Ex-Slipknot Drummer Is In Therapy Following Dismissal From Band

Last year, Slipknot surprised fans by firing longtime drummer Jay Weinberg. The band recently recruited former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande for the vacancy, and Weinberg has since joined Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves.

Weiberg, who said he was heartbroken by the news of his dismissal, recently appeared on the “One Life One Chance With Toby Morse” podcast where he talked about how he’s handled the adversity.

“Truth be told, I’m at kind of a point where I’m not quite yet really ready to talk about it, really,” he said. “And that’s not to dismiss the conversation, but I’ve spent time, and spend time, just processing the entire experience. And the experience not being the last six months, but really the last 10 years. And finally, in a way, processing all of that. And doing it in kind of what I would consider the responsible way.”

Weinberg said his therapist is helping him process everything that took place. “I have a fantastic therapist who helps me,” he continued. “Before I speak on it, it’s important for me to do the right work of processing these events that you spend 10 years exclusively committed to one thing. There’s a lot to process that on the other side. And I think there is definitely a time where I’ll speak to my lived experience over those ten years — just not quite yet.”

Weinberg was also asked if he writes to help deal with mental struggles. “Yeah, I write a lot,” Weinberg said. “It’s one of the ways that I think is a responsible way of that processing, and that’s one of the things that, through therapy, has actually been — well, literally therapeutic. It helps you helps you understand moments, periods of time, long periods of time, and it kind of helps you just kind of contextualize that in the greater scheme of life, that you’re not able to when you’re kind of directly just consumed by it.”

Weinberg went on to say that he’s had therapy at different points in his life. “It’s hard to find a good therapist, but when you do, it’s a worthwhile pursuit,” he said. “And it’s an invitation to anybody out there who’s in search of that, that even if it is difficult, if you hit those obstacles of, like, you don’t feel you’ve found the right person to talk with yet, they’re out there. It’s a worthwhile thing of searching for, if you need it.”