“I told her to write a poem about batteries that are dying that cannot be recharged”: Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan explains how Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia ended up on Look Outside Your Window

Clown onstage with Slipknot in 2009 and Cristina Scabbia onstage with Lacuna Coil in 2009.

Slipknot percussionist/co-founder Shawn “Clown” Crahan has explained how Lacuna Coil vocalist Cristina Scabbia came to appear on two songs on the band’s new album Look Outside Your Window.

Talking to Rolling Stone, the 56-year-old explains that Scabbia’s relationship with Slipknot guitarist Jim Root, which lasted from 2004 to 2017, opened the door for her to sing on the long-delayed project. She lends her voice to the songs Cristina, a spoken-word track featuring an Italian poem she wrote, and Is Real.