{"id":86109,"date":"2021-07-27T16:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=86109"},"modified":"2021-07-27T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:08:36","slug":"slipknot-former-drummer-joey-jordison-dead-at-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=86109","title":{"rendered":"SLIPKNOT &#8211; Former Drummer Joey Jordison Dead At 46"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Former\u00a0<strong>SLIPKNOT<\/strong>\u00a0drummer Joey Jordison, one of the founding members of the heavy metal band, has died at age 46, his family announced Tuesday (July 27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_3638689c-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_3638689c-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86111\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_3638689c-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_3638689c-scaled-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_3638689c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_3638689c-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_3638689c-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_3638689c-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_3638689c-1170x780.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;We are heartbroken to share the news that Joey Jordison, prolific drummer, musician and artist passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 26th, 2021,&#8221; a statement from Jordison&#8217;s family to&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;reads. &#8220;Joey\u2019s death has left us with empty hearts and feelings of indescribable sorrow.&nbsp;To those that knew Joey, understood his quick wit, his gentle personality, giant heart and his love for all things family and music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;The family of Joey have asked that friends, fans and media understandably respect our need for privacy and peace at this incredibly difficult time,&#8221; the statement adds. &#8220;The family will hold a private funeral service and asks the media and public to respect their wishes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Jordison formed Slipknot in his native Iowa in 1995 along with percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray. Slipknot announced in December 2013 that Jordison and the band were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/5839723\/slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-part-ways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;parting ways&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;after nearly two decades together, though the drummer later said in interviews that he was fired.&nbsp;&#8220;No band meeting? None. Anything from management? No, nothing,&#8221; Jordison said in a 2016 interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/rock\/7415495\/slipknot-joey-jordison-drummer-firing-cowardly-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Metal Hammer<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;All I got was a stupid f&#8212;ing email saying I was out of the band that I busted my a&#8211; my whole life to f&#8212;ing create.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0SLIPKNOT\u00a0drummer Joey Jordison, one of the founding members of the heavy metal band, has died&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86112,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86109\/revisions\/86112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}