Following a successful Kickstarter Campaign, raising over $95,000 to fund the release of the long-awaited “Open Your Omen” album, metal band Vimic will reunite and honor its later former member, Joey Jordison.
has announced an event reuniting the band and honoring Joey Jordison. Taking place in Los Angeles, California, on Oct. 3, 2025, at Teragram Ballroom, the Joey Jordison Charitable Fund will honor Jordison’s memory and 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, and exclusive event merchandise will be available. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 6.
Funds raised from the Kickstarter campaign are being used to release “Open Your Omen” on CD/double LP, market the album, print merch that 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 nonprofit in Iowa (where Jordison 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.
After Jordison departed 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 guitar, Kyle Konkiel on bass and Matthew Tarach on keyboards. Its first single, “Simple Skeletons,” debuted in 2016 on Sirius XM’s Liquid Metal. Norris left shortly after its release, and later that year, Vimic introduced Steve Marshall as its new second guitarist.
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.
The band’s first album, “Open Your Omen,” was expected to be released in 2018. Produced by Jordison and Kato Khandwala (The Pretty Reckless, Pop Evil), progress came to a standstill that year. 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 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.
In a December 2016 interview with Shockwave Magazine, Jordison discussed the making of 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.”
You still can contribute late pledges to the Kickstarter campaign here.
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