Heavy metal group Slipknot was forced to stop two of their Australian shows when fans climbed the speaker towers at concerts in Melbourne and Brisbane.
The masked nine-piece band from Des Moines, Iowa, toured Australia’s east coast last week as part of their global Knotfest music and arts festival.
While their headline performance in Sydney went off without a hitch, revellers at the two other cities posed a safety risk when they climbed up the massive towers.
During the Melbourne show on March 24, Slipknot halted their set in accordance with festival rules and scolded a daredevil fan who had reached the top of the tower, which was set up in a cordoned-off area in the middle of the crowd.
As the concertgoer climbed down from the tower, fans yelled out ‘Shame! Shame!’ before he was escorted away from the area by security.
Heavy metal group Slipknot was forced to stop two of their Australian shows when fans climbed the speaker towers at concerts in Melbourne and Brisbane. During the Melbourne show on March 24, the band halted its set and scolded a daredevil fan who had reached the top of the tower, which was set up in a cordoned-off area in the middle of the crowd (pictured)
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor later addressed the moment on stage.
‘I can’t take you crazy motherf**kers anywhere, man. Jesus Christ,’ he said. ‘Got you climbing s**t, jumping off s**t, rolling in s**t. What the f**k!’
‘It’s fine. I can’t stay mad at you,’ he added, before revealing stunts like that are why Australia is one of his ‘favourite f**king countries in the entire f**king world’.
As the concertgoer climbed down from the tower, fans yelled out ‘Shame! Shame!’ before he was escorted away from 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 so polite, chanting in unison ‘F**kwit! F**kwit!’ as the man climbed down from the high point.
Taylor, 49, again addressed the incident, saying: ‘Now that we know what’s going to happen when the next f**kwit climbs that f**king tower…
‘Are you ready to continue the f**king 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 so polite, chanting in unison ‘F**kwit! F**kwit!’ as the man climbed down from the high point
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor addressed the incident on stage, saying: ‘Now that we know what’s going to happen when the next f**kwit climbs that f**king tower… are you ready to continue the f**king show?’
Thousands of metalheads took to the mosh pit in wild outfits for Knotfest over the weekend.
The 2023 line-up 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 up a promise of a ‘dark carnival experience’ complete with circus big-top tents and amusement park rides.
Thousands of metalheads took to the mosh pit in wild outfits for Knotfest over the weekend. The 2023 line-up also features genre heavyweights Parkway Drive, Megadeath, Trivium and Swedish heavy metal icons Amon Marth. (Pictured: Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor)
The festival has since toured every year to countries across world, including Japan, Mexico, Colombia, Finland, Germany, France, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.
It has also played stage to a myriad of the genre’s largest names, including Marilyn Manson, Korn and Deftones.
Festival founders and headliners Slipknot last toured Australia in October 2016 in support of their album 5: The Gray Chapter.
Festival founders and headliners Slipknot last toured Australia in October 2016 in support of their album 5: The Gray Chapter
They were scheduled to support Metallica for a series of stadium shows in late 2019, but the tour was cancelled when Metallica singer James Hetfield checked into rehab.
Slipknot’s latest studio album, The End, So Far, was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release.
The album earned several No. 1 spots internationally, debuting at No. 1 in Australia.
Slipknot’s latest studio album, The End, So Far, was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release. The album earned several No. 1 spots internationally
