Sid Wilson has acknowledged his exit from Slipknot after nearly 30 years together.
It comes after the metal band officially confirmed his departure on Friday (August 14) following weeks of speculation about his status in the group. The statement remains posted on the official Instagram account for Knotfest, the festival created by the band in 2012.
“Effective immediately, Slipknot will no longer be associated with Sid Wilson,” the post read. “We wish him the best in his future endeavors.”
Wilson was known as No. 0 and served as their keyboardist and turntablist, joining them in 1998, just before the Iowa-founded group had their mainstream breakthrough with their self-titled debut.
Since news of his departure broke, Wilson acknowledged it by updating his Instagram biography, which now reads: “Slipknot 1997-2026”.
But Wilson is yet to issue a full-length statement regarding his exit from Slipknot and the reasons for his departure still remain a mystery.
It comes after a TMZ report in late July claimed that Wilson’s exit would mark the latest line-up change. At the time, there had been no word on what led to the alleged split, but the band’s guitarist, Jim Root, took to social media after news broke to urge fans to wait for more information.
In a message shared to his Instagram Story, he said: “Don’t believe everything you read. Stop. Think. Take a breath. Sit with it for awhile.”
Since then during a recent appearance at the inaugural World Scratch Invitational last week, Wilson was introduced as a co-host for the event, and upon taking the mic, introduced himself as “No. 0, from the world famous Slipknot”.
His departure is one of many the band have seen in recent years. In 2019, Slipknot announced they were parting ways with Chris Fehn amid the longtime percussionist’s lawsuit against the band, after he alleged that he had not been properly paid for over twenty years of recording with them.
A few years later, Craig Jones, who had joined them in 1996, left the band in 2023, later that year, Slipknot split with drummer Jay Weinberg over what they called a “creative decision”.
Weinberg recently spoke about all of his new musical projects, and said that he is now able to pursue them after a period of not having the “legal ability” to work with other artists.
Slipknot’s last album ‘The End, So Far’ arrived in 2022 – since then, they’ve been joined by new drummer Eloy Casagrande and have toured in support of their self-titled debut album’s 25th anniversary. Speaking to NME in December 2024, Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan said that their long-lost record ‘Look Outside Your Window’ was out of his hands and with management for the final steps.
