Slipknot, ‘heaviest band on the planet,’ to return to Resch Center for first time since 2005
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ASHWAUBENON – It took 17 years, but Slipknot is bringing the masks and metal back to the Resch Center.
The nine-man platinum-selling band from Des Moines, Iowa — dubbed “the heaviest band on the planet” by Rolling Stone — will make a stop at 6:30 p.m. April 6 for the Knotfest Roadshow Tour. In This Moment and Jinjer will open.
Tickets are $149.50, $109.50, $89.50, $69.50 and $49.50 for reserved bowl and $109.50 for general admission standing on the floor. Sales start at 10 a.m. Friday at ticketstaronline.com, 800-895-0071 and the Resch box office.
Slipknot returned to the road in 2021 with the Knotfest Roadshow. The first leg of the 2022 continuation kicks off March 16 and runs through April 17 with In This Moment and Jinjer on all dates. Cypress Hill and Ho99o9 take over as support acts for the second stretch beginning May 18 through June 18. That leg includes a June 4 stop at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy.
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The band last played the Resch in April 2005 for a show with Lamb of God, which just announced an April 22 co-headlining concert at the arena with Megadeth for The Metal Tour of the Year.
Corey Taylor, lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour, played two sold-out shows at EPIC Event Center in Ashwaubenon in June with the Cherry Bombs.
Slipknot’s follow-up album to 2019’s “We Are Not Your Kind” is expected to be released this year.
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Contact Kendra Meinert at 920-431-8347 or kmeinert@greenbay.gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @KendraMeinert.
Last Call with Scott Alderman, tour producer, metalhead and author
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Fans of heavy metal may remember the infamous 2000 “Tattoo the Earth Tour” with Slayer, Slipknot and Metallica headlining. Shrewsbury resident Scott Alderman was the producer and sat down with Last Call to talk about earning the enmity of Sharon Osbourne, organizing shows in rodeos and parking lots, making sure the stage didn’t catch fire (again) and his upcoming book, “Caravan of Pain” out March 15.
Why was the “Tattoo the Earth Tour” so infamous?
The tour struggled to come together — getting it off the ground while we had so many people and entities trying to stop us from doing it. When we started the tour, we were still building it, in a way. It began in the middle of July but we didn’t announce it until the middle of June. I didn’t know the end dates when we started or who was going to show up to the first show.
Plus we had Slipknot, who had just gone platinum, and they’re just an insane band, and their fans are insane.
Insane in a good way or bad way?
I think in a good way. I had a sense back then that the kids who go to our shows are not going to go shoot up their high school. They’re getting it out of their system — I always thought of it as giving them a place for that. But we got banned in Boston — we were so loud, there was so much cursing on the stage that old ladies were riding around trying to find the party to get it shut down. Within a couple days, the mayor banned Slipknot and Tattoo the Earth for life — and it was one of our better shows. We had like 12,000 people but we couldn’t tattoo because it was still illegal in Massachusetts. We couldn’t even do a demonstration.
Who was the first band that committed?
Slipknot — we were trying to find a headline band. I was trying to get Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Metallica. I had a guy who was working with us and he mentioned Slipknot — said they’re hot, they just went platinum, and they’re a little bit dangerous. When we saw that Slipknot was really the band we wanted, we went to their agency and they had already committed to playing Ozzfest. So we worked on them and doubled the offer and they left Ozzfest and really pissed Sharon Osbourne off.
You think you made a powerful enemy that day?
Oh yeah, oh my lord. It was a double edged sword. Clear Channel — that was Live Nation back then — at the time owned all the amphitheaters. She had the pull (with Clear Channel) and got us out of those locations, so we were left playing rodeos, parking lots and horse tracks. The original tour was supposed to be like 38 days but it got cut down to 18 shows for lack of locations. She had got a big headliner — a hot band — and then we stole them away. She had every reason to be angry — I would have done the same thing in her place. When she found out that half of our dates were Clear Channel venues, she was like, “no way.”
So how about the tour itself — once you got it going?
It was like “Spinal Tap” meets “Carrie.” Every show was just insane. In Kansas, the stage got lit on fire, and in Wisconsin, the leader of Slipknot got maced a few hours before the show by the head of security at the venue. This is the craziness of the tour — it turned out that the year before Slipknot had performed there with Ozzfest and didn’t like how they’d been treated so it was off to a bad start. That show, Wisconsin, had the worst vibe ever.
Were you worried at all then?
That show, yeah I was scared — but I was scared the whole tour, cause I just had a nightmare that someone was going to die at one of our shows. The problem was we were playing alternative venues — not amphitheaters. Playing at amphitheaters was like going to a five-star hotel after you’ve been camping. Mostly, we were playing at parks where you had to set everything up from scratch. That’s the part that really wore us down — setting up the stage at a Texas rodeo in August — it was 110 degrees. It wasn’t meant to support a music show and people don’t like to go to alternative venues because they’re not known.
Though we didn’t have any problems with our fans. They knew what they were doing. The EMTs told me that the metal fans usually don’t get hurt — it’s the shows like Blink 182 or Green Day that attract younger kids and they can get hurt.
Had you wanted to do a second year?
Yes! But basically, everyone screwed us the second year — Slipknot’s manager and Sharon Osbourne. We were going to do Slipknot and Marilyn Manson but Ozzfest just doubled every offer. We were in the position where we’d have to pay three to four times what the show was worth and still play in rodeos. Plus, Clear Channel owned thousands of radio stations and were able to keep us off the radio. That’s something that hasn’t changed one bit — the music industry is run by a very small group of people. They spent millions to stop us in our tracks.
There is some satisfaction in that though — that they spent so much money to do that.
Absolutely, I get a lot of satisfaction out of it. Getting it off the ground and being one of those people that made it real sort of changed me. That was in some ways more important to me than anything. Obviously I would have loved to have sustained it for 20 years like Warped Tour and made all that money but it just didn’t work out that way. That’s why we shifted gears and did the first tattoo convention in Massachusetts.
When did the law change in the Commonwealth?
Once I saw that we weren’t going to put out a second tour — which was just crushing — I saw that the law had just changed in Massachusetts. I decided to put on the first tattoo convention in the fall of 2001. We drew like eight or nine thousand people. We had artists from all over the world, and guys who did hand tattooing from Borneo — it was a really successful show.
What inspired you to write the book?
I sketched out an outline of what became this book in the year following the tour. I wrote a memoir in 2020 and my plan was to write a few of them about my life. The next one was going to be about the time 30 years ago, when I worked at an AIDS hospice during the AIDS epidemic in New York City — a heavy book. Then the pandemic hit, and I wanted to write a book but I didn’t want to write that one — so I settled on Tattoo the Earth.
What did you learn from this whole experience?
I was out of my mind for the majority of trying to get this off the ground. It was a crazy vision quest. A part of what I learned is to trust my own instincts. Now, I’m much more comfortable with who I am and what makes me up.
“Caravan of Pain” will go on sale on March 15.
More Upstate NY concerts announced: Fitz and the Tantrums, Slipknot, Amos Lee
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Love live music? More concerts have been announced in Upstate New York.
“HandClap” rockers Fitz & The Tantrums will perform at CMAC (Constellation Brands - Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center) in Canandaigua on June 14. St. Paul & The Broken Bones and special guest Devon Gilfillian will also perform at the 7 p.m. show.
Tickets for Fitz and the Tantrums will go on sale Friday, Jan. 21, at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. Prices may fluctuate based on demand.
Slipknot announced its 2022 Knotfest Roadshow tour dates Tuesday, including a May 24 stop at the MVP Arena (formerly the Times Union Center) in Albany with special guests Cypress Hill and Ho99o9.
Tickets for Knotfest go on sale Friday, Jan. 21 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. Presale tickets will be available starting today (Tuesday, Jan. 18) at noon.
And singer-songwriter Amos Lee will play The Egg in Albany on April 18. Jensen McRae will open the show at 8 p.m.
Tickets for Lee are on sale through Ticketmaster starting at $49, plus fees.
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ARCH ENEMY And BEHEMOTH Announce Co-Headlining ‘North American Siege’ 2022 Tour With NAPALM DEATH
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ARCH ENEMY and BEHEMOTH will embark on “The North American Siege 2022” tour in the spring. Set to kick off in April, the trek also features U.K. grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH and heavy gothic rockers UNTO OTHERS as special guests.
ARCH ENEMY’s Michael Amott (guitar) comments: “I honestly couldn’t be more excited about having ARCH ENEMY join forces with BEHEMOTH, NAPALM DEATH and UNTO OTHERS for a run of dates through North America in 2022! A killer package of quality mayhem right there — can’t fckn wait!”
BEHEMOTH frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski adds: “To say that we are dying to return on the road would be an understatement! In fact, we’ve never been more hungry to reunite with our legions… not only to bring young of the hottest extreme metal touring lineups in a long time but also to bring you NEW BEHEMOTH music! Rejoice!!!”
Tickets go on sale on Friday, January 21 at 10 a.m. local time.
“The North American Siege 2022” tour dates featuring ARCH ENEMY and BEHEMOTH plus special guests NAPALM DEATH, UNTO OTHERS:
April 16 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
April 18 - San Antonio, TX @ The Aztec Theatre
April 19 - Dallas, TX @ Amplified Live
April 21 - St Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
April 22 - Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
April 23 - Charlotte. NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
April 25 - Toronto, ON @ Rebel
April 26 - Montreal, QC @ Mtelus
April 28 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5
April 29 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia
April 30 - Worcester, MA @ Palladium
May 02 - Chicago, IL @ The Riviera Theatre
May 04 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
May 07 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
May 09 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
May 10 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
May 11 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
May 13 - Berkeley, CA @ The UC Theatre
May 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Hollywood Palladium
Last month, ARCH ENEMY released another new song, “House Of Mirrors”. Mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen, an accompanying music video for the track was directed by Grupa13.
“House Of Mirrors” marked the second new ARCH ENEMY track to be made available in four years, following the October 2021 arrival of “Deceiver, Deceiver”.
In the fall of 2018, Amott revealed that he had commenced the songwriting process for the follow-up to the “Will To Power” album. Released in 2017, that disc marked the second ARCH ENEMY LP since the departure of longtime singer Angela Gossow and addition of ex-THE AGONIST frontwoman Alissa White-Gluz. It was also the first ARCH ENEMY disc to feature former NEVERMORE guitarist Jeff Loomis, who joined the band in late 2014.
Jeff, who was the main songwriter in his previous group, NEVERMORE, was not involved in the writing for “Will To Power”.
BEHEMOTH released its latest full-length, “I Loved You At Your Darkest”, in 2018 to vast critical acclaim. “I Loved You At Your Darkest” marked a milestone in the history of the band, being not only their most successful album, but also an audiovisual masterpiece: from its detailed, blasphemous artwork to the highly vicious yet deeply emotional tracks.
BEHEMOTH’s latest EP, “A Forest”, came out in May 2020 via Metal Blade. The EP’s title track was a cover of THE CURE classic, and it featured a guest appearance by SHINING frontman Niklas Kvarforth. The “A Forest” EP also included a live version of the title track as well as two songs from the “I Loved You At Your Darkest” sessions.
BEHEMOTH supported SLIPKNOT on an arena tour of Europe in January and February 2020.