Dead rock legend’s family starts fundraiser to release his band’s debut album
The debut album for a band formed by a late metal legend is expected to drop six years after it was originally scheduled to come out.
The family of Joey Jordison, Slipknot's late drummer, launched a Kickstarter Monday to raise funds needed to release VIMIC 's debut album, "Open Your Omen."
Jordison formed the band in 2015 after he left Slipknot two years prior, according to NME . VIMIC released four singles from 2016 to 2017. The band's debut album, was supposed to be released in 2019, but it was shelved after the record's producer Kato Khandwala died in a motorcycle accident in 2018 . Jordison's family now expects "Open Your Omen" to be released in September.
"Joey didn't do anything small," Jordison's family wrote in an Instagram post Friday. "We want to release this album the way he would have wanted; with the designs he was so actively involved with creating for the CD, double LP, merch, and with the support of his fans to make the biggest splash we can upon release."
"We have added personal items of Joey's to help raise the money needed to manufacture and distribute physical product, market the album, and host a night to remember as VIMIC reunites to perform an event honoring Joey's legacy," the post continued. "An evening full of iconic drummers on Joey's drum kit, special guests, and stories you've never heard. Join us and spread the word. Open Your Omen."
Jordison was the original drummer for Slipknot, which officially in formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995. The drummer played on the band's first five studio albums and produced the 2005 live album "9.0: Live."
Jordison also performed with several major metal acts including Rob Zombie, Metallica, Korn, Ministry, Otep and Satyricon. In addition to VIMIC, Jordison helped form the metal bands Murderdolls, Scar the Martyr and Sinsaenum.
Jordison died in his sleep on July 26, 2021, at the age of 46. The drummer died from acute transverse myelitis (ATM). The neurological disorder, which results in the inflammation of both sides of one section of the spinal cord, often damages the insulating material covering nerve cell fibers, according to the Mayo Clinic .
Jordison said in a 2016 interview with Metal Hammer that he started experiencing symptoms of ATM toward the end of his time with Slipknot.
"I lost my legs. I couldn't play any more," he told the outlet at the time. "It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I don't wish on my worst enemy."
Jordison was playing in Sinsaenum at the time of his death.
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