Knotfest is a music festival created in 2012 by American heavy metal band Slipknot and their longtime manager and CEO of 5B Artist Management, Cory Brennan. The event has been held both as a touring festival and a destination festival in several countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Australia, Colombia, France and Chile. Aside from Slipknot, Knotfest has featured a diverse alumni of past performers including Deftones, Marilyn Manson, Lamb of God, Bring Me the Horizon, Prong, Deadly Apples, In This Moment, Amen, Butcher Babies and Prayers.[1]
History
Creation
Knotfest was officially announced on June 4, 2012. Among the activities the festival offered as part of its "dark carnival experience" were circus big-top tents, pillars of fire, amusement park rides, burlesque performers, firebreathers, stilt walkers, drum circles made of junkyard cars and graffiti walls. The two shows also debuted a Slipknot museum.[2]
"It's all about having fun and going crazy, bringing it to the standard it used to be," Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan told Rolling Stone. "It's time for us to really engulf this idea known as Knotfest where we're in control, we make a day devoted to our mindset, our ideas, the people that we want to play with, the people that we think our fans want to be around... When everyone leaves their senses [will be] overloaded, and I'm talking about smells, sights, hearing, your body, everything is overloaded with stimulation, because that's what Slipknot does."[2]
On July 11, Slipknot announced that their closing performance at Knotfest would be broadcast via a pay-per-view streaming website.[7] Shawn "Clown" Crahan said, "It means everything for everyone to see the live spectacle we're creating in the flesh, but we understand some fans around the world can't be at the show. We've now made it possible for you to be there in spirit - so join us live on August 18."[7]
Fire from the Gods
Buried Under Texas
Doomsday Mourning
Born for War
A Tragedy at Hand
Grand Lord High Master
Piece in Terror
Short Fuse
Green as Emerald
Kaustik
Skyburial
This Place Is a Zoo
Chasing the Bullet
I, of Helix
Proletariat
Avoid the Void
Abhor
A Threat to the Enemy
Stands with Fists
Paranova
Everybody Panic!
As Oceans
Dead Animal Assembly Plant
Speaking with Ghost
Xero for Life
The Darkest Day
