NewsJuly 2, 2017 4:04 PM ET17,831 views

Slipknot will not perform at Knotfest 2017

Slipknot will not perform at 2017 installment Knotfest, the festival they launched in 2012. This year's Knotfest events will take place in Mexico in October, in addition to a U.S. date that will once again be a pairing with Ozzfest. That date has yet to be announced. Here's a relevant excerpt of a new Billboard interview with Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor:
"We've got some cool stuff coming down the pike that will happen later," Taylor adds, which includes likely appearances at this year's Knotfest festivals -- one already announced for Oct. 28 in Toluca, Mexico, and with a U.S. date, again paired with Ozzy Osbourne's OzzFest, expected to be announced on July 10. Taylor adds it will be Stone Sour, and not Slipknot, that he's playing with on those dates. "Nothing's being written, nothing's being done. Everybody's just doing their thing, which is fine," Taylor says of Slipknot's status. But he's confident the group's absence this year will help Knotfest in the long run. "I think in a lot of ways your festival has to live past you, or it's not gonna live at all," Taylor explains. "If it has to live and breathe on your presence, then it's not a festival, and it's not for anybody else but you. And for us, it's always been more about the art and the music and everybody... That's why we put so much work into it to begin with, is to really make sure that it was stable and it was strong and the foundation was there."

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simon_belmonT 7/2/2017 1:14:31 PM

That's great, doug

anonymous 7/2/2017 2:08:21 PM

What?

anonymous 7/2/2017 2:09:16 PM

Slipknot fan

anonymous 7/2/2017 2:49:44 PM

no knot at knot fest..

anonymous 7/2/2017 4:03:30 PM

only posers stay for the closing band at any show

anonymous 7/2/2017 4:04:45 PM

unless its mushroomhead or static x pre 2006. i might of stayed for that and put work down

anonymous 7/2/2017 4:36:23 PM

Knotlessfest

anonymous 7/2/2017 4:37:35 PM

Replaceed with Five Finger Dildo Punch

anonymous 7/2/2017 5:45:19 PM

I did knot see this coming.

anonymous 7/2/2017 8:34:01 PM

Cash grab

anonymous 7/2/2017 9:03:10 PM

fly sevendust or 36 crazyfists out

anonymous 7/2/2017 10:54:30 PM

^That's a surprise? Scott Vogel has been cucking out fans since the Slug Fest days. Think of how many fans have opened their home for him to stay at on tour? Do the math. The guy is what is known as a Bull, and has bred thousands of females.

anonymous 7/3/2017 5:01:34 AM

Somewhere out there, a 30 year old man wearing those gothic strap pants just slammed his fist on his desk. When his dad asked "What the fck was that?" He replied "Nothing sir" and turned down his music in hopes of not getting his ass beat again.

anonymous 7/3/2017 5:45:12 AM

More like NOTfest .

anonymous 7/3/2017 5:57:25 AM

any of you know how hitler used to tie his boots? in little knot c's.

anonymous 7/3/2017 7:27:08 AM

Because Stone Sour is so much more active than Slipknot lol

anonymous 7/3/2017 9:32:41 AM

It's because the band as a whole was shook by the latest comments made by Nickleback. They are contemplating not using masks anymore as a "gimmick" so the absence is needed, like a buffer, for my penis.

anonymous 7/3/2017 10:56:58 AM

Cuckfest

anonymous 7/3/2017 1:29:19 PM

burning barrels of camel shit are stoked

anonymous 7/5/2017 1:14:47 PM

BREAKING NEWS: World's shittiest metal band not playing their own festival, ironically making the entire event up to 35% less insufferable.


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