SLIPKNOT Begins Tour With All-New Show

The Pulse of Radio reports: SLIPKNOT begins its first solo headlining tour in support of the band's latest album, "All Hope Is Gone", on Friday (January 23) in St. Paul, Minnesota. Frontman Corey Taylor told The Pulse of Radio that fans who saw the group on last summer's Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival trek will get a different show this time around. "I mean, obviously we'll have as much time as we want," he said. "We put a whole new stage set together. We're getting away from the pyro. We're going way more visual this time. We're incorporating a lot of video, a lot of, like, really cool elements, but we're not, it's not gonna be hokey."

Taylor added that it's important for SLIPKNOT to do something new every time it goes out on the road. "Nobody wants to do the same thing over and over, and we're a band that we work harder when we know the concept is real, and when we know it's important and it's vital," he said. "So for us, it's important to get out there and just do a new show every time, every time, every time, and really try to bring something different, because we've got people still coming to see us for, you know, after ten years, and we just want to try and give something special."

The 33-city tour will run through mid-March and feature SLIPKNOT's first-ever gig at New York City's prestigious Madison Square Garden. Joining the bill as opening acts will be TRIVIUM and COHEED AND CAMBRIA.

SLIPKNOT's latest release, "All Hope Is Gone", has been certified gold for moving more than 500,000 copies since its arrival last August. It was also the band's first No. 1 debut on the Billboard chart.