Slipknot lastly carried out the music “Gematria (The Killing Identify)” on Friday night time (February twenty eighth) on the kickoff of their Knotfest Australia mini-tour in Melbourne. The observe from 2008’s All Hope Is Gone is one which frontman Corey Taylor beforehand believed the band would “by no means play” reside.
“Gematria (The Killing Identify)” was the third music of the set, following favorites “(sic)” and “Folks = Shit.” Total, Slipknot performed 14 songs, with “Psychosocial” being the one different tune represented from All Hope Is Gone.
In 2023, throughout an interview with the All Issues Music podcast (as transcribed by Revolver), Taylor defined that if it had been as much as him, the band would’ve already carried out “Gematria (The Killing Identify),” however that his bandmates weren’t too eager on taking part in the music.
“I’ve all the time wished to open a live performance with ‘Gematria,’” he defined. “There are particular odiums round the way in which that that music was created and recorded, which is why a number of the guys within the band are like, ‘Fuck that, we’ll by no means play it.’”
He continued, “[The reason] isn’t even sentimental…It’s resentment. However for me, man, it’s such a fucking burner that I simply love that music. I can hearken to that shit all fucking day. It simply comes screaming out of no-fucking-where. Nevertheless it’ll by no means occur. Except the Pope finally ends up opening up for Slipknot sometime, that shit won’t ever occur.”
Slipknot have three extra Australia reveals and one New Zealand date arising, adopted by a run of European festivals in June (choose up tickets right here). As of now, their solely North American present of 2025 is slated for July nineteenth on the Inkcarceration Competition in Mansfield, Ohio.
Watch Slipknot give “Gematria (The Killing Identify)” its reside debut in Melbourne, Australia under.
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