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Acclaimed Heavy Metallic Act VIMIC Announce “In Your Shadow” (Out August 8) & LA Reunion Present on October 3 Honoring Joey Jordison

July 29, 2025

On the eve of the anniversary of Joey Jordison’s passing and following a profitable Kickstarter Marketing campaign, elevating over $100,000 to fund the discharge of the long-awaited Open Your Omen album, VIMIC has introduced the one “In Your Shadow,” out August 8.

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“In Your Shadow” was initially written by Joey Jordison, Kalen Chase, and former VIMIC member Kris Norris in 2014 as a tribute to the late Peter Steele of Kind O Unfavourable. Whereas it was written for a selected objective, different band members and followers have taken it as a private memorial for these they’ve misplaced. After Joey handed, this track sadly took on one other that means and the band stands behind this as a tribute to their late brother.

Open Your Omen is VIMIC’s solely album that has been accomplished and shelved since 2016. VIMIC shall be reuniting for the primary time since 2018 at the side of the album’s launch on October third, 2025. Joey Jordison’s household has labored on securing the rights to the music through the years to honor their brother and supply the followers with what they’ve been requesting of the band for fairly a while.

The reunion present will happen at Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles. The Joey Jordison Charitable Fund won’t solely honor Jordison’s reminiscence but additionally have fun the discharge of the album with followers, pals, and shock visitors. VIMIC shall be supported by Wednesday 13 (who labored with Jordison in Murderdolls) and has introduced a number of of the visitor drummers that shall be sitting in on Joey’s drum equipment all through the set: Luanna Demetto (Crypta), Ash Pearson (3 Inches of Blood, Revocation, Zimmers Gap), and Caleb Hayes (10 year-old drum prodigy and Joey Jordison’s final IG put up on his profile from 2020).

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Funds raised from the Kickstarter marketing campaign are being utilized to launch Open Your Omen on CD/Double LP, market the album, print merch that Joey Jordison was concerned with designing years in the past, and produce the reunion occasion in October. Proceeds from the occasion shall be targeted on the Joey Jordison Charitable Fund’s partnership with Damaged Strings. Damaged Strings is a Non-Revenue in Iowa (the place Joey and his household are from) that provides out guitars to children in every college district. The household would love to have the ability to do the identical factor, however with drums.

About VIMIC:

After Jordison departed from Slipknot in late 2013, he shifted his focus to numerous different ventures. Considered one of these tasks, Scar the Martyr, launched a self-titled album earlier than disbanding, with a few of its members occurring to create a brand new band referred to as VIMIC. The preliminary lineup of VIMIC included Jordison on drums, Kalen Chase because the vocalist, Jed Simon and Kris Norris on guitars, Kyle Konkiel on bass, and Matthew Tarach on keyboards. They debuted their first single, “Easy Skeletons,” on Could 6, 2016 by way of Sirius XM’s Liquid Metallic and obtained excessive reward from Loudwire, New Noise Journal, Blabbermouth, and NME, amongst others. Norris left shortly after its launch and later that 12 months, VIMIC launched Steve Marshall as their new second guitarist.

VIMIC launched 4 singles from the challenge between Could 2016 and October 2017: “Easy Skeletons,” “She Sees The whole lot,” “My Destiny,” and “Fail Me (My Temple),” the final of which featured Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine.

About Open Your Omen:

The band’s first album, Open Your Omen, was first anticipated to be launched in 2018. Produced by Jordison and Kato Khandwala (The Fairly Reckless, Pop Evil), progress got here to a standstill in 2018. Khandwala tragically handed away in a bike accident on April 25, 2018, and Jordison, Konkiel, and Simon shifted their focus to Sinsaenum, Dangerous Wolves, and Imonolith, respectively. Jordison sadly handed away on July 26, 2021, additional delaying the plans on the album.

After years of working to safe the rights to the music, the Jordison Household Property is releasing Open Your Omen independently to get the album into the palms of the followers which were asking for it for years.

In a December 2016 interview with Shockwave Journal, the late and famed Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison mentioned the making of his different challenge VIMIC’s first album: “The way in which we wrote ‘Open Your Omen’, is precisely like how a storage band would do their demo tape. We went all the way in which again to the fundamentals, and it was cool doing it like that since you didn’t have the affect of your label, and the large studio, and vehicles, accommodations, and fancy dinners, all this b——- that goes on together with being within the file business. It was executed actually in my residence, natural, and we went out simply to the studio not too removed from my home and we simply laid it down there. So, it was just about born in my residence after which we simply cruised as much as the studio and simply laid it down actually fast.”

Jordison’s household, pals, and fellow band members are proud to launch this challenge and honor his reminiscence and that of Khandwala’s.