- Slipknot have announced their Here Comes the Pain tour dates in North America
- The band is scheduled to begin the first leg of their North American tour on August 6.
- Orbiculture and Vended will also be on tour with Slipknot
The highly acclaimed nu metal band Slipknot will celebrate the anniversary of their debut album on tour.
The band announced today on their social media pages that their Here Comes the Pain 25th Anniversary North American tour dates will begin on August 6th.
“Every time I’ve been on stage, it’s never been a question of how many people are there because my culture, the maggots, always show up,” founding member Shawn “Clown” Crahan told Pitchfork.
“But as we grew as a group, we experienced fewer and fewer intimate, personal moments, trading them in for massive ones.”
The band is looking to make their tour “more personal on this anniversary,” and Crahan is warning fans to prepare to get their faces kicked.
Two other bands joining Slipknot on their 25th anniversary tour are Orbitculture and Vended.
Slipknot will close out their headlining tour at this year’s Knotfest Iowa music festival in their hometown on September 21st.
Crahan, Joey Jordison, Anders Colsefni, Donnie Steele, Josh “Gnar” Brainard and Paul Gray founded Slipknot in Des Moines in 1995.
Colsefni and Steele left Slipknot before the release of the group’s self-titled debut album.
However, by the time of their departure, current members Mick Thomson, Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson and Jim Root had joined the band.
The other two musicians who were previously members of Slipknot in 1999 are Chris Fehn and Craig ‘133’ Jones.
Their debut album did not reach the top 50 on the Billboard 200 chart, but it reached number one on the magazine’s Heatseekers chart.
According to MTV News, their debut album sold 360,000 copies six months after its initial release.
-Crahan told MTV News in 2000 that the group “don’t do anything unless it’s good, unless it feels good.”
“It’s weird for us, because we’ve been saying these things since the beginning. But now people are starting to pay attention to it,” he added.
The band earned their first Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance, and the album has since gone double platinum.
The group’s fame only grew and their second album, Iowa, managed to debut at number three on the Billboard 200 in 2001.
Two of Iowa’s songs were nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 2002 Grammy Awards.
Slipknot were nominated for two more Grammy Awards in 2005 before winning Best Metal Performance for Before I Forget in 2006.
Crahan dedicated the award to his deceased father shortly before the ceremony, but at least two members of Slipknot didn’t keep their trophies on a shelf in their homes.
“I think I used it as a doorstop for a while. Then I put it in the back of my toilet,” Root said in a 2014 Google Play interview.
The band has racked up a total of 11 Grammy nominations, one of them being Best Metal Performance for their song Hive Mind last year.
The group has had members come and go, including Gray and Jordison, who died in 2010 and 2021.
Jones and longtime drummer Jay Weinberg also left Slipknot last year.
However, Slipknot announced yesterday on their social media that Eloy Casagrande will be the group’s new drummer.
For now, the band has not announced the musician who will replace Jones.
