Are they monsters? Are they explosive metal machines? Or are they just masquerade mutants in limbo? They are everything that has been mentioned and more… we are of course talking about the 9 piece metal band from Iowa, Slipknot that have been busy entertaining huge crowds at the Hammersmith Apollo in London.
Corey Taylor and Joey Jordinson by Alexandra McLoughlin
Every time that the Grammy Award winning band Slipknot, produce an album each member makes a distinctive change to their mask and as this tour was based on the new album All Hope Is Gone the fans were very excited and looking forward to seeing what masks they would be revealing this time.
Slipknot On Fire - Pic by Alexandra McLoughlin
- Shawn Crahan – Picture by Alexandra McLoughlin
During the violent performance of “Duality” Shawn Crahan attemped to break an empty barrel with a baseball bat and at that point the crowed became even more insane that empty bottles were thrown on the stage.
Corey Taylor - Pic by Alexandra McLoughlin
It wasn’t until Corey screamed these words “F..k it all, f..k this world, F..K EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR!” than loud gunshot noises came out from Mick Thomson, Jim Root and Paul Gray’s guitars and the crowd became even more uncontrollable.
The fans seemed to enjoy their performance of “Wait and Bleed”.
But what everyone was looking forward to the controversial performance of “Spit It Out” which is also referred as the “Zero Bullshit”. Near the end of the song there was a pause with a coda where the music builds up to a highly energetic section and Corey Taylor screamed very loud to the crowed:
“Get the f**k down on the ground”
So all the fans obeyed as if they were in a concentration camp.
Then he said: “when I say jump the f**k up, what are you gonna do?!”
There was a silence.
Then Corey shouted again: “I asked you a f**king question, when I say jump the f**k up, what are you gonna do?!”
Crowd answered: “JUMP DA F**K UP!!!
To make things even more exciting Shawn Crahan’s elevating drum kit ended up in the air as it slowly spun and Sid Wilson decided to dangle off it and start swinging. When he wasn’t attached to Shawn’s drums, Sid Wilson continuously ran around the stage and even jumped onto Chris Fehn’s drum as it tilted backwards and forwards.
- Shawn Crahans Elevating Drums by Aleaxandra McLoughlin
Craig Jones (Picture by Alexandra McLoughlin)
Joey Jordinson pic by Alexandra McLoughlin
