Slipknot have announced that they will be bringing their special 25th anniversary tour to Australia next year.
However, the tour will come in the form of Slipknot’s Knotfest Australia offering for 2025, rather than a standalone tour. Dates for Knotfest Australia 2025 have yet to be announced, nor has a line-up or ticketing details.
The announcement comes ahead of Knotfest Australia taking place next week – March 21 in Melbourne, March 23 in Sydney and March 24 in Brisbane.
Headlining Knotfest Australia 2024 are Pantera and Disturbed, with marquee performances by Lamb Of God, Asking Alexandria, The Hu, Escape The Fate and others. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here.
Knotfest Australia 2025 will also mark Slipknot’s first shows Down Under with their new drummer – who has been teased, but not yet revealed. This past weekend, the band took to social media to tease their new drummer through an image of a broken drumstick snapped during band rehearsals.
It comes as the band are set to hit the road in April – it will mark their first shows in a decade without drummer Jay Weinberg, who was fired in November last year. Weinberg has since joined Suicidal Tendencies.
Knotfest Australia 2023 scored a four-star review, with Ellie Robinson writing for NME: “Clown told NME that Knotfest would debut in Australia this year so that Slipknot could “burn down [our] brainwashed philosophy” and indoctrinate us with their own. If any of those among us weren’t already devout members of the Church Of Slipknot (aka Maggots, sometimes Heretics), they surely walked away last night as fresh converts. Considering all three editions sold out, it seems inevitable that Knotfest will return Down Under in 2024 – we’ll start stretching now.”
