The concert marked the first performances of No Life and Scissors since 2000.
This is dedicated to every maggot who has stuck by us for 25 years.
Were gonna take you someplace fucking dark.
Corey Taylor of Slipknot performs during Sonic Temple Art and Music Festival on Sunday, May 19, 2024.Amy Harris/Invision/AP
Then in came the guitar riffs and the nuclear canister percussion.
For No Life, the band kicked things off with no introduction.
Everyone is trying to push the envelope, he said.
Slipknot is the envelope, and now its up to other people to push it.
He also recalled meeting a band that attempted to steal Slipknots mojo.
We can be copied, but we cannot be duplicated, he said.
I met a kid in New Orleans, and he told me all about his band.
They had nine members, OK. Then he tells me they wear masks, too all right.
Then he says that he wears a clown mask.
I kinda had to control myself.
I got this killer instinct for a minute, like, Clown … must … destroy other Clown.'