Beez: Why Slipknot Deserve Their Headlining Slot
It’s been announced that Slipknot will be headlining a UK festival for the first time at this year’s Download festival. Ten years on from their Roadrunner debut, it couldn’t be more deserved.
It was ten years ago that Slipknot released their second album, their first for Roadrunner. I’ll never forget the first time I heard it.
Like many of us, I’d seen what they looked like before hearing any music. A fellow publication described them as ‘the heavy metal Wu-Tang Clan’ (no, us neither), they wore masks that made them look more than a little gimmicky and it looked like it was going to be style over substance in the first degree.
How wrong can one be!? Dear lord, listening to that record was like being hit by a bus! No album ever heard by these ears have hit as hard as the first 5 tracks on that record. One after another, (Sic), Eyeless, Wait And Bleed, Surfacing and Spit It Out – Fuck. Me. Sideways.
That album was followed by a live show so savagely ferocious it turned venues up and down the UK into war-zones and since that moment, Slipknot haven’t let up steam. Iowa pissed on the notion that second albums are difficult, Volume 3 was Slipknot adding an extra melodic dimension to their own brand of brutality and All Hope Is Gone has cemented their standing as one of the biggest metal bands in existence.
It’s for all of these reasons, their insistent devotion to putting on huge stage shows, the ever-improving abilities of Joey Jordison and Corey Taylor and, most importantly, their ability to cough up anthem after anthem for 90 minutes straight that Slipknot truly deserve their biggest moment to date in front of 60,000 people.
Fray the strings, throw the sheathes and hold your breath – June 13th is going to be one hell of a night.
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shows how much of a joke Download has become that they have to resort to bands like slipknot to headline.
roll on bloodstock, knebworth and Damnation!
It has been said nowhere that they are headlining
Download would never allow a headliner to leak
Never happened before never will
Slipknot as a joke?
Shit mate, i’ve seen ‘tallica, AC/DC Rammstein, KISS, Slayer, Motely Crue, Maiden, Priest (do i have to go on), like so many of the metal troopers online here and i would say Slikpnot are one of the most incredible live acts around.
i’ve seen all of the above including slipknot live. slipknot do not even come close to any of them. i hate KISS, but they were far better live than Slipknot could ever hope to be. highly over rated, nothing else.
Come back and say that on Monday, Aidan.
hooooooooooooooooooooly shit !
SLIPKNOT is the best band live that ive ever seen
corey voice back and slipknot have awesome set now !
THIS IS THE BEST DOWNLOAD
SLIPKNOT IS THE BEST BAND WITH THE BEST FRONTMAN !
If true excellent headline choice. Far better than Linkin Park, fucking Offspring or even worse Lostprophets. Those were awful years for Download and now they have to crawl back. Looks like the pound signs have gone from Andy Copping eyes and he’s listened to the fans for a fucking change.
Yeah, it’s well deserved.
Yeah I thought they would have the Friday night but not the Saturday but hey they are still headlining! x3
Cant wait till Monday! x3
Hope Rammstein are playing! x3
to answer to bob gagare.. you can suck my hairy broardsword slipknot have been one of the most influential bands of our life time and have continued to produce the most unique sounds out there. they fully deserve to headline download and should have headlined fucking years ago!!
Been waiting for this since the first time Slipknot played Download! A show as grand as theirs demandss a headline spot!
SEE YOU IN THE PIT!
The thing is, no matter who the fuck is playing, you won’t give a shit anyway. You’d be drunk as fuck that you would’nt no difference xD!
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the ‘knot OWN…no debate =), agree with the drunkness, but a decent pit wouldnt go a waste ha
FOR ALL OF YOU WHO DON’T LIKE SLIPKNOT, IT GOES MIND OVER MATTER, WE DON’T MIND AND YOU SURE AS HELL DON’T MATTER!!! Look at all their awards!! Album of the year 2008, front person – (Corey Taylor) of the year, Best drumer (Joe) of the year, Best single of the year, Best video of the year!!! They freaken awesome!! They Legends!!! I LOVE YOU SLIPKNOT, BEEN A PROUD SUPPORTER FOR NINE YEARS NOW!! AND PROUD TO BE!! Mwa mwa mwa mwa
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Looking forward to this and have been for along time.
My brother and 6 of our friends are going as just to see chris from slipknot do his thing. We are all going as slipknot people complete with slipknot costumes and slipknot latex masks that we got from signaturecostumes.co.uk which where the only uk place that had any of the chris and mick latex masks left. It going to been our first time seeing slipknot.
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