Slipknot’s Clown reveals story behind goat on ‘Iowa’ album cover
Slipknot percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan has spoken about the goat featured on the cover of the band’s 2001 album ‘Iowa‘.The drummer said in a new interview that the goat is linked to a hidden track on the metal legends’ first album, 1999’s ‘Slipknot’.“That goat’s name is Eeyore,” Clown told Metal Hammer in a reflective piece on the 20th anniversary of ‘Iowa’. ‘Eeyore’ is the name of a hidden track inside their debut album’s closing track, ‘Scissors’.“My mentor who got me going into photography, Stefan Seskis, he shot the first album cover, I came up with the concept and I so badly wanted to shoot the second album cover, and I just couldn’t get it done.