Now that Slipknot are about to embark on their 25th anniversary tour, let’s look back at what songs were and weren’t on their setlist 25 years ago.
The trek, which features support from Orbit Culture and Knocked Loose, is kicked off last night (Aug. 6) in Noblesville, Indiana. It was their fifth show of 2024, following an intimate one-off concert and a handful of festival performances.
At their first concert of the year, which took place at a small venue in Pioneertown, Calif. and was also their debut with new drummer Eloy Casagrande, the band came out in red jumpsuits. The longtime members who’ve been around since the Slipknot era also donned masks that resembled the ones they wore back in the late ’90s.
The current tour is dubbed “Here Comes the Pain,” and during last night’s performance, Slipknot played their 1999 self-titled album in full. So, we thought it would be cool to go back in time and see what was on the Knot’s setlist 25 years ago so that we can compare it to what they end up playing throughout the rest of this tour.
We went to Setlist.fm and looked up their average setlist from the year 1999, which only featured seven songs. See it below.
Slipknot – Average Setlist in 1999 [via Setlist.fm]
01. (sic)
02. Eyeless
03. Wait and Bleed
04. Surfacing
05. Purity
06. Spit It Out
07. Eeyore
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Slipknot played a total of 13 songs throughout 1999. Aside from the ones mentioned in the average setlist above, they also performed “Scissors,” “Liberate,” “Prosthetics,” “Get This,” “Only One” and “No Life” at some point during the year [via Setlist.fm].
Thus, the Slipknot tracks “Tattered & Torn” and “Diluted” were omitted from their performances that year. However, the latter may have been left off because of how personal it was for Corey Taylor.
“After [recording] ‘Diluted,’ I was bawling my eyes out,” the singer recalled during a 2001 interview on the Radio 1 Rock Show.
While they still play a lot of the songs they played back in 1999, they dusted off some rarities for the show last night. Prior to the concert in Noblesville, the last time “Only One” was played was in 2012, whereas “Scissors” and “No Life” hadn’t been played since 2000.
See all the upcoming dates on Slipknot’s website.
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