Jay Weinberg Has No Regrets About His Slipknot Exit

Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg is finally putting the past where it belongs, and despite the messy fallout, he’s not carrying any baggage.

Speaking on The Garza Podcast, Weinberg addressed the question that’s been hanging in the air since his abrupt exit from Slipknot in late 2023, his answer was blunt.

‘No, no. Much has been said about it, but I don’t think living with regrets… Your trajectory, it is what it is.’

That mindset feels earned, Weinberg spent a decade behind the kit for one of metal’s most volatile institutions, stepping into the near impossible role left by Joey Jordison and helping drive albums like ‘.5: The Gray Chapter’, ‘We Are Not Your Kind’, and ‘The End, So Far’ to the top of the charts.

A split that still doesn’t make sense

The way it ended still stings, Weinberg has been open about how quickly things unravelled, with one phone call from management, no warning signs and unfortunately no real explanation (per Blabbermouth).

‘I woke up the morning after traveling home from our last show together, and I received a phone call from the band’s manager in which he informed me that the band had made a decision to not renew my contract at the end of the year.’

What followed was confusion more than anything. ‘My world just kind of bottomed out from under me,’ he admitted, describing the moment the band he’d poured everything into suddenly disappeared beneath him.

Slipknot framed the split as a ‘creative decision’, Weinberg never got more than that.

Life after Slipknot

Instead of spiralling, Weinberg has leaned into a broader perspective. Impermanence, he says, is the only constant.

‘I saw something recently that a friend of mine said of, like, the only thing that’s consistent in life is impermanence… it’s, like, no, I don’t regret any of these things.’

It’s a grounded take, especially given the chaos that often surrounds Slipknot’s inner workings, Weinberg hinted at deeper tensions within the band, describing a pressure cooker of competing personalities.

‘One guy has one way he wants things done, another guy wants another way… amplify that by eight other people.’

A decade that still counts

Ten years in Slipknot isn’t a footnote, it’s a defining chapter, Weinberg joined in 2013 as a fan turned full time member, grew into the role, and left with a catalogue that reshaped the band’s modern era. Even if the ending felt cold, the work still stands.

No regrets, no revisionist history, just a drummer who gave everything, got burned, and walked away without looking back.

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