Slipknot are set to play a one-off intimate gig this week – discover out extra beneath.
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Per the band’s new You Can’t Kill Me web site – which first made headlines after a brand new billboard popped up in California earlier this month – the band shall be enjoying to a crowd of 350 attendees on the Pappy + Harriet’s barbecue bar in Pioneertown, California on Thursday (April 25).
Tickets to the occasion are actually fully bought out, however price USD$9 per ticket, with a strict restrict of two tickets per buy. It’ll mark the band’s first present of the yr, in addition to their first present with the Iowan steel band’s new drummer, who has but to be confirmed.
Slipknot shall be donating the entire present’s proceeds to the Joshua Tree No Kill Shelter and BOYS & GIRLS CLUB of the Hello Desert.
The upcoming intimate gig comes after percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan instructed NME that the band are “going again to fundamentals” this yr to rejoice their twenty fifth anniversary. “We’re going again to fundamentals. I’m able to kick everyone within the face once more! I’m able to do a 100-person venue once more! I’m able to do a 500-person venue…”
The gig comes at a time when rumours of latest music from the band has been percolating amongst their fanbase.
The final album the nu-metal icons launched was ‘The Finish, So Far’, which arrived again in August 2022. It proved to be the final full-length LP earlier than the departure of each keyboardist Craig Jones, who left the group in June, and Jay Weinberg, who was out of the blue kicked out of the line-up shortly after.
Within the time since, Slipknot have been teasing followers with hints a couple of new drummer, posting a photograph of a single damaged drumstick on-line with the caption “Rehearsal.” Nevertheless, in line with the feedback on the submit, it appears to be like just like the band have greater than reside reveals deliberate.
In different Slipknot information, followers have grow to be more and more sure that they’ve labored out the identification of the brand new drummer – speculating that the brand new member is former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande. This comes following the Brazilian steel band lately asserting that that they had parted methods with the longtime member forward of their last world tour.
Chatting with NME about what Slipknot have deliberate for 2024, founding member Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan stated: “I’m prepared to maneuver on from what has been, and transfer onto a world that I do know must be. As an example, usually we’d have about two years on and one-and-a-half years off — we’re not doing that anymore.”
They can even be returning to the UK this winter to rejoice the twenty fifth anniversary of their self-titled debut album. Go to right here for remaining tickets.