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SLIPKNOT

BANC OF CALIFORNIA STADIUM, LOS ANGELES

Iowa’s masked icons bring their wrecking ball to Tinseltown

it’s 1999. You’re at Ozzfest. It’s early in the day at the second stage, and you’ve just seen Puya – a salsa-loving Cuban prog band – and some industrial also-rans called Apartment 26. Then, nine masked men in boiler suits storm out, armed with the harshest nu metal you’ve ever heard. One of them is a pig. That one has nails sticking out of his head. That other one’s jerking his nose off. They’ve

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