Slipknot has announced their will perform their 2001 seminal modern metal album Iowa (Roadrunner) at Ozzfest Meets Knotfest this September. The band has never performed the album in full before. Ozzfest Meets Knotfest festival takes place on September 24th (Ozzfest) and 25th (Knotfest) at San Manuel Amphitheater and Festival Grounds in San Bernardino, California. You can get tickets here:
The band has commented on their pending performance of Iowa:
“Fifteen years ago, something quite extraordinary happened. Nine men from Iowa went in to a studio in California and created one of the most chaotic and destructive albums ever made. It was, and still is, a shockingly physical and ferocious recording.
To this day, it has never been performed in its entirety.
That is about to change.
“On Sept 25, 2016, at Knotfest in San Bernardino, 30,000 people will experience an event that has NEVER been done before. It will be a dense and serious spectacle, both visually and sonically.
“But you’ll be able to say ‘you were there.”
“So… Will you be there?”
“Iowa” went on to become a huge international success, spawning hits including “Disasterpiece”, “The Heretic Anthem”, “People = Shit” and “Left Behind”.
The San Manuel Amphitheater and Festival Grounds is where Ozzfest began in 1996 and where Knotfest was staged last year.
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