Knotfest Australia: Slipknot stop concert as fans climb huge speaker towers
Heavy metal group Slipknot was forced to halt two of its Australian shows when fans took to the speaker towers at concerts in Melbourne and Brisbane.
The nine-piece masked band from Des Moines, Iowa toured Australia’s east coast last week as part of their Knotfest global music and arts festival.
While their main performance in Sydney went off without a hitch, revelers from the other two cities posed a safety risk when they climbed the massive towers.
During the Melbourne show on March 24, Slipknot stopped their set in accordance with festival rules and scolded a daredevil fan who had made it to the top of the tower, which was located in a roped-off area in the middle of the crowd.
As the concert-goer came down from the tower, fans chanted: ‘Shame! Pity!’ before he was escorted out of the area by security.
Heavy metal group Slipknot was forced to halt two of its Australian shows when fans took to the speaker towers at concerts in Melbourne and Brisbane. During the Melbourne show on March 24, the band stopped their set and scolded a daredevil fan who had made it to the top of the tower, which was located in a roped-off area in the middle of the crowd (pictured).
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor later addressed the moment onstage.
‘I can’t take you crazy motherfuckers anywhere, man. Jesus Christ,’ he said. ‘I got you climbing shit, jumping shit, rolling in shit. What the fuck!
‘Alright. I can’t be mad at you,” he added, before revealing tricks like that why Australia is one of her “favorite countries in the whole world.”
As the concert-goer came down from the tower, fans chanted: ‘Shame! Pity!’ before he was escorted out of the area by security
Two days later, when the band headlined Knotfest Brisbane on March 26, a similar stunt occurred when a shirtless fan scaled the metal structure.
The Queensland fans weren’t quite as polite, chanting in unison ‘f**kwit! Shit! while the man came down from the high point.
Taylor, 49, addressed the incident again, saying: “Now that we know what’s going to happen when the next son of a bitch climbs that damn tower…
‘Are you ready to continue the damn show?’
Two days later, when the band headlined Knotfest Brisbane on March 26, a similar stunt occurred when a shirtless fan scaled the metal structure.
The Queensland fans weren’t quite as polite, chanting in unison ‘f**kwit! Shit! while the man came down from the high point
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor addressed the incident onstage, saying, “Now that we know what’s going to happen when the next motherfucker climbs that damn tower…”
Thousands of metalheads flocked to the mosh pit in wild outfits for Knotfest over the weekend.
The 2023 lineup also featured genre heavyweights Parkway Drive, Megadeath, Trivium and Swedish heavy metal icons Amon Marth.
Knotfest, the global heavy metal and arts festival founded by Slipknot, was first announced in 2012 and backed the promise of a “dark carnival experience” complete with circus tents and carnival rides.
Thousands of metalheads flocked to the mosh pit in wild outfits for Knotfest over the weekend. The 2023 lineup also includes genre heavyweights Parkway Drive, Megadeath, Trivium and Swedish heavy metal icons Amon Marth. (Pictured: Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor)
Since then, the festival has toured every year to countries around the world, including Japan, Mexico, Colombia, Finland, Germany, France, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina.
He has also played onstage for a myriad of the biggest names in the genre, including Marilyn Manson, Korn, and Deftones.
The festival’s founders and headliners Slipknot toured Australia one last time in October 2016 in support of their album 5: The Gray Chapter.
Festival founders and headliners Slipknot went on one final tour of Australia in October 2016 in support of their album 5: The Gray Chapter.
They were scheduled to support Metallica at a series of stadium shows in late 2019, but the tour was canceled when Metallica singer James Hetfield checked into rehab.
Slipknot’s last studio album, The End, So Far, was met with critical and commercial success upon its release.
The album garnered several No. 1 charts internationally, debuting at No. 1 in Australia.
Slipknot’s last studio album, The End, So Far, was met with critical and commercial success upon its release. The album garnered several No. 1 positions internationally.