Slipknot's Clown releases four solo songs under the name Brainwash Love

As well as working on the highly-anticipated new Slipknot album – the follow-up to 2019's We Are Not Your Kind – Shawn 'Clown' Crahan has also been working on music of his own, under the name Brainwash Love.

Clown has just dropped four new songs on YouTube, with the instrumental material varying in length and sound, from more subtle electronics to intense 8-bit between one and six minutes long. All four songs come with visuals created by Clown, naturally, and if you want a look inside his mind, this is probably all a really insightful place to start…

Here's Dreaming:

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This is Suction:

Last week, Clown teased that Slipknot have an unreleased tribute song to their much-missed late bassist, Paul Gray.

"There are so many songs that have never been released because they get taken up to a point, and they’re doing good, but then they just sort of fall short because maybe that right brush just couldn’t bring that colour yet. So we hold it back. There’s tons of music," he admitted. "We have a song that we wrote for Paul Gray called Without The Gray, and it’s probably my fault, but I’ve held it for a long time. I don’t know why…

"It was too close in the beginning, and it seemed like it needed to be for us more than for everyone else. And now I don’t care, I want it to be for everyone else instead of us."

In the same interview, he also said that he hoped Slipknot’s new record would be finished in July.

"We still have a lot of time to complete this. We’re hoping to be done by the end of July,” he pondered, adding that it could be The Nine’s last with longtime label Roadrunner Records: "There’s a lot of things going on. One, we’re getting off our label [after the album]. And I feel free. It’s got nothing to do with what’s next. It’s just got to do with, 'Get the hell away from me.’”

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