By Zachariah Tritisniotis, Happy Mag News | Slipknot’s founding father shares that he needs heart surgery after a 2025 health scare. Shawn “Clown” Crahan has revealed that he is in need of heart surgery after being diagnosed with a cardiac condition.
This unfortunate news came to light after the band’s 2025 tour last year, which left him feeling like “dying.”
The band’s 56-year-old percussionist revealed this news on Rick Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast, which was uploaded on the 7th of May.
After Slipknot’s tour, Shawn recounted “I wasn’t feeling good, and I went in and the nurse was trying to get an EKG thing going on and it just wasn’t happening. I kind of fell asleep and I woke up. I’m like, ‘Are you going to get this thing?’ And she’s like, ‘Oh, it’s not working.’ They thought I was having a heart attack right there.”
It was revealed that the issue is related to the electrical system of the heart, causing it to skip beats.
Clown stated that his resting heart rate at night is 43, and during the day it can get down to 33.
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Read more about Mr. Clown’s condition here:
https://happymag.tv/slipknot-clown-crahan-heart-surgery-2025-health-scare/
