Uncommon footage of Slipknot onstage within the 12 months 2000 with out their masks has been uncovered and made obtainable on-line.
The 26-minute video exhibits the metallic giants run by means of just a few songs, unmasked, in soundcheck forward of their look on the Expo Corridor in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on July 7, 2000. It may be considered under.
At that time in 2000, Slipknot had been on the peak of their powers and using excessive on the success of their 1999 self-titled debut album, which went on to earn triple platinum certification and was as soon as voted the most effective debut album of the final 25 years by Metallic Hammer journal readers.
The band run by means of the songs Eyeless, Liberate and Me Inside throughout the soundcheck, which sees frontman Corey Taylor seemingly as animated as if it had been the present itself. In addition they tease a brief blast of Eric Clapton’s traditional Derek and the Dominos monitor Layla.
In addition they play a snippet of Pantera‘s A New Degree.
Taylor was joined within the lineup on the time by late bass participant Paul Grey, late drummer Joey Jordison, guitarists Mick Thomson, Craig Jones and Jim Root, percussionists Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan and Chris Fehn and DJ Sid Wilson.
Grey died in a resort room in Iowa in 2010 on the age of 28, with the information devastating the band and the metallic world. Jordison left Slipknot in 2013 and died in 2021 on the age of 46. His passing additionally got here as an enormous blow to metallic and to his former bandmates.
Slipknot have gone by means of plenty of lineup modifications through the years, most lately including former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande to the combination.
