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Hardcore Favorites Snapcase Talk Reunion Shows, New Songs, Violent Mosh Pits

Formed in 1991, Buffalo's Snapcase not only helped usher in a new wave of hardcore that pushed the limits of the genre, but they also rode that wave towards crossover success, becoming a nationally recognized touring act along the way. Though the band's approach is very much rooted in hardcore, the quintet wasn't afraid to experiment sonically, incorporating everything from harmonics to heavy feedback in order to punctuate its start-stop rhythms. Records like Steps and Progression Through Unlearning will be remembered as some of the best in the genre, and in large part responsible for hardcore's crawl into the mainstream.

Though the group called it quits in 2005, Snapcase have sporadically played gigs across the country, last hitting New York City in 2011 as part of an anniversary event for Sick of It All at Webster Hall. Now, the Buffalo team is set to ignite Brooklyn with a pair of sold-out gigs at Brooklyn Bazaar, on May 11th, and Saint Vitus, on May 12th. With the shows fast approaching, Revolver spoke with vocalist Daryl Taberski about what he's been up to, the current status of the band and what the deal was with that new Snapcase track that recently surfaced.

SO SNAPCASE ARE DOING THESE SHOWS IN BROOKLYN — WHAT CAN PEOPLE EXPECT TO SEE? I KNOW THAT YOU RECENTLY PLAYED A NEW SONG IN BUFFALO. ARE THERE OTHER NEW SONGS BUBBLING UP? DARYL TABERSKI We've been writing some new material here and there. We did finish the song that we played at the show in Buffalo called "Spike Up Your Tone," kind of a positive song. We've been playing shows on and off, a couple of shows a year. Last year we played a festival in Spain, which was pretty fun with Anthrax and Suicidal Tendencies, among a lot of other bands. We also played the Fest in Gainesville with Hot Water Music, which was a really good time. We've been getting out there and playing some shows and it's been a lot of fun.

SO AS FAR AS WRITING, DO YOU INTEND TO WRITE MORE AND RELEASE SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE? We are interested in writing more material and we have parts for a lot of different songs, it's just a matter of coming together and completing songs. We haven't really discussed, "Oh, are we going to do an EP? Are we going to do a 7-inch or are we gonna do an album?" Right now we need to just keep getting together and working on material and also having fun.

When we were a full-time active band, it became more like a job: "OK, this is what we need to do and sustain." Sometimes you can lose a little bit of the fun doing that, and now it's a lot of fun. We all have full-time jobs outside of music and we all need the outlet to kind of rock and have a good time.

WHEN DID YOU WRITE THE NEW SONG? WAS IT BASED ON PARTS THAT EXISTED, OR HOW MUCH OF IT WAS FRESH? So we do have a lot of parts that have been laying around. Some of them for a long time and some of them not as long. This song came together on its own and it's fresh. We said we wanted to write a song that was a little bit more, like, old-school Snapcase, a little bit more straightforward hardcore type of song and that's what it is. It's definitely a fun song to play live. We played it in Buffalo and that's the first time we played it outside of the rehearsal space. And that's the only time so far. So looking forward to playing it again.

WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FULL-TIME WORK? I got a master's in social work and spent 12 years working as a social worker at an inpatient psychiatric hospital, so lots and lots of interesting stories about working and helping a lot of great people. It's something that I take very seriously — helping people with mental health concerns and all kinds of life issues. It's always been sort of a subject in Snapcase lyrics, as well.

John [ Salemi ], our one guitar player, he's got a professional race car business. So he builds race car chassis, he tunes drag racers and also his wife drives drag racing cars and they do that internationally. So they're a pretty high professional level at that. Tim [ Redmond ], our drummer, he's a schoolteacher. He's got a PhD. Frank [ Vicario, guitar ] and Dustin [ Perry, bass ] are both computer guys. They're pretty active in the computer world and that's what their job is.

REGARDING SNAPCASE LYRICS, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF SONGS THAT ALLUDE TO DRUGS AND MENTAL HEALTH. THE ONE THAT COMES INTO MY HEAD IMMEDIATELY IS "ZOMBIE PRESCRIPTION," WHICH TO ME IS ALMOST A BORDERLINE SCIENTOLOGY IDEA ... I don't know enough about scientology, so that was not my intent. But a lot of Snapcase songs can be interpreted in different ways and that's something I'm perfectly fine with. My attraction to the hardcore scene was that the lyrics always had strong meanings and, in some bands, it's kind of easier to decipher what those meanings are. Other bands, it's not as obvious and I would say Snapcase is somewhere in the middle. But "Spike up Your Tone" is our new song and it's kind of something just looking forward to the social climate these days and something to be more self-motivating. And sometimes all you've got is yourself. It's a self-motivation type of song.

Maybe it's something I felt like I needed in my adult life, post-touring. I hit a point where I realized like, "Wow, I really miss that creative outlet. I need music." I kind of missed the aggressive part of hardcore and getting out there and screaming my head off and throwing my body around. I missed a lot of these things. So I needed to make some changes in my own life. There was a number of other personal things I wanted to work on, things that I focused on over the past year or two and it felt great. And so that's where the lyrics for that came from.

As far as the musical thing, I also have another project band, which is kind of interesting. So my first cousin, he and I have always been in touch. He was in the band Windhand.

WHO'S YOUR COUSIN? Asechiah Bogdan. So Asechiah is not in Windhand now, but started writing new material and asked me if I'd like to do a project with him. We've been working on that and it's kind of been another big focus of mine probably over the past six months or so.

FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I CAN'T ENVISION WHAT THE SUM OF THOSE TWO PARTS LOOK LIKE. HOW ARE YOU APPROACHING IT? IS HE PLAYING GUITAR? Yeah, he's playing guitar, as he did in Windhand. He did write, he came up with all the songs, initially. I wouldn't say it's a big departure from Windhand, and I'm not doing Snapcase, so it's kind of fun for both of us to come together. We've recorded five songs at this point and they're getting mixed and I think that people will be hearing something fairly soon. So there's no record label. There's none of that right now. We're just sort of taking it one step at a time. The focus initially was the music and he and I doing something that was good for both of us. So it'll be interesting.

I'M INTERESTED TO HEAR THAT. WHO ELSE IS ON THIS RELEASE? A guy that was a mutual [ friend ], very close to Asechiah, but also someone that I had toured with in the past is Erik Larson, who played drums. Erik was in Alabama Thunderpussy and before that Avail. So he's the drummer. And Dustin from Snapcase is also a part of this project.

DO YOU THINK YOU WILL DO DATES WITH THIS PROJECT? We're not there yet, but it depends. We're not forcing anything with that. We'll see what comes, where the interests are and what feels right for us and how it all comes together.

HAVE YOU GUYS EVER PLAYED TOGETHER OR IS THIS MORE OF AN EMAIL THING THUS FAR? We have played together in a studio in Virginia.

AS FAR AS SNAPCASE DOING DATES, ANY PLANS TO DO ANY TOURING? It would be difficult for us all to tour because of our full-time jobs and family and things of that nature. I feel like playing these two shows in Brooklyn ... I'm excited because I miss playing shows that are more of a hardcore feel where there's not a barricade, they're not big tall stages. I've always liked those kinds of chaotic, more punk-type shows where people are falling on top of the stage and the band is falling into the crowd and that kind of thing. That's what I love, that's what I'm looking forward to. Hopefully, we can get that kind of energy.

ONE THING I'VE NOTICED IN MY LIFETIME IS THE SHIFT TOWARD VIOLENCE AT HARDCORE SHOWS — THE TERM "CROWD-KILLING" DIDN'T EXIST. HOW MUCH OF THAT DID YOU ENCOUNTER AS A BAND, AND WOULD YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT AS A FACTOR IN YOUR BAND'S SPLIT? No, I don't think that it had much to do with Snapcase going down or anything like that. I think for us it was more personal and personal motivation and where your focus is. But you bring up a good point because for me hardcore is all about the live elements. I didn't get into hardcore as a kid to sit in my bedroom and listen to records — and certainly that becomes part of it — but going to the show and feeling like you're singing along and one with the band and also one with the crowd, you know, that's everything. That was amazing. And something that you don't see in a lot of other scenes and for that to be missing is problematic. There was a sense of community and a sense of unity. The shows that we've played over the past couple years, I have felt that and I have seen that. That's been good. There are some scenes where the mosh pit, so to speak, is more of a individual thing and individual dancing. And I don't really get that, to be quite honest. I don't understand the big hole in front of the stage. I liked everyone packed up and singing along. We'll see what happens in these shows in New York .

SNAPCASE PICKED OUT SOME OF THE OPENERS ON THE BILL. WHAT DO THESE BANDS MEAN TO YOU, PERSONALLY? Well, Burn is legendary. I'm really excited about sharing the stage with all four of these bands. Burn is a band that, I can still remember when the first 7-inch came out, and I think we all were listening to it and checking it out at a Snapcase practice. Kinda just getting motivated and inspired by that. Then even later on when Chaka [ Malik ] was doing Orange 9mm, that was something that Snapcase were all super into and that got a lot of heavy rotation in our tour van. Primitive Weapons, I haven't seen them yet and I'm excited to. I've listened to them online. Same thing with Gears, and same thing with some Sharptooth. I'm excited to see them play.

CAN WE EXPECT A LOT OF THE OLD FAVORITES TO BE BROKEN OUT IN BROOKLYN? Yeah. We haven't actually even put the set list together yet, but literally any day now. It's Mother's Day weekend by the way, so everyone, don't forget. I had to break the news to my wife and we have a three-year-old son. She's like, "Oh yeah, good idea, Mother's Day weekend ..." We played Buffalo on my son's first birthday and I'm the kind of person that's like, "Oh, sure, cool. It doesn't matter! Any time." Oops.

I'M SURE THE FIRST THING OUT OF HER MOUTH WAS, "WHY NOT FATHER'S DAY INSTEAD?" I'll play on Christmas, I don't care.

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Twenty Years Later: Snapcase's 'Progression Through Unlearning'

Today, we are continuing our Twenty Years Later series. Helmed by Staffer Michael Musilli, the series will look back at hardcore and harcore-ish records at their 20 year mark. Not only will the pieces include analysis of a record's importance, but Musilli also contacted a slew of hardcore musicians in order to get their perspective on landmark records. Today, Musilli takes an in-depth look at Snapcase 's Progression Through Unlearning . Check it out below.

Progression Through Unlearning: Snapcase’s Prescription for the Guilty

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The upstate New York area has, for many years, been crafting its own brand of hardcore music. Buffalo in particular was a hotbed, offering up Despair and Buried Alive, Every Time I Die, Zero Tolerance, and Snapcase among many others. And while all of the aforementioned bands made their marks on the national scene, it was Snapcase whose impact was most felt. From Lookinglasself to Steps, we were offered a harmonically heavy and insightful hardcore band with socially conscious lyrics. With Progression Through Unlearning , Snapcase offered up an LP that bent the genre and opened audiences to an entirely new sound.

Progression Through Unlearning was the band’s third release on Victory Records and was released during the hey-day of Victory promotion and dominance. While Snapcase and the record itself certainly benefited from Victory’s then-desire to earnestly develop their roster, they also had a sound that was ready to break barriers. What they had planted on their previous releases, was now blossoming into a full-bodied sonic progression trademarked by their use of harmonic leads laid over grooving hardcore-ish rhythms. What they reined in on songs like “Drain Me” and “Windows” became their signature throughout Progression… Maybe even more remarkable was that Snapcase had switched primary song writers between the release of Steps and Progression… With the departure of Scott Dressler, Frank Vicario took over as the band’s primary song writer. That’s headache enough for any band, but Snapcase had just hit their sonic stride with Steps.

And yet, everything came together for Frank and company on Progression… From the opening drum hits on “Caboose” it was clear that Snapcase hadn’t missed a step. In fact, they had also managed to further push their sound. Floating throughout that song were all of the pieces that Snapcase had assembled in their previous six or so years as a band. Their mix of driving rhythms, the staccato delivery of Taberski’s vocals, the innovative leads, and the stunningly tight-popping drum beats had coalesced into an aggressive and forceful machine.

That machine strode the line between more traditional hardcore heavyweights like Sick of It All and more melodious underground rockers like Shift. This straddling of sorts is a huge part of Progression’s… importance too. Ryan Young, frontman for Off With Their Heads, recalls, “I remember throwing the CD in the player and being immediately changed by it. It not only didn't sound like a punk band, but it didn't sound like any other hardcore band I had heard either.” Snapcase was able to maintain that definitively hardcore angst while managing to appeal to a diverse fan base. So it was that the band would play the main stage at Warped Tour and open for Deftones and Quicksand, while also touring with Buried Alive and Kid Dynamite in the years around Progression Through Unlearning ’s release.

For Jeremy Smith, guitarist for Buffalo’s No Reason and Dead Hearts, “Snapcase were accessible and brought younger kids, interested in digging deeper into the Buffalo hardcore scene, around to other shows to see other bands. They brought an energy that young people wanted to be a part of and kids really plugged in to that and started coming out.” That energy was palpable in so many ways. For those who saw Snapcase live, it was felt through their uber-kinetic sets. But that energy was also captured in the record’s lyrical content.

Taberski challenged the listener on every song. Be it “Guilty By Ignorance” and its scathing evaluation of consumer culture or “Killing Yourself to Live” and its reflection on the drudgery of workaday life, the lyrics offered up insightful commentaries. And then there was the power of the record’s fifth track, “Zombie Prescription.” The song’s haunting and pioneering guitar leads aside, the energy that Daryl captured vocally on the song is unmatched. He wrote and delivered lyrics that were at once antagonistic and violent, and wholly introspective and thoughtful. Often times a band can offer one or the other, almost never can a band offer all. Yet here it all was on a single record, and threaded through every song.

But what might be the most interesting aspect of the record is its originality, both then and now. For the many bands who’ve cited Progression Through Unlearning as a watershed release – everyone from Refused to Deftones – none has quite managed to capture that sound. Boy Sets Fire guitarist, Chad Istvan, offers, “I literally remember where I was the first time I heard Progression…From the first drum hits, I was blown away by how heavy, energetic and original they sounded. This was the new benchmark and everyone else was left trying to catch up.” And this uniqueness makes Snapcase a compelling lesson in ingenuity. The sound and energy harnessed on Progression… remains locked in there. As Jukai guitarist Kyle Beshaw notes, “The term ‘hardcore’ in the mid to late nineties was a term that, in my opinion, was being stretched and punctured through with bands experimenting in other influences. Snapcase…were right in the thick of it and it’s crazy evident on Progression Through Unlearning .” Frank, Daryl, and the band were testing themselves. They were pushing out against the often restrictive bubble of hardcore sound. That’s something the band had done since Lookinglasself. And Progression Through Unlearning may just have been the culmination of that experimentation.

Progression Through Unlearning also thrust Snapcase into venues with much wider audiences. The record offered them an opportunity to continue to experiment not only with sound but also with their identity as band. One could see them opening for Bad Religion. Or one could see them headlining a tour themselves, bringing along friends like Boy Sets Fire and then-new acts like Saves the Day. No Reason’s Smith remembers, “I’m not even talking about how their ‘style’ of hardcore changed what kids were playing locally or nationwide; I’m talking about what THEY DID for Buffalo, just by being the kind of band they were… although Snapcase were a band playing huge venues and enormous tours, they still liked to ‘give back’ to Buffalo.” Similar sentiments are echoed by Boy Sets Fire’s Istvan, “[Snapcase] were really good to us and I credit a lot of how well we did to them.” For all the success they achieved with Progression…, they still kept their musical community close. While one could say that’s a basic tenet of the underground, it’s also easier said than done.

But Snapcase didn’t say it. They did it. With the release of Progression…, they changed the sound of hardcore and heavy music. That change may seem more subtle at times, but it’s there. Snapcase and Progression Through Unlearning remain a reminder that a particular sound is only one component of any genre. And they remind us that experimenting and testing our boundaries is often a very productive and creative exercise. Off With Their Heads’ Young recalls, “because of that specific record, I wound up going to see [Snapcase] as a 16 year old kid by myself. Watching the energy from that kind of show pretty much planted the seed for what I would do with my life.” Snapcase innovated and inspired. And Progression Through Unlearning is pinnacle evidence of those achievements.

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Innovators. That is perhaps, the most accurate way to describe Snapcase. When rock trends change like the kitchen trash, this hard working band from Buffalo, NY simply acknowledges and moves on. I sat down with singer Daryl Taberski in his backyard on a rare sunny afternoon at a time when the band was just starting to put together the material that would become End Transmission.

Are you the biggest band on Victory? I don’t know, maybe worldwide. I think in the U.S., Hatebreed sells a little bit more than we do. If you combined all of our albums, then no. But their one record has sold more in the U.S. than any one of our records.

You guys have had offers, right? Yeah, we’ve met with labels. When it was time to renegotiate our last deal, we decided that staying with Victory was the best thing for us. We’re not unhappy with the decision because they’ve worked really hard on our albums. They did an amazing job.

“We’ve toured with punk bands, ska bands, metal bands, nu-metal bands and we’ve had fun and done well with all those different categories and scenes. I think we bridge together punk and metal and hardcore all together.”

When do you see Snapcase fitting in the musical spectrum? You’re on Victory with all the hardcore, you just toured with Papa Roach, you were offered the opening slot on the current Soul Brains tour . . . That’s the thing, we’re always careful. We don’t want to be too tightly categorized. We felt that was one of the negative things about staying with Victory. There’s a stigma with the label that you’re a certain sound or a certain type of band. I think that comes with a lot of independent labels, people expect a certain sound. We don’t want to be coined a ‘Victory band’ or a ‘hardcore band’, even the hardcore scene is where our roots are. Without that scene, we would be nothing. We owe everything to that scene, but at the same time we don’t want to be labeled. We’ve toured with punk bands, ska bands, metal bands, nu-metal bands and we’ve had fun and done well with all those different categories and scenes. I think we bridge together punk and metal and hardcore all together. It’s important for us to be able to go tour Europe with NOFX and have a good time like we did last year and also be able to tour with a band like the Deftones and have a great time. I don’t think there’s a lot of bands that can do that. We don’t want to fit in. We want to just be Snapcase.

You’re not pursuing an image? No, we’re normal dudes. We’re not thugs, we’re not crazy, weird dudes. The music and the message and the lyrics speak for themselves. Snapcase has been a really lucky band. I mean, we were never really one of those crazy ambitious bands that was like ‘Okay, we’re gonna get big, we’re gonna go on tour, we gotta do this and that.’ We’ve always been a band that’s just gone at our own speed, which is why we only have three albums out in ten years. We never had high expectations and I think that’s why we have had some success. A lot of it has to do with being from Buffalo. We tend to work hard and expect little gain from it. Not that people don’t work hard in other places, but Buffalo is one of those small town/big town kind of places. It’s not an easy town to come out of and grow and be successful. Bands that are recognized out of Buffalo are few and far between. Ani DiFranco is an amazing story. And in the 80’s in Buffalo, you would go see the Goo Goo Dolls and you would go see Cannibal Corpse. And now they’re both such huge international bands. We’ve opened for both of those bands, so we sort of fit in between them somewhere, I think that’s kind of cool.

It seems that there’s two different camps when it comes to bands, one that has specific ambitions and the other that is in it just make good music. And it’s cool to see bands that are in it for the music actually make it. Definitely. I think it gets harder and more challenging as you’re doing well, to do it for the music. We were recently offered some shows and we didn’t want to go out and play. But the offers were huge. But we came together at practice and asked ourselves why we were considering the offer and our initial response was that we wanted to do the shows because the money was good, not because we wanted to go out and play. So we ended up turning them down and deciding to stay home and continue to write because that’s what we wanted to focus on and that’s what we’re going to do. I’m really excited. We have our own studio, and we’ve been reinvesting all of our earnings back into the band to do something new. It keeps it fun and fresh and that’s what’s most important.

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Slipknot Announce Knotfest 2024 and 25th Anniversary Tour

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Slipknot have announced a 2024 North American tour that takes place this summer. The nu metal band is also returning to its hometown music festival Knotfest Iowa . This year marks the 25th anniversary of Slipknot’s self-titled album, and their festival set is billed as “a unique set drawing heavily from their 1999 debut.” See Slipknot’s full list of tour dates below.

“Every time I’ve walked onstage, it’s never been about how many people have been there because my culture, the maggots, always show up,” founding member Shawn “Clown” Crahan said in a statement. “But as we’ve grown as a band, we have had fewer and fewer of those intimate, personal moments, trading them for massive ones. So we’re gonna make it more personal on the anniversary.… Just get ready to have your face kicked in, because we just do what we do, spread that maggot culture—that disease. And you’ve been infected.”

Dubbed the Here Comes the Pain Tour, Slipknot begin their run in Noblesville, Indiana, on August 6 and perform in Baltimore, New York, Toronto, Austin, and more cities. While the North American leg ends at Knotfest Iowa in Des Moines on September 21, Slipknot have plenty more dates scheduled in Europe on through to the end of 2024. Opening select shows in North America are Knocked Loose, Orbit Culture, and Vended.

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05-12 Daytona Beach, FL - Welcome to Rockville 05-19 Columbus, OH - Sonic Temple Festival 08-06 Noblesville, IN - Ruoff Music Center *~ 08-07 Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake *~ 08-09 Baltimore, MD - CFG Bank Arena *~ 08-10 Camden, NJ - Freedom Mortgage Pavilion *~ 08-12 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden *~ 08-14 Gilford, NH - BankNH Pavilion *~ 08-15 Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center *~ 08-17 Toronto, Ontario - Scotiabank Arena *~ 09-01 Pryor, OK - Rocklahoma 09-07 Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre *# 09-08 Ridgefield, WA - RV Inn Styles Resorts Amphitheater *# 09-09 Louisville, KY - Louder Than Life 09-11 Nampa, ID - Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater *# 09-13 Inglewood, CA - Intuit Dome *# 09-15 Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre *# 09-17 Austin, TX - Moody Center *# 09-18 Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavilion *# 09-21 Des Moines, IA - Knotfest Iowa at Waterworks Park *# 10-11 Sacramento, CA - Aftershock Festival 10-19 São Paulo, Brazil - Knotfest Brasil 11-08 Guadalajara, Mexico - Calle 2 11-09 Mexico City, Mexico - Parque Bicentenario 12-05 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome 12-06 Dortmund, Germany - Westfalenhallen 12-08 Stuttgart, Germany - Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle 12-09 Leipzig, Germany - Quarterback Immobilien Arena 12-11 Zurich, Switzerland - Hallenstadion 12-12 Paris, France - Accor Arena 12-14 Leeds, England - First Direct Arena 12-15 Glasgow, Scotland - OVO Hydro 12-17 Manchester, England - Co-op Live 12-18 Birmingham, England - Utilita Arena 12-20 London, England - The O2 12-21 London, England - The O2

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Slipknot Announce Here Comes the Pain Summer Tour

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Slipknot unveiled on Tuesday that they are heading on tour this summer for their Here Comes the Pain Tour to mark the 25th anniversary of their self-titled debut album. The news comes on the heels of the band’s announcement yesterday, April 29, that they will return to their hometown of Des Moines, Iowa to headline Knotfest 2024 .

The tour will see the group stop in North American cities such as Columbus, Baltimore, New York, Austin, Los Angeles, and Austin. They then head overseas for a slate of dates in Europe and the U.K. The group will bring Knocked Loose on the road for the entirety of the tour. Orbit Culture and Vended will join for select dates.

“Just get ready to have your face kicked in. Because we just do what we do, spread that maggot culture – that disease,” Crahan added. “And you’ve been infected.”

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Tickets go on sale for the general public on May 3 at 10 a.m. local time. Fans can expect the group to deliver many of their earliest hits, which helped the group break through to a wider audience.

“We loved what we did with the first record but we didn’t even know if there was gonna be anything after that,” guitarist Jim Root said. “We just wanted people to hear it. Selling out of records and shows, having successful tours — those are goals for any band. But the dream scenario in some ways, came true for us.”

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Aug 06: Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center * Aug 07: Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake * Aug 09: Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena * Aug 10: Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion * Aug 12: New York, NY – Madison Square Garden * Aug 14: Gilford, NH – BankNH Pavilion * Aug 15: Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center * Aug 17: Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena * Sep 07: Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre # Sep 08: Ridgefield, WA – RV Inn Styles Resorts Amphitheater # Sep 11: Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater # Sep 13: Inglewood, CA – Intuit Dome # Sep 15: Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre # Sep 17: Austin, TX – Moody Center # Sep 18: Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion # Sep 21: Des Moines, IA – Knotfest Iowa at Waterworks Park #

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Slipknot announces Here Comes the Pain concert tour, return of Knotfest: How to get tickets

Heavy metal band Slipknot is celebrating the 25th-anniversary of its debut album with a new tour.

The band announced its upcoming Here Comes the Pain Tour on social media Tuesday. The 18-city North American trek kicks off in Noblesville, Indiana, on Aug. 6 and will visit Baltimore, New York City, Toronto and Dallas, among other cities.

The tour will wrap in Slipknot's hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, with the return of the band's festival Knotfest on Sept. 21.

Knocked Loose, Orbit Culture and Vended will serve as opening acts on the tour.

Slipknot, known for its mask-clad members, chaotic shows and aggressive music style, released its self-titled debut album in 1999. The album went on to sell 2 million copies , and its lead single "Wait and Bleed" earned the nu-metal band a Grammy nomination for best metal performance.

How to get tickets to Slipknot's Here Comes the Pain Tour

A ticket presale for the Here Comes the Pain Tour began Tuesday at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT. For more information, visit the band's official website .

Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday at ticketmaster.com and livenation.com . VIP tickets will also be available for purchase at this time.

Slipknot Here Comes the Pain Tour dates

• Aug. 6, 2024 - Noblesville, IN - Ruoff Music Center
• Aug. 7 - Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake
• Aug. 9 - Baltimore, MD - CFG Bank Arena
• Aug. 10 - Camden, NJ - Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
• Aug. 12 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
• Aug. 14 - Gilford, NH - BankNH Pavilion
• Aug. 15 - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center
• Aug. 17 - Toronto, ON - Scotiabank Arena
• Sept. 1 - Pryor, OK –  Rocklahoma
• Sept. 7 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre
• Sept. 8 - Ridgefield, WA - RV Inn Styles Resorts Amphitheater
• Sept. 9 - Louisville, KY - Louder Than Life
• Sept. 11 - Nampa, ID - Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater
• Sept. 13 - Inglewood, CA - Intuit Dome
• Sept. 15 - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
• Sept. 17 - Austin, TX - Moody Center
• Sept. 18 - Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavilion
• Sept. 21 - Des Moines, lA - Knotfest lowa

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Who’s playing Knotfest?

The 2024 lineup for Knotfest includes the return of Slipknot, the festival’s headliner and founder. The band will play a set that draws from its 1999 debut album “Slipknot.”

The lineup also includes Till Lindemann from Rammstein, hardcore/metal forerunners Knocked Loose , metalcore influencers Hatebreed and Poison The Well , heavy metal icons GWAR , in addition to Vended , Dying Wish , Zulu, Twin Temple, Holy Wars, Swollen Teeth and Spine & Dose. Vended features two members who are sons of members of Slipknot (Griffin Taylor, son of Corey Taylor, and Simon Crahan, son of Shawn “Clown” Crahan).

Where is Knotfest being held?

Knotfest Iowa 2024 takes place on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Water Works Park, 2201 George Flagg Pkwy., Des Moines.

Knotfest Iowa brings a revamped Knotfest Museum to celebrate Slipknot’s 25-year career. A staple at Knotfests all over the world, it features a collection of artifacts from the band’s history.

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How do I buy tickets to Knotfest?

Tickets for Knotfest go on sale Tuesday from 10 a.m. to noon for premium sales of $99.50 on Knotfest.com , followed by Knotfest.com general subscriber presale tickets starting at noon. Tickets are on sale to the general public starting at $125 this Friday at 10 a.m. on Knotfest.com . 

Who is Slipknot?

Percussionist Shawn Crahan, former vocalist Anders Colsefni and bassist Paul Gray formed Slipknot in 1995. Vocalist Corey Taylor joined the band in 1997 as its new lead singer.

Crahan came up with the idea of wearing a mask when he brought a clown mask with him to rehearsals. Now he’s known as “The Clown.” By 1997, the band decided that everyone would wear a mask and a matching jumpsuit.

The band's seventh studio album, "The End, So Far," came out in September 2022.