Slipknot bassist Alessandro “V-Man” Venturella just lately defined why he lived with founding Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan whereas the group labored on their newest album, The Finish, So Far.
The 2 grew to become full-time roommates on account of journey restrictions surrounding the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which halted a lot worldwide journey in 2020. V-Man, who’s British, usually lives throughout the pond from his American bandmates in Slipknot.
Watch the video down towards the underside of this web page.
“The toughest half was visa points,” V-Man tells Everblack Podcast. “They locked down America [when the pandemic started]. Additionally, you could not go away England [without] a piece allow. You needed to have written — there was some form of written doc that needed to say that you just wanted to go away for work. That was the one method you might go away the nation.” (through Blabbermouth)
The Slipknot bassist continues, “Then, there was clearly the testing and stuff. However there was a great [few] months of — nobody was going wherever. Airports had been shut, the total works.”
V-Man provides, “I believe as soon as it began to type of ease up somewhat bit, and folks had high-profile jobs — like enterprise all over the world — individuals began transferring round. I bear in mind the primary airplane I managed to get on, it was simply me [Laughs]. And there was like, six individuals scattered round. It was the weirdest factor I’ve ever seen in my life. It was nuts. The airport was lifeless. There was like, 4 individuals in it. It was like, what’s that film? 28 Days Later. It was like that.”
The rocker explains, “As soon as I acquired the visa factor sorted, fortunately, that was it. I went and lived at Clown’s home for six months, I believe. It was nice. His spouse’s superb. She’d be cooking dinners for everybody. After which different bandmembers would come out and in. Jay [Weinberg, drums] popped out and in, Jim [Root, guitar] popped out and in. I could not simply leap on a airplane backwards and forwards each week, so I needed to keep there.”
Slipknot launched The Finish, So Far in September. The Iowan masked steel band will head to Europe for gigs subsequent yr. Get Slipknot live performance tickets right here.
See V-Man discuss concerning the journey and dwelling points at 6:00 beneath.
The Everblack Podcast [talks] to Slipknot bass participant Alessandro ‘V-Man’ Venturella about their new album, ‘The Finish, So Far,’ the writing course of throughout lockdowns and musical route, his work as a guitar tech for different large bands, going from crew to headliner on the last-ever Soundwave Competition, his reminiscences of seeing Slipknot for the primary time and extra!
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