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We head down to Slipknot’s Here Comes The Pain tour in Manchester to meet the Maggots that had their lives changed forever by nine masked men from the cornfields…
Vended vocalist and Corey Taylor’s son Griffin joined his dad’s band onstage in Bucharest to perform ultra-heavy fan-favourite Custer.
Slipknot kicked off their European tour at RomExpo in Bucharest on July 20 – and for their first show back across the pond, frontman Corey Taylor brought his son onstage during the set.
Corey’s son Griffin – frontman of young metallers Vended, who are supporting Slipknot at several dates this summer – came out to help lend his excellent roar (like father, like son…) to fan-favourite Custer, shouting along, ‘Cut cut cut me up and fuck fuck fuck me up.’
Elsewhere during the 19-song setlist, Slipknot opened with Disasterpiece before heading on a career-spanning journey with Wait And Bleed, All Out Life, Sulfur and Before I Forget. Then they played 2021 single The Chapeltown Rag – but interestingly the just-released Dying Song (both from upcoming album The End, So Far) wasn’t performed. The likes of Psychosocial, Duality, Spit It Out, People = Shit and Surfacing were also played. Ooooft!
Watch Griffin singing Custer with his dad and Slipknot below:
See the full setlist:
1. Disasterpiece
2. Wait And Bleed
3. All Out Life
4. Sulfur
5. Before I Forget
6. The Chapeltown Rag
7. Dead Memories
8. Unsainted
9. The Heretic Anthem
10. Psychosocial
11. The Devil In I
12. Snuff
13. Vermilion
14. Duality
15. Custer (with Griffin Taylor)
16. Spit It Out
Encore:
17. (515)
18. People = Shit
19. Surfacing
'Til We Die