Slipknot, the Des Moines band whose 1999 debut made them an international name, play their only British and European date of the (sic)est Stadium Tour.
Slipknot, the Iowa band who won the Grammy for Best Metal Performance with “Before I Forget”, play Wembley Stadium on Saturday 3 July 2027. It is their only British or European date of the (sic)est Stadium Tour.
The percussionist Shawn Crahan founded the band in Des Moines in 1995 with the vocalist Anders Colsefni and the bassist Paul Gray. Their self-titled debut album of 1999, made as a nine-piece, turned a local band into an international one.
Iowa followed in 2001. The Grammy came in 2006, and All Hope Is Gone entered the American album chart at number one in 2008. Paul Gray died in 2010, and the band kept recording through The End, So Far in 2022, with Corey Taylor fronting every record.
In Britain they have headlined the Download Festival more than once, and their 2013 set there played to around 90,000 people. Their last London date was The O2 in December 2024, and Wembley moves them into the stadium.
Marilyn Manson, Lorna Shore and Hatebreed play on the bill beneath them. The tour shares its name with the band’s own label, (Sic)est.