SLIPKNOT

BEHEMOTH

O2 ARENA, LONDON

Corey Taylor and Nergal bring a theatre of brutality to the Docklands

emerged from the bowels of the Iowa Bible belt in 1999, there was nothing else like them. Unhinged. Volatile. Nihilistic. The sight of nine masked, boiler-suited men beating the shit out of themselves at their legendary first UK gig at the London Astoria was as exhilarating as it was terrifying. Most people assumed they would implode within a year. Yet here we are. Two decades on, the band are arguably bigger than ever. Sure, the huge screens advertising everything from Knotfest At Sea to Slipknot whiskey speak to the magnitude of Slipknot ‘The Brand’, but what the band have built permeates much further than that. Tonight,