Slipknot, one of the most thrilling and visceral musical collectives on the planet, are excited to announce the 2022 iteration of their infamous Knotfest Roadshow tour. The tour will take place over two legs, both headlined by Slipknot. The first leg will feature special guests In This Moment and Jinjer. The second leg will feature special guests Cypress Hill and Ho99o9.
The first leg of the 38-date tour, produced by Live Nation, kicks off in Fargo, N.D. on Wednesday, March 16 and hits a further 17 cities before wrapping up in Vancouver on Sunday, April 17. The second leg kicks off on Wednesday, May 18 in University Park, Penn. and hits a further 17 cites before culminating on Sunday, June 18, in Chula Vista, Calif. and which features a stop in Ottawa at Canadian Tire Centre on Sunday, May 29.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting ticketmaster.ca or canadiantirecentre.com and will be available to the general public on Friday, Jan. 21, at 10 a.m.
Speaking on the new tour announcement, Slipknot’s clown shares: “It feels so good to get back out on the road with our Culture. Get ready for a brand-new experience. See you soon.”
Frontman Corey Taylor adds: “Even with everything going on in the world right now, we’re still extremely excited to come back out in the states, with two different, exciting packages. Whether it’s In This Moment and Jinjer, or Cypress and Ho99o9, we pride ourselves in bringing our fans the epicenter of our music and art. Come celebrate with us and try to stay as safe as we will be.”
2021 marked a banner year for Slipknot. Making a triumphant return to the road, their Knotfest Roadshow 2021 tour sold out amphitheaters across the country, bookended with the record-breaking Knotfest Iowa and the biggest headline show of their career, Knotfest Los Angeles at Banc of California Stadium where they debut their first new music in two years – the furious The Chapeltown Rag taken from the highly anticipated new Slipknot album, expected to release this year. In addition, they topped the bills of multiple, internationally renowned festivals including Riot Fest, Rocklahoma, Inkcarceration, Welcome To Rockville and more.
The tour will be part of Live Nation’s Live Stubs initiative which provides digital collectible NFT ticket stubs to ticket holders, which are free with ticket purchase (These are collector items and will not replace the digital tickets needed to physically enter the show). Fans can view, share, gift, trade, and resell their live stubs on livenation.com.
SLIPKNOT – KNOTFEST ROADSHOW CANADIAN DATES
*All dates, cities and venues below subject to change
April 11 – Winnipeg, Canada Life Centre
April 12 – Regina, Brandt Centre
April 14 – Saskatoon, SaskTel Centre
April 15 – Edmonton, Rogers Place
April 17 – Vancouver – Rogers Arena
May 26 – Montreal, Bell Centre
May 28 – Quebec City, Que., Videotron Centre
May 29 – Ottawa, Canadian Tire Centre
May 30 – Toronto, Budweiser Stage
About Slipknot
Slipknot sit alongside musical institutions like Metallica and Iron Maiden, as one of a select few bands whose legacy is secured within heavy music’s elite. The band emerged at the end of the 20th Century from the American mid-western town of Des Moines, Iowa and quickly established themselves as the most enigmatic, provocative and aggressive music collective of the modern era. 1999’s eponymous debut is widely viewed as a modern-day classic and was honoured by Metal Hammer magazine as the ‘Best Debut of the Last 25 Years.’ The release racked up double RIAA platinum certification in the U.S., with many of Slipknot’s subsequent releases achieving platinum status both in the U.S. and around the globe. To date, the band have been nominated for 10 Grammy Awards (winning in 2006 for Before I Forget), as well as scoring 12 platinum and 41 gold album certifications around the world and over 3.2 billion YouTube views and counting. Slipknot’s fanbase is as unwavering as it is ubiquitous – the band’s most recent studio album, 2019’s We Are Not Your Kind debuted at No. 1 in the Official Album Charts of 12 countries around the world, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and Mexico and in the Top 5 of an additional 12 countries including Germany, France and Sweden.
About Knotfest
Knotfest is Slipknot’s own self-curated, destination festival brand, currently held in four international locations; the U.S., Japan, Mexico and Colombia, with the inaugural Brazilian event set to happen in December 2021. Plans for the first U.K. event are still underway, having been postponed in 2019 by COVID-19 restrictions. Designed as an immersive, unforgettable, ‘dark carnival experience’, the event invites you into Slipknot’s apocalyptic underworld where stunning visuals, fire breathers and nightmarish creatures on stilts set the stage for an intoxicating and memorable weekend of live music.
About Cypress Hill
Three decades ago, B-Real, Sen Dog, and DJ Muggs sparked a trip that left popular culture stoned, stunned and staggering in anticipation for more. Naming themselves after a local street in Los Angeles, Cypress Hill burst on the scene in 1991 with the release of their self-titled debut album. The singles How I Could Just Kill a Man and The Phuncky Feel One became underground hits, and the group’s public pro-marijuana stance earned them many fans among the alternative rock community. Cypress Hill followed their debut with Black Sunday in the summer of 1993, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200, garnered three Grammy Award nominations, and went triple platinum in the U.S. As a result, Cypress Hill became the first rap group to have two albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 charts at the same time and are the first Latino-American hip-hop group to achieve platinum and multi-platinum success. Since the release of Black Sunday, Cypress Hill have put out seven more albums including 2018’s critically acclaimed, Elephants on Acid. Cypress Hill made history once again in 2019 when the group was honoured with their very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2021, Cypress Hill released Champion Sound. Produced by Black Milk, the single appears on the soundtrack of R.B.I Baseball 21 and is also the featured song for the band’s partnership with Montejo Cerveza. 2021 also saw Cypress Hill celebrate the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut this year with a SONY reissue on vinyl, 7-inch box set, a reissue across all DSP’s that includes eight unreleased tracks, as well as a graphic novel and their very own STANCE sock.
Cypress Hill continue to be busier than ever in 2022. The band will release a new album this spring and have already dropped three singles, Champion Sound, Open Ya Mind and Bye Bye. Their Hits From The Bong documentary, which is part of Mass Appeal’s Hip Hop 50 franchise in partnership with Showtime, will also be released this year.
About Ho99o9
Ho99o9 [HORROR] is a volatile conflagration of digital hardcore punk, gritty trap-infused hip hop, then cross-contaminated with explosive elements of industrial, electronic, metal and noise. The experimental avant-garde project originated in New Jersey by Yeti Bones & theOGM and is currently joined by drummer Billy Rymer of The Dillinger Escape Plan. Ho99o9 has built a cult-like following over the last decade, perpetually blazing around the globe laying waste with their legendary, visceral, live performances. Ho99o9’s completely unique and uncompromising style has created its own lane for the future of heavy, alternative music.
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