As previously reported by
Ticketmaster.com,
SLIPKNOT will be headlining the inaugural installment of their own
festival, "Knotfest", on Friday, August 17 at Mid America Motorplex in
Pacific Junction, Iowa and on
August 18th in Somerset, on the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota. The
shows will find Slipknot joined by the Deftones, Lamb of God, Deathlok,
Serj Tankian, the Urge, Cannibal Corpse and more. Here is what SLIPKNOT's percussionist and visionary Shawn Crahan had to say about the bands NEW musical venture:
"It's all about having fun and bringing something to the world of Rock N' Roll, bringing it to the standard it used to be," Slipknot's
Shawn "Clown" Crahan told Rolling Stone. "It's time for us to
really engulf this idea known as Knotfest where we're in control, we
make a day devoted to our mindset, our ideas, the people that we want to
play with, the people that we think our fans want to be around."
"When everyone leaves their senses [will be] overloaded, and I'm
talking about smells, sights, hearing, your body, everything is
overloaded with stimulation, because that's what Slipknot does," Crahan
says.
Among the activities the festival is offering as part of its "dark
carnival experience" are circus big-top tents, pillars of fire,
amusement park rides, burlesque performers, firebreathers, stilt
walkers, drum circles made of junkyard cars and graffiti walls. Additionally, the two
shows will also debut a SLIPKNOT museum.
Knotfest is something the band has always wanted to do, according to
Crahan. And the time is right. "Now, after 15 years, things feel right,
things feel complete, things feel like we can accomplish anything. And
I love challenges," he says.
"When the tragedy of our life happened (the death of Paul Gray), instead of going away we
decided, 'No, that's not the right thing to do. Let's go out, let's
share the way we feel with the people that feel like we feel,'" Crahan
says. "So last summer we embarked on a tour, then we went to South
America and opened up for Metallica in Rock In Rio. We just got back
from Australia, and now we're gonna embark on another fantastic
one-of-a-kind tour (Mayhem Fest), ending this thought process that's been consumed by
these feelings about a great loss."
After closing this chapter, the band will move on. "We're going to
take our personal time to do what it is we feel we need to do to get
ready for the new record that's gonna come out sooner than anybody
knows," says Crahan.
Expect Knotfest to be an ongoing tradition, even if Slipknot isn't
always on the bill. "It's something that we want to be in control of so
much that it can exist without us," Crahan says.
Scheduled performers for Knotfest:
SLIPKNOT
DEFTONES
LAMB OF GOD
DETHKLOK
SERJ TANKIAN
THE URGE
PRONG
CANNIBAL CORPSE
Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. CDT.
SLIPKNOT will be making their return to the United
States and will be headlining the 2012 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem
Festival! Here is the complete list of tour dates:
6/30 – San Bernardino, CA
7/1 – San Francisco, CA
7/3 – Seattle, WA
7/6 – Phoenix, AZ
7/7 – Albuquerque, NM
7/8 – Denver, CO
7/10 – Dallas, TX
7/11 – Houston, TX
7/13 – Tampa, FL
7/14 – Atlanta, GA
7/15 – Indianapolis, IN
7/18 – Oklahoma City, OK
7/20 – St. Louis, MO
7/21 – Chicago, IL
7/22 – Detroit, MI
7/24 – Cincinnati, OH
7/25 – Cleveland, OH
7/27 – Philadelphia, PA
7/28 – Pittsburgh, PA
7/29 – Washington, DC
7/31 – Saratoga, NY
8/1 – Buffalo, NY
8/3 – Boston, MA
8/4 – Scranton, PA
8/5 – Hartford, CT
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