Jay Weinberg releases “Sandstone” (feat. George Clarke)

Jay Weinberg, a multi-instrumentalist from Suicidal Tendencies and formerly of Slipknot, has released his first single solo, as reported by theprp. In December of 2024, he revealed that he has been working on a solo project. George Clarke, a vocalist from Deafheaven, joins him on this first song from it, “Sandstone.” Below is a visualizer for that track. There have been several recording sessions in Nashville, Tennessee, and Los Angeles, California. Weinberg is well known for his drumming, but he can also play guitar, which he has done for this project. In addition to this single debut, Weinberg has stated that he plans to release a debut EP from this collaborative endeavor in early 2026 that has a number of guests. The origins of this specific song, he informed Wall Of Sound, go back about six to eight years.

Oh boy. I’m really excited about it. I’ve been working on this song specifically between six and eight years. Guitar is actually the instrument that I started with. I started playing drums when I was 14, but I started playing guitar when I was nine, and that’s always been my primary writing instrument. Whenever I sit down to write stuff, it’s typically with a guitar first. And so I’ve thrown together different versions of what I would want to do with these songs, material I’ve written for a long, long time, and it just kind of started to make sense where I felt comfortable recording all the instruments myself, and then kind of pitching a song here or a song there to friends of mine.

I’ve always wanted to collaborate with mainly vocalists and just create a very low pressure, like, ‘Hey, here’s a song, why don’t we’, instead of… ‘oh, we got to start a side project.’ In the instance of ‘Sandstone‘, I really felt like the music I was creating really lent itself to what my friend George Clarke would be able to do with his voice and his lyrics, and I just kind pitched it to him like, ‘Hey, let’s do this one song’. And he heard that loud and clear, came in and completely schooled it. It was incredible to watch it come to a fully realized form of a song.

It’s the first song I’ve ever released under my own name, and it’s the first song in a series of collaborations, an EP that I have that’s in various stations of completion, but that I’m hoping to have out in the early part of 2026.