some health advice. Karma is a poetic one. You broke Joey’s heart, you broke Chris’s heart, you broke Jay’s heart, and now your heart is broken.
@NorZkllR1
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Mabye out of pocket, but does he get fired like Jay Weinberg?
Hope he gets better btw.
@TheSallyOne
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
This has "Replacement" written all over this. If ykyk
@RayfordRaySiegel
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
FAMILY APOLOGIZES
I fixed it. A family is one unit.
@danajoy13
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
I had a feeling… I hope he's able to recover fully ❤️ I hope the surgeons hand is/was steady and everything goes well for him.
@zeneixi
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
That's what coke do to the heart. Frequently when a musician dies from a heart attack is from years of using coke.
@DoNotBlink666
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Corey is getting them walking papers ready. You better hide Clown!
@listenup7284
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
He's been overweight and looked 60 for many years now.. he's lucky to be around.. I'm so grateful that I saw the real slipknot in 2009 just months before Paul gray died. When they fired Joey jordison it was the end. I can't even listen to anything they did after All Hope is gone because even their best stuff after that is a major dip in quality.
@GHXSTEYEZ
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Seeing clown with white hair and having these problems really tells us we're all getting old.
@robertislas1
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
I had the same procedure where they shock your heart. In a couple of hours, he will be a new man, but he still has to lose weight because he's working his heart a lot harder.
@lorryp8701
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Yes clown and his son missed knotfest in Australia last yr, but to my understanding it was about his wife. Hope all goes well and he be back out there touring again. Best of luck to you and speedy recovery bro and strength to you and your family 🖤🤘
@MossMusic777
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Get well Clown! 🤡
@JayDawgDrummer
May 12, 2026 at 7:11 am
Corey just chillin in a corner, standing there. Menacingly. Ready to fire.