Slipknot has been circling the news a whole lot lately, and for good reason, their latest album We Are Not Your Kind has been pulling astronomical numbers, even knocking off Ed Sheeran from the top of the charts.
This time the word Slipknot has been floating around the internet, but not because of anything the band themselves have done. The hype is all around a fourteen-year-old drummer who absolutely destroyed a cover of Slipknot’s latest track, ‘Unsainted’.
It’s safe to say that nobody was as cool as Maren Alford when they were fourteen. Alford is one beast of a drummer, and at such a young age too, it really just makes us feel underaccomplished. Just recently the drumming prodigy released her cover of ‘Unsainted’ by Slipknot.
And apparently, she’s in a band as well. Alford is the drummer for the pop-rock female trio Not Ur Girlfrenz. Apparently she’s a mini Jay Weinberg, too, as she’s able to imitate his drumming on the absolutely monstrous We Are Not Your Kind track.
“Jay Weinberg is one of my favorite drummers, and I’m excited to cover one of his songs — the moment I heard Slipknot ‘Unsainted’ I knew this was the one! Very proud to be in the SJC Drums artist family with Jay!” Alford writes in the description of the video.
Slipknot released the video for ‘Unsainted’ back in May, which was the first single from their new album and the initial reveal of their new masks. We Are Not Your Kind debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling over 100,000 copies in its first week.
You can watch Maren Alford play her cover below, simply slaying the hell out of ‘Unsainted’
Watch the cover below
The absolute talent of it all, kudos to Maren Alford for sharing her sweet cover. We can probably expect much more greatness from her in the future.
