Slipknot announces 25th anniversary tour across US and Europe with band ... trends now
The highly acclaimed nu metal band Slipknot will be celebrating the anniversary of their first album on the road.
The band announced on their social media pages today that their North American tour dates for their Here Comes the Pain 25th anniversary tour would begin on August 6.
'Every time I’ve walked onstage, it’s never been about how many people have been there because my culture, the maggots, always show up,' founding member Shawn 'Clown' Crahan told Pitchfork.
'But as we’ve grown as a band, we have had fewer and fewer of those intimate, personal moments, trading them for massive ones.'
The band is looking to make their tour 'more personal on the anniversary,' and Crahan is warning fans to prepare to have their faces kicked in.
Two other bands that will be joining Slipknot on their 25th anniversary tour are Orbitculture and Vended.
Slipknot will close out their tour by headlining this year's Knotfest Iowa music festival in their hometown on September 21.
Slipknot announced the North America dates of their Here Comes the Pain 25th Anniversary tour on the band's social media pages this morning
The band will kick off the first leg of the US shows on August 6 in Indiana and give their final performance at this year's Knotfest Iowa music festival on September 21
The band formed in Des Moines, Iowa in 1995 and lead singer Shawn 'Clown' Crahan is currently the only founding member left in the band
Crahan, Joey Jordison, Anders Colsefni, Donnie Steele, Josh 'Gnar' Brainard and Paul Gray founded Slipknot in Des Moines back in 1995.
Colsefni and Steele left Slipknot before the release of the band's self-titled debut album.
However, by the time they departed, current members Mick Thomson, Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson, and Jim Root had joined the band.
The two other musicians who were previously members of Slipknot in 1999 are Chris Fehn and Craig '133' Jones.
Their debut album didn't crack the
