SLIPKNOT Announces Summer 2019 European Tour

SLIPKNOT will embark a month-long tour of Europe next summer. The band will perform at a number of festivals across the continent, including Download, Rock Am Ring, Graspop Metal Meeting and Resurrection.

Tour dates:

Jun. 07-08 – Hyvinkää, Rockfest, Finland
Jun. 07-09 – Nuremburg, Rock Im Park, Germany
Jun. 07-09 – Nürburg, Rock Am Ring, Germany
Jun. 13-15 – Nickelsdorf, Novarock, Austria
Jun. 13-16 – Interlaken, Greenfield, Switzerland
Jun. 14-16 – Derby, Download Festival, UK
Jun. 17 – Leipzig, Arena, Germany
Jun. 18 – Hannover, TUI Arena, Germany
Jun. 19-22 – Copenhagen, Copenhell, Denmark
Jun. 21-23 – Dessel, Graspop, Belgium
Jun. 25-26 – Kraków, Mystic Festival, Poland
Jun. 27 – Bologna, Sonic Park, Italy
Jun. 28-30 – Madrid, Download Festival, Spain
Jul. 01 – Nîmes, Amphitheatre Nîmes, France
Jul. 03-06 – Lisbon, VOA, Portugal
Jul. 04-05 – Viveiro, Resurrection Festival, Spain

As previously reported, SLIPKNOT will perform at the Iowa State Fair Grandstand for the first time ever on August 10, 2019.

Tickets for the concert go on sale November 2 at 10 a.m. via IowaStateFair.org, costing $43, $53 or $60 before fees and fair admission. An opening act is yet to be announced.

The Iowa State Fair runs August 8-18, 2019.

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor recently told Spain’s Resurrection Fest TV that the band’s follow-up to 2014’s “.5: The Gray Chapter” album will likely arrive next summer. Saying that 2019 will be “a big year for SLIPKNOT,” Taylor added that the band’s plans for the coming months include the launch of “a big world tour.”

“.5: The Gray Chapter” was released following a six-year hiatus during which founding SLIPKNOT bassist Paul Gray died and drummer Joey Jordison was dismissed.

“.5: The Gray Chapter” sold around 132,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 1 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores in October 2014 via Roadrunner.

Gray died in 2010 from a drug overdose, while Jordison was let go in December 2013, just before SLIPKNOT began recording the last album.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net