Metal Blade Records have issued that Three Day Destination Festival Features The Biggest Bands In Heavy Music With Two Special Saturday And Sunday Late Night Closing Sets By Slipknot At San Manuel Amphitheater & Campgrounds In San Bernardino, CA
Festival Features More Than 60 Bands On 5 Stages Including:
Slipknot, Danzig, Five Finger Death Punch,Volbeat, Anthrax, Killswitch Engage, Black Label Society, Testament, The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, and more.
Early Bird Discounted Tickets (While Supplies Last) & Camping Packages On Sale Now At www.knotfest.com
Slipknot are set to return to the U.S. with their own KNOTFEST–an extraordinary three-day metal and heavy music destination festival–to be held October 24-26 at San Manuel Amphitheater & Campgrounds in San Bernardino, CA. This marks the first time KNOTFEST will be held in the same location for multiple days.
KNOTFEST U.S. 2014–powered by Rockstar Energy Drink–will feature a Slipknot-curated lineup of over 60 bands performing on five stages on Saturday and Sunday, as well as a Friday night VIP Pre-Party Bash, band performances and other activities for those that purchase VIP or Camping Packages. The weekend will feature performances from Slipknot, Danzig, Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat, Anthrax, Killswitch Engage, Tech N9ne, Of Mice & Men, Black Label Society, Testament, Hatebreed, Atreyu, In This Moment, Carcass and many more. A list of artists performing each day is available now at: www.knotfest.com.
Slipknot will close the Main Stage both Saturday and Sunday, with unique sets each night, featuring brand new music and an entirely new stage set and experience. In addition, all ticket purchasers will receive a digital copy of Slipknot’s forthcoming album, to be delivered on release date.
“KNOTFEST is a chance for Slipknot to bring the sensory-overload of a wild European festival–and now we’re coming for you, California,” says Slipknot’s M. Shawn Crahan (Clown). “Playing two different sets over two nights at one location is a new experience in the history of this band. This year’s Knotfests in the U.S. and Japan are going to be on another level.”
Every KNOTFEST has been a fully immersive experience for fans, and this one ups the ante. In addition to performances from more than 60 of the heaviest bands on the planet, attendees will descend into an apocalyptic underworld featuring over 20 festival attractions including a Slipknot Museum (curated by the band), carnival rides, a zip line across the festival grounds, drum circles, pillars of fire, freaks, fire-breathers, stilt-walkers, and so much more.
Campers and VIP ticket holders receive a free Friday night KNOTFEST show with Suicide Silence, The Black Dahlia Murder, Butcher Babies and more, as well as an early preview of the festival area and Slipknot Museum showcasing the band’s history. VIP ticket holders also can attend a Friday night special VIP Pre-Party Bash with music by Slipknot’s DJ Sid.
KNOTFEST tickets are on sale now at http://www.knotfest.com. Limited quantities of Early Bird Discounted 2-day and 1-day festival tickets, as well as Camping Packages are available while supplies last at http://www.knotfest.com. VIP packages go on sale Wednesday, July 9 at 10:00 AM PT. A limited number of four different levels of VIP packages will be available with amenities including exclusive merchandise bundles, early entrance to a 21+ VIP Lounge, Pit Pass or the best Reserved Seats in the house, preferred parking and more. Hotel packages and travel packages will be available soon. To view all ticket options for KNOTFEST, visit: http://www.knotfest.com.
Doors open at 11:00 AM each day and the show runs until 12:30 AM on Saturday and 11:30 PM on Sunday. The KNOTFEST camping area will be located in a grassy county park adjacent to the venue’s VIP area.
KNOTFEST is a short drive from San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego, San Joaquin Valley, and many more cities in the Southwestern USA.
Visit www.knotfest.com, www.facebook.com/KNOTFEST and www.twitter.com/KNOTFEST for the most-up-to-date information.
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We play first show in USA in Santa Ana. My trip startedat 10 pm the previous day and since then I am bound to get no sleep for almosttwenty four hours. We leave to the States from Warsaw at 4am on Friday. We land in Los Angeles around Fridaynoon. Seems like a fast journey but we ‘lost’ 9 hours on our way, due to thetime zone difference. We’re picked up by Steve (Precision Metal Booking), getonto the bus and head for Santa Ana.Short distance, again no sleep. After our arrival we need to arrange our gear.Almost all of us got their gear provided by the US endorser. Spider has Schecter’sguitar and me a beautiful Blakhart bass guitar. After soundcheck we go to thenightiner for 3-4 hours of sleep…FINALLY!!! I wake up 2 hours before getting onstage. Go to the club – there’s a LOT ofpeople! Didn’t expect such a turnout. Quick change for stage clothes and I’mready. I get to see Vital Remain’s show for a while and here comes the time forus. We have no problems on stage. The audience greets us well. We play “HellAwaits” (Slayer) for encore. Right after the show we go straight to the buswhere we split a “welcome” vodka with Vital Remains and finally go to sleep.
I started my trip to US a day earlier, after I jumped into the Radex bus travelling to Warsaw at 6:20 PM. I booked for me and James familiar hotel “56” near the terminal. Wake up call set for 3:30 AM (Damned !!!!) , taxi drive to the airport and meeting with rest of Vader team. Our 14 hours long KLM flight to LA through Amsterdamn went nice and smooth so yet the same day (Sept. 6th) we get into our nightliner about noon. This is gonna be our house for next month and we share it with guys from VITAL REMAINS and SUICIDAL SLAUGHTER. There is so nice and cool inside as california sonic hell is raging outside. We headed to the Yost Theatre at once. I like this place. A soundcheck took about an hour and … we went to sleep. 9 hours difference is real pain in the ass. When I started my preparation for a show, Suicidal Slaughter were raging on stage already. I saw a little of Vital Remains show too. LA is the place, where I met those guys for a first time in 1993 when we visited US for a first time. Brian lost His best friend today (this is what I was told about) so He’s tearing the air with screaming then throwing out aside the stage pretty intense. Then came tearing a bible apart… It is not forbidden in US as I see 😉 Quitw many people in the club. About 400 I guess. Response was great since opening “Sothis”! THX Santa Ana !!!!! Good start is priority tho. 110 % morale 😉 Quick interview for local internet portal (no idea how was I be able to do it…), cold vodka with old Friends from Vital and I reached my bett at about 3:30 AM. We drive to Frisco in few hours…
After something like a 17-hour journey we arrived at LAX to meet the tour promoter and the nightliner. There’s not much to say about the travel. It was just ok, no major complications, reasonably comfortable and of course boring as hell. We got straight on the nightliner driven by our resident sociopath, Ray, and headed straight for the Yost Theater. There we met our companions for the tour including our old friends Vital Remains and other support bands Sacrificial Slaughter, Execration and Extremely Rotten. We had a soundcheck (where I got to try out some new toys from Meinl cymbals and Tama drums) and then went straight to bed – as by this point it was around 23:00/00:00 in Poland. A few hours later after a nap, a coffee, a quick warm up and a line check and we were ready to hit the stage and it was really great to see so many people attending the first show and despite our condition and some problems with the sound onstage we actually had a lot of fun! All that was left was to pack down the equipment, get back to the bus and relax. A really promising start to the tour indeed!
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