Surviving band members have secured the rights to the project
VIMIC, featuring late Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, has come back together with the help of Jordison’s family to release the long-awaited Open Your Omen album after years of working to secure the rights to the album.
The band has released “In Your Shadow,” its first single since 2017. It follows a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised $100,000 to make the now-independent album release possible. Written by Jordison, lead vocalist Kalen Chase, and former VIMIC member Kris Norris as a tribute to the late Peter Steele of Type O Negative, the song has taken on new meaning as a tribute to Jordison and producer Kato Khandwala.
“Joey was a big fan of Peter Steele and he actually introduced me to him in 2007,” says Chase. “So there was no pushback on writing a tribute song about him. It’s a departure from the more extreme stuff we were doing for the record, which made it feel fresh. Playing it live was special because everybody had somebody specific in mind they were playing for. Now we’re playing it for Joey.”
VIMIC will perform at Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on October 3rd with support from Wednesday 13 (who was in Murderdolls with Jordison), and featuring a number of drummers behind Jordison’s iconic kit. A night honoring Joey Jordison and the release of the album is presented by the Joey Jordison Charitable Fund.
Jordison died in July 2021 at the age of 46. His family announced that he passed away peacefully in his sleep, but did not publicly release a specific cause of death.
Jordison had previously revealed in 2016 that he had been diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological disease that caused him to lose the use of his legs and ultimately led to his departure from Slipknot in 2013. Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of the spinal cord that can lead to weakness, sensory issues, and paralysis.
