SLIPKNOT At Italy's SONISPHERE: Photos, Video Footage Available
June 29, 2011Fan-filmed video footage of SLIPKNOT's June 25, 2011 performance at the Sonisphere festival in Imola, Italy can be seen below.
Photos of the concert are available on Musica Metal.
The band's setlist for the 60-minute show was as follows:
01. (sic)
02. Eyeless
03. Wait and Bleed
04. The Blister Exists
05. Before I Forget
06. Disasterpiece
07. Psychosocial
08. The Heretic Anthem
09. Duality
10. Spit It Out
11. People = Shit
12. Surfacing
Musica Metal reports that turntablist Sid Wilson once again dove into the crowd from a high spot on the roof of a sideways building. The fans picked him up and crowd-surfed him to the stage.
SLIPKNOT played its first headlining show since the death of bassist Paul Gray on June 21 at Columbiahalle in Berlin, Germany. As was the case with the band's appearances at the Sonisphere festivals in Greece, Turkey and Switzerland, Gray's red jumpsuit, mask and bass guitar stood at the back of the stage while his bandmates performed. The rest of the group's members donned red jumpsuits and older versions of their trademark masks from SLIPKNOT's earlier days, in tribute to their fallen bandmate.
SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan told The Pulse Of Radio recently that Gray would somehow still be part of the band's show. "Just because he's gone, does that mean I have to take him out of the scenario and the answer is no," he said. "He will a part of SLIPKNOT's stage, he will be a part of SLIPKNOT's music, he will be a part of everything that we do for the rest of our lives. And he wants me artistically to bring him in, some twisted, maybe even demented way into the show."
Playing bass for the band is Donnie Steele, who was the guitarist in an early incarnation of the group. Steele, however, is hidden from the audience's view.
Gray passed away in May 2010 from an accidental overdose of drugs, leaving behind his wife Brenna and daughter October, who was born the following August.
Photos below courtesy of Musica Metal
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