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Description: The Iowan, Grammy Award-winning metallers play tracks from their new album, All Hope Is Gone.
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Metal for maggots with Slipknot
Rick Pearson, Evening Standard 02.12.08
Who is that masked man? Slipknot’s Corey Taylor barks at the audience
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Last night, Hammersmith Apollo was crawling with more maggots than a fisherman’s bait box. I refer, of course, to the nickname given fans of the nine-headed, heavy metal monster Slipknot, who came to cheer on their masked messiahs for the first of three nights at the west London venue.
The Iowan band are promoting their fourth full-length, All Hope Is Gone, the latest slice of dense, vitriolic metal to add to the Slipknot canon.
But they started with a riotous version of Surfacing from their eponymous 1999 debut. It set the tone: bludgeoning beats, gunshot guitars and a worldview offered by frontman Corey Taylor blacker than the group’s wardrobe.
Elsewhere, Before I Forget (which won Slipknot a Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2006) built to a fist-pumping chorus and suggested there was craft to match the chaos.
Yet there remains something pantomimic about Slipknot: the ridiculous garb, macho posturing and the feel that, despite the surprising amount of adult’s in attendance, this isn’t music to be taken too seriously.
Not that there was anything staged about the vicious moshpits. Five songs in, during the thumping Liberate, a teenage boy had to be helped out of the venue.
However, there was a strong feeling of camaraderie at last night’s show – something Taylor alluded to. “There’s a lot of people outside these four walls who don’t understand us,” he barked.
There was one inside who didn’t really either – and two if you count my bewildered plus one. But as the incendiary Spit It Out raged into the night, there were glimpses as to what got the maggots hooked on this brutal, bludgeoning band.
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you are the best band in the world i am 11 years old my big sis went to see you and she has the drummers jummper.
- Emma Mcqueer, scotland-glasgow
I thought I would never like this type of music, I went with a friend last night and it has certainly changed my view!
Slipnknot were wicked, one of the best live shows I have seen!
- Nick, leigh on sea
It does amuse me when, so called, music commentators try to come up with all manner of fancy speak to fill out an article to justify their salaries. I go to all manner of concerts a year, partnering my wife and last night was just an awsome show. Theatre is important! With no visual feast it's just not the same. My 10 year old came with us and thought it was 'immense'! If you go to write about a band like this, you have to have a VERY open mind.......thought they spent my ticket money really well.
Who else provides you with a drummer who performs upside down!
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- Jowly, Ascot
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