If 2022 could be summed up in one word, it would, for Slipknot bassist Alessandro ‘Vman’ Venturella, be “relief”. Sure, we’re on the brink of World War III, and the parts of the planet that aren’t on fire are under water, but at least he doesn’t have to wear a mask anymore – an irony not lost on a man who wears a mask for a living.
“THE BEST PART WAS BEATING ED SHEERAN!”
“It was a weird one,” he says of 2022, “because everything was last minute. Like, if we don’t do it now, we won’t get the opportunity. We started on the album in 2020 and then worked on it all throughout 2021. Then
