Leeds is infested with maggots. In all places you look, the town centre is crawling with boiler fits, masks, face-paint, and numerous black T-shirts emblazoned with nine-pointed stars. As a singular entity they’re shifting with objective, writhing towards the First Direct Area to feast on the flesh that began all of it. The genesis of a motion. The start.
For tonight is a celebration of not only a file, however a tradition. Twenty-five years in the past, 9 masked maniacs from Des Moines, Iowa, unleashed an album that wasn’t simply the launchpad to turning into one of many greatest metallic bands of all time, however knowledgeable the next quarter-century of heavy music. It was harmful, it was wicked, and it was completely different. Brimming with piss and vinegar and a real hatred for humanity it related on a deeper, extra visceral stage than anything taking place on the time and continues to enrapture new generations of followers to at the present time.
“I feel we will all agree the self-titled Slipknot album is without doubt one of the most essential metallic data of all time,” says Bleed From Inside frontman Scott Kennedy by means of affirmation, standing atop his riser addressing the rising hordes within the cavernous 18,000-capacity area. Opening for Slipknot is rarely a simple activity, however the Scottish warriors are greater than as much as it, wielding sledgehammer heaviness amongst a blinding sci-fi-rave lightshow, the ground is already opening and rising in energy. Barrelling via a punishing Pathfinder to discovering actual groove in I Am Damnation, new single In Place Of A Halo already feels at residence within the set, including a brand new layer of brutality to BFW’s model of metalcore. However nothing goes to high The Finish Of All We Know stirring up the circle pits with a caustic mixture of adrenaline and anticipation for what’s to come back…