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Knotfest Australia 2023 is going to be loaded!

In some of the most anticipated news of the week, the Knotfest Australia 2023 lineup has been confirmed. Set to be headlined by Slipknot, the hugely stacked festival lineup includes the likes of Parkway Drive, Megadeth, Trivium, Northlane, and more for the inaugural Knotfest Australia 2023.

Knotfest Australia 2023 Lineup:

• Parkway Drive
• Amon Amarth
• Knocked Loose
• Story of the Year
• Void of Vision
• Malevolence

Knotfest Australia Dates and Venues

• Friday March 24 – Melbourne, Flemington Racecourse VIC
• Saturday March 25 – Sydney, Centennial Park NSW
• Sunday March 26 – Brisbane, RNA Showgrounds QLD

Check out all the latest touring news  here .

Knotfest, the destination festival brand curated by Slipknot, is continuing its ever-expanding global domination with the announcement of its next location – Knotfest Australia in 2023.

If you need a refresher, Knotfest is Slipknot’s own self-curated, destination festival brand, currently held in eight international locations; the US, Japan, Mexico, Finland, Germany, Colombia, Chile and Brazil. Designed as an immersive, unforgettable, ‘dark carnival experience’, the event invites you into Slipknot’s apocalyptic underworld where stunning visuals, fire breathers and nightmarish creatures on stilts set the stage for an intoxicating and memorable weekend of live music.

The music and counterculture experience created by the multi-platinum sonic phenomenon Slipknot, will hit the East coast of Australia starting on Friday March 24 at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, before making its way to Sydney on Saturday March 25 at Centennial Park, and wrapping up in Brisbane on Sunday March 26 at the RNA Showgrounds.

A staple at Knotfests all over the world, the Knotfest Museum will also be making its way to Australia for the very first time. The Knotfest Museum features a jaw-dropping collection of items from the band’s history and a fan-favourite attraction at the other Knotfests around the globe. Tickets are strictly limited in each city.

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Early bird pre-sale tickets are on sale at 9am local time on Thursday November 3 here and general public tickets go on sale at 9am local time on Monday November 7 here .

Slipknot’s latest album, The End, So Far  landed yet another #1 Official Album Chart position in Australia, their fourth straight #1 in a row, as the album racked up a string of global chart accolades, including #1 Album positions in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico and Top 10 in Japan, Finland, Sweden, Canada, USA, New Zealand, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, Austria, France and the Netherlands.

We caught up with bassist Alessandro ‘V-Man’ Venturella who for the onlooker, is still considered the “new” bassist of Slipknot.

But with a decade in the fold of the nine now under his belt, the staunch, tattooed Englishman has gone from mysterious live session member to an essential part of the band’s creative formula, with crucial additions to Slipknot and their celebrated 2019 release  We Are Not Your Kind  and new LP  The End, So Far .

“When you become part of something that’s been a solid unit for such a long time, it can be pretty intimidating,” he says, speaking from his home in London where he was enjoying some merciful downtime before the beginning of another album cycle.

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Slipknot announce huge Knotfest Australia 2023 line-up

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It’s official, maggots! After confirming the dates and venues in an exclusive announce with triple j’s The Racket , Slipknot have now rolled out the full line-up of acts playing the first ever Australian edition of Knotfest.

Joining the masked metallers in taking over Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in March of next year will be international heavy-hitters Megadeth, Trivium, Amon Amarth, Spiritbox, In Flames, Knocked Loose, Story Of The Year, Malevolence and Bad Omens, in their first visit to the country.

Some of Australia’s loudest and proudest bands are in the mix, too. We're talking Parkway Drive - fresh from new album Darker Still  and ABC's  Australian Story doco 'Getting Heavy' - the mighty Northlane, Tassie roarers Alpha Wolf, and Melbourne’s Void of Vision.

The news of Knotfest Australia lands after Slipknot’s latest album The End, So Far debuted atop the ARIA Album Charts (their fourth Australian #1 release) and marks their first tour Down Under since 2016.

Slipknot co-founder and percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan says it’s an “honour and a blessing” to finally bring Knotfest Down Under.

“We love Australia, it’s just part of our lineage” he told Lochlan Watt on triple j’s The Racket on Tuesday (25 October). “We’ve been going there from the beginning, so it doesn’t’ feel natural to not play there for so long.”

He also spoke about giving maggots the hit-packed setlist they want, future Slipknot projects, and the ‘embarrassing noise’ and “bullshit that comes with releasing a new album.” Read the full interview here .

The inaugural Knotfest took place in Slipknot’s native Iowa back in 2012 and has since expanded to international events in Mexico, Japan, France, Germany, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil.

Tickets are on sale Monday 7 November, 9am but Knotfest Premium Members get first dibs in a pre-sale kicking off 3 Nov. View the full details below and more info at  Knotfest.com/Australia .

Knotfest Australia 2023

• Fri 24 March – Flemington Racecourse: Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Melbourne
• Sat 25 March – Centennial Park: Gadigal Land, Sydney
• Sun 26 March – RNA Showgrounds: Turrbal Jagera, Brisbane

Line-up: Slipknot Parkway Drive Megadeth Trivium Northlane Amon Amarth In Flames Knocked Loose Spiritbox Story of the Year Alpha Wolf Void of Vision Bad Omens Malevolence

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Slipknot Will Headline Knotfest In Australia In 2025

by Paul Cashmere on March 11, 2024

Slipknot will return to Australia in 2025 for Knotfest.

Knotfest 2024 ticket holders will automatically be offered first release tickets for 2025.

KNOTFEST, the music and counterculture experience destination festival kicks off in Australia next week with a whole horde of surprises lying in wait and KNOTFEST 2024 ticketholders are in for a treat. We’re stoked to announce the return of SLIPKNOT for KNOTFEST 2025 to celebrate their 25th Anniversary, together with a huge line-up to be announced later in the year. Only KNOTFEST 2024 ticketholders will receive exclusive access to the first release of tickets to KNOTFEST 2025, which will be prior to all other presales.

Pantera and Disturbed will headline the Knotfest 2024 dates due to start on 21 March in Melbourne.

KNOTFEST AUSTRALIA 2024

DATES AND VENUES: Thursday 21 March 2024 – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne Saturday 23 March 2024 – Centennial Park, Sydney Sunday 24 March 2024 – Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane

LINE UP: Pantera | Disturbed | Lamb Of God | Halestorm | The HU | Asking Alexandria Wage War | Escape The Fate | Thy Art Is Murder | Skindred | SPEED Windwaker | Brand Of Sacrifice | King Parrot

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Slipknot Bring Their Anniversary Tour To Headline Knotfest Australia 2025

KNOTFEST , the music and counterculture experience destination festival kicks off in Australia next week with a whole horde of surprises lying in wait and  KNOTFEST 2024 ticketholders are in for a treat.

We’re stoked to announce the return of SLIPKNOT   for  KNOTFEST 2025 to celebrate their 25 th  Anniversary , together with a huge line-up to be announced later in the year.

Only KNOTFEST 2024 ticketholders will receive exclusive access to the first release of tickets to KNOTFEST 2025 , which will be prior to all other presales.

If you haven’t purchased your tickets to KNOTFEST 2024 , now Is the time!

Headlined by PANTERA and DISTURBED , the sweltering 2024 festival line-up also includes LAMB OF GOD , HALESTORM , THE HU , ASKING ALEXANDRIA , WAGE WAR , ESCAPE THE FATE, THY ART IS MURDER , SKINDRED , SPEED , WINDWAKER , BRAND OF SACRIFICE and KING PARROT.

Tickets on sale now at  https://knotfest.com/ australia/

KNOTFEST AUSTRALIA 2024

DATES AND VENUES: Thursday 21 March 2024 – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne Saturday 23 March 2024 – Centennial Park, Sydney Sunday 24 March 2024 – Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane

LINE UP: Pantera | Disturbed | Lamb Of God | Halestorm | The HU | Asking Alexandria Wage War | Escape The Fate | Thy Art Is Murder | Skindred | SPEED Windwaker | Brand Of Sacrifice | King Parrot

Stay up to date on all things KNOTFEST over at  https://knotfest.com/ australia/  and by following on socials.

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Slipknot announce 25th anniversary headline set at Knotfest Australia 2025

With this month’s Knotfest Australia not featuring Slipknot, the band have confirmed that they’ll be taking their 25th anniversary celebrations down under next year instead…

Slipknot have announced that they’ll be headlining next year’s Knotfest Australia.

Ahead of the 2024 edition of their travelling fest – which doesn’t feature the masked metal icons, and instead includes the likes of Disturbed , Halestorm , Skindred and more – the band have revealed that they’ll be taking their 25th anniversary celebrations down under in 2025 (and presumably their new mystery drummer , too?!). They haven’t yet confirmed the full line-up, but watch this space for more news when we have it. In the meantime, Knotfest Australia 2024 will hit Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this month.

In a recent interview , we asked Clown about the planned setlist for their 25th anniversary gigs (which will land in Europe and the UK this winter ), and if the ’Knot will be playing their 1999 debut in full.

“Are you joking right now?” he said. “You’re talking about the anniversary of one of the greatest metal albums to ever release in the thought process known as reality, and you think this 54-year-old man who just told you ‘I’m going out the way I came in’, you think for one moment that this album isn’t going to be played in its entirety in front of, like, 100 people, 200 people, 300 people, 50,000 people?

“I’m not going to live forever, man,” he continued. “Neither is everybody else. Things are changing very quickly. I ain’t got no more time to fuck around. That is the vehicle of my soul, and the remembrance, the memories, the heartache of lost brothers and even sisters – all these people that are gone and we’re still doing it.

“Yeah, we’re going to play that album from beginning to end. But I sure as hell am not going to just succumb to the corporate world and give all those people what they want. They’re going to get it. But you know what we’re going to get? We’re going to have fun, too. So that means small shows and you won’t know until you hear it. And if you heard it, you’re already too late and you’re not going to see it. So you better open up your soul, because then you’ll feel it and you won’t have to hear it, because I’m being very serious…”

Catch Slipknot at the following European and UK dates:

5 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome 6 Dortmund, Germany – Westfalenhalle 8 Stuttgart, Germany – Schleyerhalle 9 Leipzig, Germany – Quarterback Immobilien Arena 11 Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion 12 Paris, France – Accorhotel Arena 14 Leeds, UK – First Direct Arena 15 Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro 17 Manchester, UK – Co-op Live Arena 18 Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena 20 London, UK – The O2 21 London, UK – The O2

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Knotfest Australia is Completely Sold Out, Set Times Announced

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Slipknot are bringing Knotfest to Australia for the first time later this month. All three events on the festival’s inaugural east coast run are now sold out. Slipknot will headline the three-date festival tour, alongside Parkway Drive , Megadeth , Trivium , Northlane , Spiritbox and plenty more.

UPDATE 24/03/2023: Bad Omens have pulled out of Knotfest Melbourne, set times change – details here

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It might still be possible to get your hands on a ticket – Knotfest Australia is utilising Ticketek’s fan-to-fan Marketplace , which lets customers buy and sell tickets in a safe and secure manner.

Knotfest Australia launches at Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse on Friday, 24th March. Sydney is next, with Centennial Park hosting the event on Saturday, 25th March. It wraps up in Brisbane at RNA Showgrounds on Sunday, 26th March.

Set times for all three events can be accessed via the Woov app . You can also find the details below.

Knotfest Melbourne – Set Times UPDATED*

• 11.50 – 12.20: Malevolence*
• 12.50 – 13.20: Alpha Wolf
• 13.50 – 14.30: Spiritbox
• 15.10 – 15.50: In Flames
• 16.35 – 17.20: Northlane
• 18.05 – 19.05: Megadeth
• 20.20 – 21.50: Slipknot
• 12.20 – 12.50: Void Of Vision
• 13.20 – 13.50: Knocked Loose
• 14.30 – 15.10: Story of the Year
• 15.50 – 16.35: Amon Amarth
• 17.20 – 18.05: Trivium
• 19.05 – 20.20: Parkway Drive

Knotfest Sydney – Set Times

• 11.50 – 12.20: Bad Omens
• 11.20 – 11.50: Malevolence

Knotfest Brisbane – Set Times

• 12.20 – 12.50: Bad Omens
• 13.20 – 13.50: Alpha Wolf
• 14.20 – 15.00: Spiritbox
• 15.40 – 16.20: In Flames
• 17.05 – 17.50: Northlane
• 18.35 – 19.35: Megadeth
• 20.50 – 22.20: Slipknot
• 11.50 – 12.20: Malevolence
• 12.50 – 13.20: Void Of Vision
• 13.50 – 14.20: Knocked Loose
• 15.00 – 15.40: Story of the Year
• 16.20 – 17.05: Amon Amarth
• 17.50 – 18.35: Trivium
• 19.35 – 20.50: Parkway Drive

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Lamb Of God Join Slipknot's Tour Of Australia & New Zealand

The mayhemic sojourn hits local shores this October

Celebrated US heavy-metal titans  Lamb Of God  will join nine-piece heavyweights  Slipknot  for the latter's recently announced Australian tour this October, it has been confirmed.

The band's addition to the touring bill popped up on the Facebook page of tour co-promoters  Live Nation  this evening, in a post explaining that Lamb Of God will perform as the tour's opening act for all dates on the upcoming sojourn.

Lamb Of God will hit Australia well warmed up from what will have been a near full year of touring; having released their seventh studio full-length,  VII: Sturm Und Drang  in July last year, the band has spent much of the past 12 months on stages and on the road in support of the work. The album yielded the veterans their fifth Grammy nomination since 2007 (Best Metal Performance for  512 ), and their impending appearance alongside Slipknot is yet another typically high-profile slot for the outfit, who have, over the years, blazed their way through spots on Ozzfest (twice), at several international festivals including Download, Soundwave and Mayhem, and as a mainstay of Metallica's World Magnetic Tour from 2008-2010.

Slipknot's tour of Australia with Lamb Of God gets under way at Brisbane's Entertainment Centre on Friday 28 October, with additional dates in Sydney and Melbourne. The Aussie run is preceded by a show in New Zealand, at Auckland's Vector Arena, on Wednesday 26 October. 

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I've seen Slipknot quite a few times now, and they ALLWAYS deliver a remarkable show, with proper energy, musical quality in their performance, and almost theatrical charismatics that keeps blowing me away.

The Telenor Arena's sound ALMOST ruined the experience, as it just can't handle this sort of scale audience, the whole audio-experience seems dull and horribly low quality if you move anywhere towards the middle of the crowd or backwards in the standing section of the audience.

First part of slipknot and All of behemoth was simply drowned out, and they somehow managed to turn the sound up a notch throughout the show.. but I won't be going back there, unless they either lower the prices or upp their sound-quality.

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Slipknot were amazing, first time seeing them live. However... the sound system was dire, we really had to shift forward to hear what was going on. We could only hear the bassline and some drums. Couldn’t hear guitars or vocals clear. My videos picked the sound up a little, but you can hear everyone talking it was that quiet. Only reason I say this is that I saw Korn play with Limp Bizkit at this same venue (Arena Birmingham) in 2016... and Ray Luziers drums standing at the back of the venue near where you walk in, his snares and kicks hit you in the chest like thunder, and you could hear the clarity of the vocals, guitars, bass, everything. This time around for Slipknot unfortunately the sound just wasn’t on par which is a shame

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Since I hadn’t seen them since Vol. 3, there is a lot of material I have never caught live yet. As I said, I like every Slipknot album. (Probably every Slipknot song if you don’t count demos and remixes). Unfortunately, they didn’t play anything off of ‘Gray Chapter this time, which I was a bit gutted by. I really like that album and would have loved to see something like ‘Custer,’ ‘AOV’ or ‘Sarcastrophe’ live. ‘Custer’ especially. From the first time I heard it I said to myself ”that is a song that will be in their setlists forevermore.” They also only played one song from All Hope Is Gone. I guess that’s reason enough to try see them a few more times, as I really want to catch more songs I haven’t heard live before. I’m keen to hear it all.

But given how great the new album is, I was most keen to see material from We Are Not Your Kind live. I was thinking about how much I wanted it on such a regular basis since end of the week that the album was released and it had all started to click with me. Turns out I was in luck, because if you count the 2018 stand-alone single ‘All Out Life’ which technically isn’t on the album (but which features the lyric ‘we are not your kind’ repeatedly chanted and I always mentally count as being part of that album, and have attached to the album in my itunes and on my phone and just pretend it is on the album anyway), then they played 5 new songs. Aforementioned ‘All Out Life.’ Big single ‘Unsainted,’ which opened the show. The dark, weird, almost formless album closer ‘Solway Firth.’ The groovy ‘Birth Of The Cruel’ and the stompy new single ‘Nero Forte.’ It was great to see this much new material live. It shows you how much confidence the band must have in the new album, and given the audience reaction, this confidence was well placed.

Not counting intros and outros over the speakers, there were 17 tracks. 6 of which I had never seen live before. Pretty great value. No wonder they didn’t have room for much material off All Hope’ or ‘Gray Chapter. The rest of the set featured the big singles from Vol 3; ‘Duality,’ ‘Before I Forget’ and ‘Vermillion’ as well as many classic concert favourites from the debut like ‘(Sic),’ ‘Surfacing’ and ‘Eyeless’ and topped off with a few of the heavier numbers from Iowa, like ‘Disasterpiece’ and ‘People=Shit.’

Slipknot are pretty great at mixing up sets, and not just playing the same thing every tour, swapping in a surprise or two, and dropping a few expected tunes now and again for a deep cut. The (sort of) surprises in the set were first album bonus-track ‘Eeyore’ and Iowa deepish-cut ‘New Abortion’ although I have seen both live before and both have been on official live releases so not super surprising if you want to be pedantic, but I was satisfied. In terms of dropping an expected tune, this time they dropped ‘Spit It Out’ which is almost unfathomable, as therefore they didn’t do the ‘’Jump The Fuck Up’’ moment, (where they make the whole crowd crouch for a few minutes then jump up in unison) but I’ve had that three times and on all their live albums too, so I was glad to lose it if it meant more time for new songs.

In terms of stage show, it was the biggest and best I’d ever seen them. There were videoscreens all over the place (even on the drums). There was pyro and steam. There were fireworks. There was a Nikki Sixx style bass guitar flamethrower like on Motley Crue’s The End DVD. There were treadmills which the more expendable members like the DJ, Sid, would go and play about on when not needed musically. He did the moonwalk on a treadmill at one point. Their setlist didn’t feature many turn-table focused songs this time so I guess he’s got to do something. Clown got a flaming baseball bat out for the keg smashes on ‘Duality.’

Performance and sound wise, it was really good. That’s not always a given. As much as love this band, they aren’t what I’d call consistent. Some bands are just perfect every single time (Hatebreed spring to mind). Slipknot are not one of those bands. I mean, when you have 9 members, complex awkward songs with atypical structures, and a singer inside a mask running around, its hard to get everything sounding perfect…

If you look across all of Slipknot’s official and unofficial live releases, you’ll notice they have been really hit and miss over the years in terms of both vocals and audio mix. Even on just their Voliminal DVD, which features footage from a few different shows, the live stuff goes from amazing to quite poor. The 9.0 live album which I mentioned earlier features material from across a whole tour, and that album has quite poor live vocals and subpar sound mixes. Conversely though the Disasterpeices and (Sic)nesses DVDs have superb live vocals and mixes and are absolutely must-own. The pro shot live stuff from various festivals on the first two album cycles is really mixed also. I remember MTV2 used to have footage of the band on the Iowa cycle in Germany, where Corey’s vocals were really muffled and the kick drums overpowered all the guitars. When I first got into them, on the debut album cycle, the only live stuff available was bootlegs, and they were always pretty rough. You could get pirate CDs from shows like their first time in London or from dates on the US Ozzfest, but you could tell from the CD that Corey was running around, bouncing and going crazy so much, that the vocals would suffer. Even my own live experiences of the band were mixed. When I saw them live myself in Belfast the mix and vocals were brilliant and its still one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. When I saw them headlining on the Vol. 3 cycle, the vocals were poor (he has discussed in interviews over the years that he was drinking heavily in that period) but the mix was great. When I saw them supporting Metallica on that same album cycle, the mix was poor but the vocals were good. As I said, its not a given.

I guess there’s a lot of variables for the soundmen to get right and lots of chances to get it wrong. Depending on how much running and bouncing singer Corey Taylor does, and how his mask affects the microphones, there’s a big gap between his best and his worst shows.

However, tonight it was great. It was pretty close to a perfect show. I mean, if I had to pick pedantic holes in it then I guess the guitar-intro to ‘Surfacing’ sounded a bit weird, and the vocals on the chorus to ‘Nero Forte’ were a bit thin, but otherwise it was magnificent.

The sound mix was perfectly balanced. Even the additional percussion was actually audible and you could tell why they have three drummers. The bass was thick. The guitars were clear and didn’t go muddy. The drum kit was powerful and you could pick every element out individually. The vocals were just right. I couldn’t have asked for a better mix.

The band were energetic and enthusiastic and played like a band on the rise. Drums were absolutely battered. Riffs were practically thrown into the crowd. I guess buoyed by the success of the new album, they are revitalised and fired-up. This was definitely the 2nd-best I ever seen them live; sceond only to that very first time I saw them, back in Belfast in 2002, which boasted many more songs from my favourite album, Iowa, in the set, and featured the classic line-up when they were still mysterious and I was wide-eyed and young. (And to be fair, my memory of that could in fact be a little clouded in a rose-tinted teenage nostalgia).

I always regretted not seeing them live on the last two album cycles, but I would have been heartbroken to miss them this time. Thank goodness for the weird phone/website discrepancy! This was awesome. One of the bands that have meant the most to me in my whole life, playing brilliantly, with a great setlist and sounding great. This is going to be a show I remember for a long time.

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