What Slipknot’s “not” lost album is like: Cristina Scabbia is there
After almost twenty years, the project recorded by is about to see the light Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Sid Wilson and Shawn “Clown” Crahan in 2008 and considered for decades like a “lost album” by Slipknot. The album is titled “Look outside your window” (here is the story) and, as already announced, the next one is coming out April 18 exclusively on vinyl for the Record Store Day 2026 in selected stores. Until now, it had been those directly involved who disseminated details, provided previews and revealed the sonic direction of the project. According to what has been declared over the years by the four members of the masked heavy metal formation, especially after an interview with Corey Taylor in 2019, the fans have now the curiosity to find out if “Look outside your window” really sounds similar to Radiohead and if it still has typical Slipknot elements. The real surpriserevealed in these last hours, however, is the presence of the voice of in two tracks of the album Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil. The involvement of the Italian singer in a project to which her name had never been explicitly linked is striking, even if it is known that Cristina Scabbia and guitarist Jim Root had a relationship between 2004 and 2017. The project, published independently under the name “Look Outside Your Window” and with the LOYW label (acronym of the title), was born in parallel to the difficult sessions of “All hope is gone” in 2008.
The news comes after they were online detailed information and descriptions shared by fans on the ten songs of “Look outside your window”. According to what was reported in a post on Redditan independent vinyl store in Canada already had the edition of the album available for Record Store Day a week in advance, and who knows in how many other countries. In some forums, in fact, listens to the album have already begun to circulate, perhaps not of the highest quality, but sufficient to at least partially appease the wait of those who he has been waiting for this “lost album” for almost two decades. Luckily, it seems that the publication of “Look outside your window” will not be limited to Record Store Day, because, as reported by several users on Reddita later removed page on the Record Store Day online marketplace indicated one possible release of the album on vinyl, CD and digital for next June 12thwhile according to some the A single could arrive on May 19th as a previewsince that date is indicated as the opening day for pre-orders. While waiting to find a vinyl copy on April 18th or to listen to the album in a future larger release, it is already possible to get a rather precise idea of “Look outside your window” through fan descriptions.
What is “Look outside your window” like
The opinions of those who have already had the opportunity to listen to “Look outside your window” are united by the certainty that the album doesn’t sound like Radioheador at least not in the way it has been told for years. It doesn’t even completely sound like Slipknot-sounding work. Among the descriptions that emerged on the web, many agreed that the atmosphere appears dark, heavy, almost suffocatingbut not there are screams, growls, double kicks or scratchesif not some metallic touches and some experiments that recall Slipknot. According to those who have already been able to get their hands on a copy of the album or those who have already listened to it, “Look outside your window” has “some shoegaze nuances”, moments of a slowness that “can make you think of Pink Floyd” as inspiration, while in other passages one emerges sensitivity that recalls Deftones. While su Genius.comIn fact, they have already been uploaded the lyrics of the tracks Of “Look outside your window”someone online has already done it a complete story of all the songs. For someone”The songs are better than I thought!”, for others, however, not all of them are noteworthy.
From a user who on Reddit reported a complete track by track, the opening track “March 11th” is compared to “My Pain”, created for this project and then ended up on Slipknot’s 2019 album “We are not your kind”, while “Moth” is described as a more interesting track, with moments of Jim Root that are convincing even if “they don’t sound like the usual Slipknot material”. In contrast, the lyrics of the following “He directs” are linked to those of the masked band, while “Corey uses his ‘ghostly’ voice with equally ghostly lyrics, while Clown does something a little pretentious in the background”. Now come Cristina Scabbia’s contributions. It’s funny to note that in the credits on the album cover, an “H” is mistakenly added to the name of the Lacuna Coil frontwoman.”Christina”, therefore”, which is also the title of the fourth track of the album, a piece lasting just over a minute which turns out to be a spoken word in Italian without music. The melody of the next “It’s real” is combined with “Not Long For This World”, while Cristina Scabbia enriches the piece between echo, chorus and countermelody, up to the final spoken word also in Italian.Anyway“, then, the “stereo mix” and Corey Taylor’s “important vocal performance” are appreciated, as well as the “enthralling chorus, very un-Slipknot”.In Reverse” is then the song in which the singer is defined as “sappy” and “Toad” is reminiscent of “Circle” from “Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)”. It could be entire… ah no, nothing. Clown sings. (note: someone distracts him with car keys and Corey takes the microphone after the first verse).”Juliette” is branded as “a discreet song, a little unfinished and with a classic rock riff”, and the final “U can’t stop this” is reported as “little more than filler”.
The story of “Look outside your window”
It is wrong to define “Look outside your window” as a “lost album” by Slipknothaving always been a separate bodyborn within the same creative season but outside the true identity of the group. Its origins date back to the “All hope is gone” sessions, in 2008, when the nine-piece lineup was busy recording the fourth official album and, in parallel, a smaller nucleus composed of Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Shawn “Clown” Crahan and Sid Wilson began to develop in a separate studio at the Sound Farm Studios in Jamaica, Iowa, a completely different, more melodic, more atmospheric, freer material. On one side there was the Slipknot machine, abrasive, noisy, in full internal tension, and on the other it was taking shape a deviation that had no place in the band’s repertoire and which was immediately perceived by those involved as something autonomous, almost an emotional laboratory.
Over the years, the musicians’ stories have contributed to building the myth of the record. Clown has explained several times how everything was born almost by chance, from a work started with Jim Root and then extended to Taylor and Wilson, while Corey Taylor in 2019 went so far as to describe that material as “much more melodic” and “much more like Radiohead“, a definition that has ended up accompanying the project to this day more as a legend than as a faithful photograph of its sound. Jim Root, in turn, recalled sessions outside the box, made up of experiments, intuitions, sounds sought in an almost artisanal way, acoustic instruments, minimal percussion and obsessive attention to atmospheres. In that context, “Look outside your window” became a sort of outlet for four members of Slipknot who, in the midst of a complex phase for the band, had need a different space to move around.
The main recordings took place between February and June 2008but post-production dragged on for years. Over time there have been promises, hypotheses of surprise releases, contradictory declarations, new postponements due to the pandemic, the tours, the Knotfest, the group’s other albums and also the disproportionate expectations built around an object always evoked but never published. At one point Corey Taylor even went so far as to say he hoped the album would never be released, while Jim Root, exasperated by the wait, said he had threatened several times to illegally upload it to YouTube and shut it down there. The release of “Look outside your window” thus brings order to the story. It had already been known for some time that the album was made up of more than a dozen tracks and that two songs born from those same days, “’Til We Die” and “My Pain”, had somehow found a place elsewhere in the Slipknot galaxy. Time to listen to
