Slipknot donned 1999-style crimson jumpsuits and masks for his or her first live performance of 2024 on Thursday (April twenty fifth), kicking off a year-long twenty fifth anniversary celebration of their traditional self-titled album. The present additionally marked the masked steel act’s first gig with its new drummer, presumed to be ex-Sepultura stickman Eloy Casagrande.
The membership present at Pappy & Harriet’s Palace in Pioneertown, California, was booked as a warm-up gig for Slipknot’s co-headlining set on the Sick New World competition in Las Vegas on Saturday (April twenty seventh).
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At one level throughout the live performance, frontman Corey Taylor exclaimed, “Tonight it doesn’t matter the place you got here from, it doesn’t matter if you had been born. This 12 months is 19-fucking-99. We’re going to play you some songs from past that 12 months, however goddamn it, it began in ’99 and it’s beginning once more right here tonight.”
Slipknot’s 15-song set featured 5 tunes from the 1999 self-titled effort, together with “Eyeless,” “Prosthetics,” “Wait and Bleed,” “Spit It Out,” and “Surfacing.” The band additionally performed favorites like “Individuals = Shit,” “Psychosocial,” and “Duality.”
As talked about, the present was the band’s first efficiency with their new drummer, following the ouster of Jay Weinberg final final 12 months. Whereas the brand new man behind the package was clearly masked for the Pioneertown present, varied clues over the previous few months have pointed to Eloy Casagrande, who abruptly left Sepultura earlier this 12 months.
If Slipknot’s drummer is certainly Casagrande, he could be a part of a weird severe of transactions that resulted in him leaving Sepultura for Slipknot; Grayson Nekrutman exiting Suicidial Tendencies for Sepultura; and Weinberg becoming a member of Suicidal Tendencies after his dismissal from Slipknot.
As of now, Slipknot are slated to play a collection of US festivals, together with Sick New World, Welcome to Rockville, Sonic Temple, Louder Than Life, and Aftershock, with tickets accessible right here. Additionally they have a few exhibits in Mexico booked for November, in addition to a UK/European tour slated for December (get tickets right here).
See fan-filmed video of Slipknot performing in Pioneertown under, adopted by the setlist.
Setlist:
Individuals = Shit
Eyeless
Disasterpiece
Earlier than I Overlook
Custer
Psychosocial
The Satan in I
The Heretic Anthem
Unsainted
Wait and Bleed
Prosthetics
Vermilion
Encore:
Duality
Spit It Out
Surfacing