Open Your Omen is VIMIC’s only album that has been completed and shelved since 2016. VIMIC will be reuniting for the first time since 2018 in conjunction with the album’s release on October 3rd, 2025. Joey Jordison’s sisters have worked on securing the rights to the music over the years to honor their brother and provide the fans with what they have been requesting since before Joey passed.

Jordison’s family states, “Joey’s music was his soul, and the Joey Jordison Charitable Fund is honored to support the release of VIMIC’s long-awaited, Open Your Omen album and the concert dedicated to Joey’s legacy. His passion for music touched countless lives, and this collaboration ensures his spirit continues to inspire both fans and fellow musicians. We are deeply grateful to all the contributing artists for their partnership in creating a tribute worthy of Joey’s memory. We know he’s smiling down on us, proud of the new VIMIC album, the concert that will bring so many people together in his honor and his charity that’s putting instruments in the hands of young people in our community. For us, it’s not just about music, it’s about love, family, and the incredible bond Joey built with his fans. This is all for him.

Vocalist Kalen Chase adds, “‘Open Your Omen’was originally conceived as the start of a new chapter. It was an exciting adventure for all of us and we were (and still are) so very proud of what we made. Nine years and several losses of life later, we’re white-knuckling it and will barely be able to contain ourselves before our music bowels explode. In other words, we are very excited for the release of this album after it has been shelved for so long.” Advertisement

The reunion show will take place  at Teragram Ballroom, the Joey Jordison Charitable Fund will not only honor Jordison’s memory but also celebrate the release of the album. VIMIC will be supported by Wednesday 13 (who worked with Jordison in Murderdolls) along with some very special guests, including drummers Ash Pearson (3 Inches of Blood), Chris Williams (Accept), Luanna Demetto (Crypta), Shaun Riekena (Taciturn), Caleb Hayes (10-year-old child prodigy), and  Deen Castronovo (Journey), and more TBA.

Funds raised from the Kickstarter campaign are being utilized to release Open Your Omen on CD/Double LP, market the album, print merch that Joey Jordison was involved with designing years ago, and produce the reunion event in October. Proceeds from the event will be focused on the Joey Jordison Charitable Fund’s partnership with Broken Strings. Broken Strings is a Non-Profit in Iowa (where Joey and his family are from) that gives out guitars to kids in each school district. The family would like to be able to do the same thing, but with drums. 

About VIMIC:

After Jordison departed from Slipknot in late 2013, he shifted his focus to various other ventures. One of these projects, Scar the Martyr, released a self-titled album before disbanding, with some of its members going on to create a new band called VIMIC. The initial lineup of VIMIC included Jordison on drums, Kalen Chase as the vocalist, Jed Simon and Kris Norris on guitars, Kyle Konkiel on bass, and Matthew Tarach on keyboards. Norris left shortly after its release and later that year, VIMIC introduced Steve Marshall as their new second guitarist. Advertisement

VIMIC released four singles from the project between May 2016 and October 2017: “Simple Skeletons,” “She Sees Everything,” “My Fate,” and “Fail Me (My Temple),” the last of which featured Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine.

About Open Your Omen:

The band’s first album, Open Your Omen, was first expected to be released in 2018. Produced by Jordison and Kato Khandwala (The Pretty Reckless, Pop Evil), progress came to a standstill in 2018. Khandwala tragically passed away in a motorcycle accident on April 25, 2018, and Jordison, Konkiel, and Simon shifted their focus to Sinsaenum, Bad Wolves, and Imonolith, respectively. Jordison sadly passed away on July 26, 2021, further delaying the plans on the album.

After years of working to secure the rights to the music, the Jordison Family Estate is releasing Open Your Omen independently to get the album into the hands of the fans that have been asking for it for years.  Advertisement

In a December 2016 interview with Shockwave Magazine, the late and famed Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison discussed the making of his other project VIMIC’s first album: “The way we wrote ‘Open Your Omen’, is exactly like how a garage band would do their demo tape. We went all the way back to the basics, and it was cool doing it like that because you didn’t have the influence of your label, and the huge studio, and cars, hotels, and fancy dinners, all this b——- that goes on along with being in the record industry. It was done literally in my home, organic, and we went out just to the studio not too far from my house and we just laid it down there. So, it was pretty much born in my home and then we just cruised up to the studio and just laid it down really quick.”

Jordison’s family, friends, and fellow band members are proud to release this project and honor his memory and that of Khandwala’s.