Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan has revealed that he wants the band to perform at the 2028 Olympic Games.
In a new chat with Metal Hammer, the percussionist spoke about progressive metal band Gojira’s history-making performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, where they became the first-ever metal act to play at the long-running international sporting tournament.
Clown said of Gojira’s performance: “I got goosebumps. I know this is going to sound stupid, but I’m just so proud of them. I know the word ‘proud’ probably sounds weird coming from me but that band is so incredible, and they’re friends of ours, and Mario (Duplantier) is one of my favourite drummers in hard rock.”
He continued, “What a huge, huge honour, what a huge performance. Like, Gojira are the gold medal.”
When prompted to think about whether Slipknot would be open to performing at the 2028 Summer Olympics hosted by Los Angeles, Crahan announced, “Of course! We’d love to do it. You’re gonna start to see Slipknot do some weird shit. We’ve reached the point where, you know, we want to play the Grammys, we want to play the Olympics. Why not? We’ve done the standard circuit already, for 25 years, and in the future we are going to be everywhere.”
