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Slipknot announce Mexico City headline show with BABYMETAL and Orbit Culture
As part of their 25th anniversary touring plans, Slipknot have just announced what is apparently their first-ever headline date in Mexico City!
- Words:
- Emily Carter
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- Andy Ford
Slipknot have got a buuuuusy rest of 2024. Next month they’ll be kicking off their big North American headline run – with their very special hometown Knotfest Iowa then taking place in September. After that they’ll be playing two different sets at Knotfest Brazil in October, and of course they are also coming back to the UK and Europe at the end of the year.
In between all that fun stuff, though, they’ve also just added a new headline date – and it’s a big one, because it’s apparently the band’s first-ever headline show in Mexico City! Taking place on November 9, it’ll see the ’Knot joined by special guests BABYMETAL, as well as Orbit Culture who are also supporting them in North America very soon.
All these gigs are part of this year’s massive anniversary celebrations for Slipknot’s self-titled debut album, which was released in 1999.
When Kerrang! asked Clown in an interview if they’ll be playing the whole thing on tour, he replied: “Are you joking right now? You’re talking about the anniversary of one of the greatest metal albums to ever release in the thought process known as reality, and you think this 54-year-old man who just told you ‘I’m going out the way I came in’, you think for one moment that this album isn’t going to be played in its entirety in front of, like, a hundred people, 200 people, 300 people, 50,000 people. I’m not going to live forever, man. Neither is everybody else. Things are changing very quickly. I ain’t got no more time to fuck around. That is the vehicle of my soul, and the remembrance, the memories, the heartache of lost brothers and even sisters – all these people that are gone and we’re still doing it.
“Yeah, we’re going to play that album from beginning to end. But I sure as hell am not going to just succumb to the corporate world and give all those people what they want. They’re going to get it. But you know what we’re going to get? We’re going to have fun, too…”
