Slipknot news

11-16-01	Slipknot Postpone Tour -RollingStone.com Slipknot have postponed their upcoming tour, which was scheduled to kick off on November 21st in Fargo, North Dakota, until next year.
11-08-01	Slipknot Confirms 21 U.S. Dates -Billboard Having just wrapped a co-headlining stint with System Of A Down on the Pledge of Allegiance tour, masked hard rock act Slipknot will return to the road in the U.S. for a 21-date tour that begins Nov. 20 in Green Bay, Wis. The group has also confirmed new dates in 2002 for a handful of U.K. shows that were postponed in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
11-08-01	Slipknot Take "Iowa" on the Road -RollingStone.com Slipknot have lined up twenty-four U.S. dates in support of their new album, Iowa .
10-20-01	Slipknot Postpones Overseas Dates, To Tour U.S. -Launch Citing "the international tensions, current conflict, and growing safety problems involving our country," Slipknot has decided to postpone its upcoming tours in England, Japan, and Australia that were set to commence in early November.
10-19-01	Slipknot Calls Off International Tour -Billboard Hard rock outfit Slipknot has postponed a planned tour of the U.K., Japan, and Australia "because of the international tensions, current conflict, and growing safety problems involving our country," according to a statement.
10-02-01	Slipknot & System Pledge Of Allegiance Tour Gets Star-Studded Support In Los Angeles -Launch Slipknot and System Of A Down 's Pledge Of Allegiance Tour played the Forum in Los Angeles on Saturday night (September 29) to a star-studded crowd.
09-13-01	Slipknot/System Of A Down Tour Dates Rescheduled -Launch Four of the five postponed dates of the Pledge Of Allegiance Tour, featuring co-headliners Slipknot and System Of A Down , have now been rescheduled for later in the tour.
09-07-01	Slipknot, System's Pledge Of Allegiance Tour Dates Announced -SonicNet Pledge of Allegiance tour organizers have announced the full itinerary for the inaugural metal festival featuring Slipknot and System of a Down.
09-04-01	Slipknot, Strokes Storm U.K. Album Chart -Billboard American rock continued its dramatic re-emergence at the top of the U.K. album chart Sunday when Slipknot's "Iowa" (Roadrunner) succeeded Staind's "Break the Cycle" (East West) at No.
08-31-01	Slipknot Happy With 'Iowa' -Launch Slipknot 's much-anticipated second album, Iowa , arrived in stores on Tuesday (August 28).
08-30-01	Slipknot Shoot For 'World Domination' With Iowa -SonicNet "Here we go again, motherf---er." So begins the much-anticipated new album from the world's favorite corn-fed shock rockers.
08-17-01	Slipknot, SOAD 'Pledge' Rock For Fall Tour -Billboard Slipknot and System of a Down's inaugural Pledge of Allegiance tour will kick off Sept. 14 in Rosemont, Ill., several weeks earlier than its previously announced start date of Oct. 1.
07-06-01	OffFest Featuring Slipknot, Papa Roach Hits Tennessee -Launch Slipknot , Papa Roach , Linkin Park , Disturbed , and Mudvayne arrive today (July 6) at the AmSouth Amphitheater in Antioch, Tennessee for the latest date of the OffFest, the day-off by-product of this year's OzzFest.
06-16-01	Slipknot Sully Supermarkets' Name At Big Day Off Opener -SonicNet Slipknot have run afoul in a Missouri ballpark, their onstage cussing allegedly despoiling the wholesome name of a Midwest supermarket chain.
05-23-01	Ozzfest Participants Take A 'Day Off' -Billboard Hard-touring Ozzfest participants Slipknot, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Disturbed, and Mudvayne have lined up a series of performances running concurrently with Ozzfest shows this summer.
05-23-01	Slipknot Gets Haven In 'Iowa' -Billboard Slipknot has put the finishing touches on its latest album, due July 17 from Roadrunner Records.
05-22-01	Slipknot Crawl Up Inside Wound -Spin The scary men that wear strange masks and call themselves Slipknot have a brand new album coming out this summer on Roadrunner Records, and it will be called Iowa .
05-15-01	Slipknot Return Home -RollingStone.com Slipknot 's follow up to their 1999 self-titled debut will be called Iowa , named for the home state of the nine member outfit.
05-04-01	Slipknot and System Of A Down Pledge Of Allegiance On Tour In October -Launch Slipknot and System Of A Down have announced the Pledge Of Allegiance tour, which is set to kick off October 1 in Las Vegas at the Thomas And Mack Center.
05-04-01	Slipknot, System To Take 'Pledge' To The People -Billboard Hard rock acts Slipknot and System of a Down will team up to co-headline the inaugural Pledge of Allegiance tour.
05-03-01	Slipknot, System to Tour -RollingStone.com Just a day after canceling a promotional tour and pushing back the release date of their second album, Slipknot have committed to a fall tour with System of a Down .
05-03-01	Slipknot, System: Pledging Some Mad Allegiance -Spin I pledge allegiance, too-to big scary hair braids, and gas masks, and other perplexing and scary facial adornments.
05-03-01	Slipknot Cancel Mini Tour -RollingStone.com Slipknot have canceled their five-date warm-up tour, which was slated to begin Friday, and have postponed the release of their yet-to-be-titled second album to July 17th.
05-02-01	Slipknot Delays Touring And Album Release -Launch Slipknot has canceled its brief tour that was to begin on Friday (May 4), and now the band has pushed back the release date for the still-untitled album to July 17.
3-30-01	Slipknot Sets Release Date For New Album -SonicNet Maggots of the world, let the countdown begin. July 24 will be ground zero for Slipknot's as-yet-untitled second album, according to a Roadrunner Records spokesperson.
3-23-01	Slipknot says "Free Wes Borland" -Spin "Free Wes Borland!" declares Slipknot singer Corey Taylor. "Let him out. Let him the fuck out. I'm sick of this shit, put him on parole." That's right.
3-15-01	Ozzfest Kicking Off In U.K. -Billboard Ozzfest will inaugurate its 2001 run with a single May 26 stop at the Milton Keynes Bowl, in Milton Keynes, north of London. Like the North American edition of the tour, Black Sabbath will headline, with support from Slipknot, Tool, and Papa Roach.
3-1-01	Powerman 5K Talks New LP, DVD -Wall of Sound Powerman 5000 released the DVD Backstage and Beyond the Infinite this week, but the hard rock act is already talking about its next release: an album the quintet is finishing now in the studio.
2-17-01	Slipknot Working On Album As They Ponder Grammys, Touring -SonicNet If the esteemed members of the Grammy voting committee knew that one of their nominees was "out to destroy the weak minds in this pitiful industry, with all its derivity ( sic ) and contrived bulls--- music," Slipknot's bid for Best Metal Performance just might be revoked.
2-13-01	Slipknot's Clown Not Attending Grammy Awards -Launch (2/13/01, 6 p.m. ET) -- While the other members of the band have not announced their plans, Slipknot percussionist Clown will not be attending the Grammy Awards next week, where the group has earned a nomination for best heavy metal performance.
2-12-01	Slipknot Cancels Pre-Grammy Party -Launch (2/12/01, 1 p.m.) -- Slipknot has canceled its pre-Grammy/Masquerade party in Hollywood, California, in order to concentrate on recording its next album.
2-5-01	Black Sabbath Reunite for Ozzfest -amuZnet Though they claimed to have disbanded, seminal macabre metal rockers Black Sabbath have re-banded to headline this year’s Ozzfest. It makes cosmic sense that these masters of the morbid helmed by Ozzy Osbourne have risen from the grave – as they performed their farewell dates in December 1999 in Birmingham, England – and it’s even more appropriate that they will be joined by newer members of the hard rock community Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Papa Roach, Disturbed and Linkin Park.
2-5-01	Sabbath Returns for Ozzfest 2001 -Wall of Sound Black Sabbath may have said goodbye at the end of 1999 — but that was in England, and Ozzfest is a North American tour. The pioneering metal quartet will reunite once again to lead this year's Ozzfest, the fifth edition of the summer hard rock tour.
1-30-01	Grammy-Nominated Slipknot Preps New LP -Wall of Sound Slipknot is not a band prone to reverence — particularly not toward the corporate side of the music industry. But Shawn Crahan (a k a No. 6, the clown) says he and his eight masked and overalls-wearing cohorts are downright flattered to be nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Heavy Metal Performance category.
1-16-01	Slipknot Prepare For Remix, Grammys, And New LP -SonicNet These are quiet days for Slipknot. Of course, with Slipknot, quiet is a relative term. While the masked metal collective isn't currently on the road, the band is busy remixing Marilyn Manson, savoring a Grammy nomination and gearing up for a new album.
1-8-01	Slipknot Thanks 'Maggots' For Grammy Nod -Launch (1/8/01, 1 p.m. ET) - Slipknot affectionately calls its fans "maggots," and band mastermind Shawn Crahan told LAUNCH it's because of those "maggots" that it occurred to Grammy voters to nominate the band's "Wait And Bleed" for best metal performance.
12-11-00	Slaves on Dope Keep Cool in Crazy Scene -Wall of Sound Standing out from the crowd is difficult in any business; it's even more difficult if you are a rap-metal singer and the crowd is Los Angeles. Jason Rockman and Slaves on Dope came a long way to learn that, relocating in May from Montreal, Quebec.
11-29-00	Strait Up Takes It to the Charts -amuZnet Strait Up made a strong debut at number fifty six on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart during Thanksgiving week and found a home among new albums from music's big players including Blink 182, the Spice Girls, and Fatboy Slim.
11-9-00	Slipknot Yank Video From Airwaves -SonicNet Fans who caught Slipknot's video for "Wait and Bleed" recently on MTV might have to savor their memories of the clip, as the band has pulled it from the channel.
11-9-00	Slipknot’s Video Is No More -amuZnet If you missed Slipknot’s “Wait and Bleed” video and were hoping to catch it sometime down the road, you may be out of luck. The hard-core band has pulled the clip from all video outlets, including MTV where it had been shown only 10 times since its release on October 22.
11-8-00	Snot Songs Picked for All-Star Tribute Album -amuZnet California-based, hard-rockin’ outfit Snot met its demise with the tragic loss of lead singer James Lynn Strait, who was killed in a car accident on December 11, 1998.
11-6-00	Artists Pay Tribute to Snot Singer -Wall of Sound After Snot singer James Lynn Strait died in an auto accident on Dec. 11, 1998, his bandmates quickly decided that "a tombstone in a cemetery is not enough for us," according to guitarist Mikey Doling.
10-17-00	Dope Joins Alice Cooper for Tour and Halloween Show -amuZnet With its Flip/Epic debut Felons and Revolutionaries showing success at music stores and tours with Fear Factory, Coal Chamber, Orgy, Slipknot, Powerman 5000, and Kid Rock recently completed, New York rock group Dope is enjoying its performances with Alice Cooper.
8-25-00	Rock Beat: Metallica, Marilyn Manson, Jimmy Page ... -SonicNet The video for Metallica 's "I Disappear" will be included on the Nov. 7 DVD release of "Mission: Impossible 2," according to Paramount Home Video. The video features the band playing the song on a desert plateau in between action sequences featuring each bandmember.
7-18-00	Slipknot, Slayer Make Mark On Tattoo Festival Kickoff -SonicNet PORTLAND, Ore. — Though Stone Temple Pilots put in a one-time-only headlining performance at Saturday's Tattoo the Earth tour kickoff, the masked madmen of Slipknot and speed-metal veterans Slayer generated the day's biggest buzz.
5-2-00	Image Gallery: Slipknot -SonicNet Click here to access the gallery. Slipknot Biography Previous News
3-31-00	Slipknot Cancels Rest Of European Tour -CMJ The nine members of Slipknot recently returned to their hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, after canceling the remaining 12 dates of their European tour. According to a spokesperson at the band's label Roadrunner, Slipknot scrapped the rest of the tour because a few members of the band had to return to the States for the oft-cited "personal reasons."