Slipknot

"I promise I’m doing everything I can to be as healthy as I can be," the singer wrote Corey Taylor will not be going on the road this year. The Slipknot frontman announced “with a heavy heart” on Friday that he would be stepping away from his upcoming run of shows to focus on his health. “For the past several months my mental and physical health have been breaking down, and I reached a place that was unhealthy for my family and me,” he wrote on Instagram. “I know this decision will come as a…

Slipknot is heading to the UK and Europe for a headline tour, ‘Here Comes the Pain’, in 2024. The run will see the heavy metal band celebrating their 25 years together and the shows promise to be multi-sensory and explosive. The run kicks off at Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 5th December, canvases continental Europe with arena dates in Germany, France and Switzerland, and concludes at the world-famous O2 Arena in London on 20th December. Says clown of the upcoming shows: “It has been 25 years since we…

Slipknot split with drummer Jay Weinberg, announcing last weekend that they had decided “to part ways” with the percussionist. On Saturday, Weinberg revealed that he had not anticipated their decision to let him go. “I was heartbroken and blindsided to receive the phone call that I did on the morning of November 5th; the news of which, most of you learned shortly after,” Weinberg wrote on Instagram. “However, I’ve been overwhelmed by — and truly grateful for — the outpouring of love and support I’ve received from…

Few festivals provide a more dramatic contrast to their surroundings than Hellfest, a heavy metal music festival that took place last weekend in the peaceful countryside of Clisson near Nantes in northwestern France.Lined by quiet, bucolic vineyards, inside it’s a vista from Mad Max: an open-air arena with fire-belching metal structures and laser-lit fountains situated amid a gothic steampunk wonderland. Past the arena there is a purpose-built town square, a comic book Camden complete with bars, barber and tattoo parlour.…

Wednesday was an eventful day for Slipknot fans. It marked the start of the vaunted heavy metal band’s European tour but also saw the departure of two familiar masked faces from the group — and the arrival of a potential new one. Sampler and keyboardist Craig “133” Jones announced his departure after 27 years from the Grammy-winning megaband whose nine members perform in various chilling masks. A now-deleted message posted to Slipknot’s social channels stated, “To our fans, Slipknot is announcing that we have parted ways…

Over the course of their two-decade career, Iowa heavy metallers Slipknot have stayed so laser-focused on their modus operandi – channeling messy anger into face-melting rock songs while dressed in jumpsuits and pungent-looking Halloween masks – that they’ve become essentially impervious to music’s changing tides. Their last three albums all topped the US Billboard charts, while the accompanying tour for next month’s seventh album, The End, So Far, finds the octet playing arenas everywhere from the Czech Republic to…