Did Slipknot’s Website Just Confirm Their New Drummer?

Slipknot’s grand reveal of their mystery drummer is just days away, set to coincide with their live performance at Sick New World. But a few determined internet detectives might have already beaten the band to the punch. Armed with nothing more than a browser and some rudimentary coding skills, these sleuths have apparently unraveled the drummer’s identity before he’s even hit a single snare.

The breadcrumbs lead back to a Reddit post by a user named tmt1983, who shared a discovery lurking in the source code of Slipknot’s “You Can’t Kill Me” website. Nestled among the file names for the band members was a peculiar entry: eloy.jpg. Here’s the kicker—there’s no Eloy currently listed in Slipknot’s lineup. However, the timing aligns suspiciously well with the departure of Eloy Casagrande, the former Sepultura drummer who recently announced his exit to explore “new cycles that will come.” The connection practically draws itself.

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A file in Slipknot’s website code has fans guessing Eloy Casagrande and Jeff Karnowski could join the band.

As if that wasn’t juicy enough, there’s another curious file name: jeff.jpg. Speculation suggests this could point to Jeff Karnowski, a musician with ties to Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan through their side project, Dirty Little Rabbits. If true, Karnowski might not only join as the band’s new sampler but could also be Craig Jones’s replacement. A two-for-one deal, perhaps?

But hold your horses; before you start trying to replicate this little treasure hunt, let me save you the headache—it involves a lot of HTML, filenames, and what might as well be ancient hieroglyphs. If you’re itching to dig in, the original Reddit post lays it all out for you. Just don’t blame me if you get lost in the digital weeds.

Here’s where it gets suspicious, though. The Reddit account that leaked this info? Created yesterday. And its sole activity is this post. While throwaway accounts aren’t exactly rare on Reddit, it does raise the question: could this all be an elaborate misdirection? Maybe Slipknot planted this “leak” to keep fans guessing. For all we know, eloy.jpg could be a decoy—and mustardman.jpg might’ve been the real file we missed.

Or who knows, maybe they’re lining up Lars Ulrich to shock the world with his groundbreaking double bass skills. (Hey, stranger things have happened.)

Ultimately, the guessing game ends Saturday when Slipknot hits the stage. Until then, keep the conspiracy theories coming—there’s nothing like a little chaos to make the wait more entertaining.

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