Knotfest Australia is officially set to return in 2024.
Knotfest and Destroy All Lines have revealed the dates for the second edition of Knotfest Australia.
Dates for the 2024 edition were officially confirmed via a save-the-date video on Knotfest Australia's official channels this evening. The cryptic video promises a 'monumental return Down Under' for the festival which debuted to great fanfare last year with a stacked lineup including festival innovators Slipknot and Aussie metal heroes Parkway Drive.
Melbourne will kick things off in 2024 with a show on Thursday 21 March at Flemington Racecourse before Knotfest Australia rolls on to Sydney's Centennial Park on Saturday 23 March and Brisbane's
While the lineup for 2024 is yet to be announced, the post does encourage fans to sign up for a mailing list to be the first to find out who will be making the trip to Melbourne, Sydney and the Showgrounds in Brisbane on Sunday 24 March.
Knotfest made its triumphant Australian debut this year, holding sold-out festivals in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Attendees and critics showered the events with praise, with the organisation, format and quality of the Slipknot-curated festival proving a big hit with Aussie metalheads.
Featuring brilliant sets from a stacked lineup including Slipknot, Parkway Drive, Megadeth, Trivium, Northlane, Amon Amarth, In Flames, Knocked Loose, Spiritbox, Story Of The Year, Alpha Wolf, Void Of Vision, Bad Omens and Malevolence, Knotfest Australia reportedly made good on its promise of a clash-free nirvana for metal festival starved Aussies.
One Slipknot fan did get a little too excited during Slipknot's first Aussie set in seven years though, infamously bringing an iconic set to a temporary halt, when they scaled a speaker tower, forcing organisers to stop the set until they agreed to climb back down, which they did readily and were immediately surrounded by security guards.
The incident prompted Slipknot frontman to pronounce "I can't take you crazy motherfuckers anywhere man, Jesus Christ! Got you climbing on shit, jumping off shit, rolling on shit — what the fuck?! That's fine, I can't stay mad at you. This is by far one of my favourite fucking countries in the entire fucking world. I mean that. You guys helped put us where we are and we have never forgotten that, god damn it, so thank you so fucking much."
You can watch the whole sequence go down in the YouTube footage below.
The three-date run of Knotfest Australia was Australian maggot's first opportunity to hear tracks from Slipknot's seventh full-length album The End, So Far and their 2019 record We Are Not Your Kind, with The Dying Song (Time To Sing) from the former and All Out Life and Unsainted from the latter making their live debuts down under at Knotfest Melbourne. Produced collaboratively by Joe Baressi (Queens Of The Stone Age, Soundgarden, Avenged Sevenfold, Parkway Drive) and Slipknot, The End, So Far is the follow-up to Slipknot’s 2019 We Are Not Your Kind which marked the band’s third consecutive #1 on the ARIA album chart.
To celebrate the widely anticipated release we caught up with Slipknot bass player, Alessandro 'V-Man' Venturella for a discussion about all things The End, So Far, if you haven't already, head on over and give it a read.
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