Slipknot have announced the details and dates of their 2025 European tour, set to kick off next summer.
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The legendary heavy metal band will kick off the tour with a slot at the Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden on June 4. From there, Corey Taylor and co will make stops in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and Denmark. The band’s two final shows of the run will be comprised of their slots at Barcelona’s Rock Fest and Viveiro Ressurectionfest.
General ticket sales will commence on Friday (November 8) at 10am local time. Check out a full list of dates below and visit here to purchase tickets.
Slipknot 2025 European tour dates are:
JUNE 2025
4 – Sölvesborg, Sweden, Sweden Rock Festival
6 – Nuremberg, Germany, Rock Im Park
7 – Nürburg, Germany, Rock Am Ring
8 – Nancy, France, Heavy Weekend
10 – Hannover, Germany, Expo Plaza
13 – Nickelsdorf, Austria, Nova Rock Festival
14 – Interlaken, Switzerland, Green Field Festival
17 – Ferrara, Italy, Ferrara Summer Festival
21 – Copenhagen, Denmark, Copenhell
23 – Berlin, Germany, Waldbühne
25 – Lyon, France, LDLC Arena
26 – Barcelona, Spain, BCN Rock Fest
28 – Viveiro, Spain, Resurrection Fest
Last year, Taylor teased the release of Slipknot‘s lost album ‘Look Outside Your Window’.
It was recorded by the frontman, Sid Wilson, Jim Root and Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan at the same time as the group were working on 2008’s ‘All Hope Is Gone’. At one point, Taylor tried to blend the two records into one, but the “super experimental, vibey” tracks didn’t gel. To date, only one track from the sessions has been released – ‘All Hope Is Gone’ bonus track ‘Til We Die’.
Previously speaking with NME, Taylor gave a further update and said it’s partly his fault that the record hasn’t been released yet.
When asked about the record, he replied: “It’s actually funny that you bring that up. I was talking to Clown about it the other day and he goes, ‘One of the reasons it hasn’t come out is because you keep putting shit out which keeps conflicting with when I want to release it!’ I was like, ‘Fuck dude, why didn’t you tell me?’ He says, ‘Fuck, Taylor – you just got too much shit!’ It’s sounding like he’s got a release date that he can finally lock in and I have promised him that I won’t release anything that will ruin that. I think it’s going to be next year – finally, man!”
Taylor continued: “I just went back and listened to all that stuff and it’s so dope and so different. People going into this thinking it sounds like ‘Slipknot’ Slipknot are so wrong. It doesn’t sound like anything Slipknot have ever done, that’s why it’s its own thing. To me, it really is the long-lost album. The music is so beautiful, it probably has some of my favourite melodies that I’ve done, and people are really going to dig it. Clown did a really good job.”
Back in June, Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan gave another update in regard to the lost album and shared in a Reddit AMA: “The only reason ‘Look Outside Your Window’ has not come into this reality is because it is a timeless album that allows it to be presented at anytime. Up until now things we’ve been doing has been taking priority. It has to come out, I promise it will come out soon.”
NME spoke to Clown last December, where he told us about the status of ‘Look Outside Your Window’: “It’s definitely arriving next year. You have my word. The art’s been done. It’s been mixed. It’s been mastered. It is definitely coming out in 2024 and it’s such a great album. Corey is my favourite singer ever, and you’ll never hear him sing in the same way as on this album, so it’s been worth holding it back. It’s such a different, timeless project.”
He recently opened up about the band’s follow-up to 2022’s ‘The End, So Far‘, and shared: “The good news is, like, we’ve reached a point where we’ve accomplished everything we wanted to try for ourselves. So we wanted to leave the book open to everything. And I think that we’ve really accomplished that. So now I think because of the lineup and where we’re at and what we’ve done, I have a really, really spiritual feeling about this next one.
“So, I feel like it’s gonna be — not that anyone has not liked or liked what we’ve done, I’m just saying I have a feeling this one is much needed for everybody. And I think it’s gonna be widely accepted. So I’m very excited. Especially with Eloy [Casagrande] being in the band and the other guys, there’s a lot being brought to the table, and that is very, very exciting.”
In other news, Slipknot fans recently reacted to the band’s new ‘S’ logo featured on their new merch drop, with many less than happy with the design.
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