Slipknot have announced a full physical release for their experimental ‘lost’ album ‘Look Outside Your Window’.
After years of speculation, proposed releases and delays, the album was finally released for Record Store Day in April this year, in a very limited-edition run.
Now, they have announced that fans will finally be able to get their hands on it in a range of physical formats from June 12. There will be a blue transparent leaf-filled LP, limited to 250 copies, a clear purple LP limited to 500 and a bubblegum LP limited to 1000.
There will also be silver nugget and golden pearl 12” versions, as well as a general release eco black version and a digipak CD. Browse all of the options and pre-order your copy here.
The music on the album was recorded during the recording sessions for the band’s fourth record ‘All Hope Is Gone’ in 2008, but was kept as a separate body of work from the band’s studio output.
They have been teasing its release since 2019, but it was delayed multiple times – partially due to COVID-19 – and it has now been released, with the artist and album title both listed as Look Outside Your Window.
In a statement for Record Store Day, the band said: “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.
“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,” they 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.
“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 fans started receiving the album ahead of Record Store Day last month, they started comparing it to Radiohead and Pink Floyd, with Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil making several appearances throughout it.
In 2024, Clown spoke to NME about the album: “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. 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.”
He later told us that “management has [the album] and it’s coming out”, hinting: “What I can tell you is that I showed Corey the final artwork two days ago. It is happening, but unfortunately, because of Christmas and New Year and the way business works, I can’t slide it in this year.”
He began 2026, meanwhile, by warning fans: “It’s not Slipknot at all, not even close.”
Reviewing the album, NME awarded it four stars and noted: “We always knew ‘Look Outside Your Window’ was going to be experimental. It’s Taylor’s desolate voice, over the knee-jerk intersection of heaviness and atmosphere, that fills it with the Slipknot fear factor, something normally summoned through masks and unrelenting brutality. ‘Look Outside Your Window’ wouldn’t exist without The Nine, and its unanswered mystery can finally be resolved, confirmed in their story as a seriously impressive cult classic.”
Last autumn, Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande revealed that the band were working on new music. “We are cooking,” he said at the time. “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.”
