Sideshows have been announced for Slipknot’s upcoming Knotfest Australia 2025 bands ft. Slipknot, A Day to Remember, BABYMETAL, Within Temptation, Enter Shikari, Slaughter To Prevail, Hatebreed, and more! See the purchase links below. Slipknot is currently on their “Here Comes the Pain” World tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their self-titled debut album (Roadrunner Records), and just headlined their Knotfest Iowa festival.Continue reading
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Twenty-five years! To be twenty-five years on and a debut album to have this much of an impact still is a real feat and it’s safe to say metal icons Slipknot show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. To say tonight’s show has been hotly anticipated is perhaps the understatement of the year, there is a buzz in the air as crowds shuffle into the brand-new Co-Op Live Arena. Holding claim as the UK’s largest indoor arena the swanky new venue is about to get a real test run as generations of metalheads descend for a night of raucous celebration.Continue reading
Following up on a story from 2023, the music industry was one of the most devastated due to COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the U.S government signed into law The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant. It was for payroll, and operations capitol for venues and bands. It was meant to keep artists afloat during the lockdowns. Touring did not really resume full-time until 2021. The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant and the Paycheck Protection Program – these federal loan programs were created in 2020 to help businesses, and self-employed workers, impacted by the COVID-19 etc. during the lockdown.Continue reading
One year after predicting the much talked about unreleased album of ambient music “Look Outside Your Window” would come out in the spring of 2024 (and other possible missed release dates over the years), M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan of Slipknot now says the album is in the hands of the bands’ management and preparing for a potential release in 2025. In a recent interview for their current here comes the pain 25th anniversary tour, Jim Root, frustrated by being asked about it, threatens to leak it Clown gave a new interview explaining why it would not make to see a release this year. The band has spent all of 2025 touring all over the world, headlining their Knotfest branded events and other metal festivals. Slipknot has also been recording a new album, which will be their first to feature new drummer Eloy Casagrande and the first not to feature Craig Jones, who has retired.Continue reading
Swiss death metallers Conjonctive have released Misère de Poussière (Tenacity Music), an album that features their dual vocalists Randy Schaller from Voice Of Ruin and Sonia Kaya. Unlike many European Death Metal bands, there is a bouncing groove to their sound at times that might bring to mind the rougher moments of a band like Slipknot. Not that the band is trying to hop on the Nu-Metal revival train; things like the tremolo-picked guitars prove to the contrary. Though with ample Black Metal influence, aggression is more of a focus than a worship of darkness. They are skilled at delivering deliberate accents to provide more hooks than just battering your senses.Continue reading
Halloween might have come and gone for another year but for everyone at KK’s Steel Mill tonight for Wednesday 13, Spooky Season is still in full swing. Gothic outfits, jet black hair (for those who still have any) and corpse make-up is the order of the evening and the coffins that sit on either side of the stage for the opening act South of Salem add the finishing touch before the band even make their entrance.Continue reading
