Slipknot had one thing actually cool in retailer for old-school followers on the Aftershock Pageant in Sacramento on Friday.
The topnotch metallic act — identified outdoors of its large fanbase primarily for carrying creepy masks — needed to have fun the twenty fifth anniversary of its debut album by taking listeners on a visit again to when that double-platinum-selling eponymous outing was first launched.
“Welcome back to 1999,” lead vocalist Corey Taylor knowledgeable the massive crowd assembled for the band’s headlining set on Day 2 of the pageant. “You will not hear one song written after 1999 tonight.”
After all, Taylor knew that presumably not everybody could be thrilled with this plan, provided that it might translate to lacking out on so many prime Slipknot cuts from later albums. But, he additionally knew that probably the most devoted “maggots” — the band’s nickname for its followers — will surely dig this flip of occasions.
“For the casual fan — sorry,” he stated. “For the maggots who’ve been there since Day 1, this is our way of saying thank you.”
Jim Root performs with Slipknot through the Aftershock Pageant in Sacramento on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (Chris Riley/Instances-Herald)
Staying true to their phrase, the mighty metallic males of Slipknot — Taylor, guitarists Jim Root and Mick Thomson, turntable specialist Sid Wilson, bassist-keyboardist Alessandro Venturella, percussionist Michael Pfaff and model spanking new drummer Eloy Casagrande – caught fully to the band’s first album through the present
Prepping the gang with a little bit of Gary Wright’s decidedly un-metal anthem “Dream Weaver” (in fact) after which the identical “742617000027” intro discovered on that debut album, Slipknot took the stage and instantly started erecting a towering a set from tunes from the unique platter.
In addition they sewed in just a few bonus numbers bonus numbers from numerous import/reissue editions, together with a merely scalding model of the underrated gem “Me Inside.”
“Are u ready for some deep (expletive) cuts, California?” Taylor requested to an viewers that was “all in” from the very begin.
Corey Taylor performs with Slipknot through the Aftershock Pageant in Sacramento on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (Chris Riley/Instances-Herald)
The Iowa outfit sounded as muscular as ever because it initially caught to the document’s precise monitor itemizing, thundering by way of “(sic),” “Eyeless” and “Wait and Bleed” — the final of which being the album’s greatest hit. But, it will definitely departed from the monitor itemizing and began mixing issues up in fascinating methods — resembling enjoying “No Life” and “Only One” to shut the primary set, with out together with the same old “Diluted” between the 2.
Slipknot completed up its triumphant return to 1999 with a blistering encore constructed from “S” numbers — “Spit It Out,” “Surfacing” and, lastly, “Scissors,” which is certainly the final “listed” monitor on the unique album.
Corey Taylor performs with Slipknot through the Aftershock Pageant in Sacramento on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (Chris Riley/Instances-Herald)
Slipknot setlist (based mostly on our notes and knowledge from Setlist.fm)
1. “742617000027”2. “(sic)”3. “Eyeless”4. “Wait and Bleed”5. “Get This”6. “Eeyore”7. “Tattered & Torn”8. “Me Inside”9. “Liberate”10. “Frail Limb Nursery”11. “Purity”12. “Prosthetics”13. “No Life”14. “Only One”Encore:15. “Mudslide”16. “Spit It Out”17. “Surfacing”18. “Scissors”
(Notice: A few of these songs had been performed on tape as interludes.)
