Slipknot have again postponed their upcoming edition of Knotfest Japan, first scheduled for 2020 and most recently moved to April 2022. It’s now been pushed another full year to April 1–2, 2023.The reason for the postponement is the same, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which initially forced Slipknot to cancel this Japanese installment of their signature fest in March 2020. It was then moved to January 2021 and, later, the 2022 dates. This week, Slipknot and the organizers for the…
This week, kid musicians from the O’Keefe Music Foundation picked up what they started in 2016 with their series of Slipknot cover songs.On Wednesday (Nov. 17), the rotating group of young rockers shared a music video for their take on Slipknot’s “Wait and Bleed” that finds fellow juveniles trashing a neighborhood as the band, led by a 9-year-old singer, performs inside a suburban residential garage.But that’s the last destructive music video from O’Keefe, the nonprofit outreach insisted in a statement. If so,…
Slipknot’s vocalist Corey Taylor recently addressed the Astroworld tragedy during a concert. You can watch the fan-recorded video below.Last weekend (Nov. 5) eight people were killed and hundreds were injured at Travis Scott’s Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas, according to Vulture. A ninth victim died on Nov. 10. About 50,000 people were attending the show.Concertgoers ran towards the stage at around 9:30 p.m. during Scott’s set, leading to 25 people being hospitalized and eight…
Slipknot’s unrelenting-bullet-train-of-a-new-single “The Chapeltown Rag” dropped last week to the delight of maggots all over the net. Some of their reactions were “pure banger” and “It’s all every Slipknot album in one song” and “that new slipknot song has no right to go this hard holy shit.”But the title of “The Chapeltown Rag” isn’t exactly a widely known pop, or metal, culture reference. So what is the song about? In an interview with Knotfest, Corey Taylor breaks it down.Taylor watched a Netflix…
Slipknot performed their brand new single, “The Chapeltown Rag” live for the first time last night (Nov. 5) at Knotfest in Los Angeles. The concert was filmed as a livestream and aired today. You can watch the video of the performance below.The concert took place at the Bank of California Stadium and featured support from Bring Me the Horizon, Killswitch Engage, Fever 333, Code Orange, Vended and Corey Taylor’s wife Alicia Taylor’s dance group Cherry…