Slipknot Live at the Austin360 Amphitheater

Contributed by Micheal Mullenix

This past Friday night, September 6^th, Central-Texas Metalheads filled the sold-out Austin360 Amphitheater for the return of Slipknot and the Knotfest Roadshow.  Setting off a cacophony after the lights went down, the curtain dropped in front of the stage and the band burst into the song People = Shit.  Slipknot’s performance in 2019 is recharged, complete with new masks, new jumpsuits, more pyro, and a new tiered-stage set up that connects the custom percussion stations to the DJ stations, allowing Clown and the “New Guy” greater mobility.  Plus, it cannot be overlooked that the band had new songs courtesy of the new album, We Are Not Your Kind, and featured All Out Life, Unsainted, and Solway Firth into the mix.  To the uninitiated, the experience of Slipknot is the horrifying effect of being stuck in a foreboding Slasher flick that’s one part Nightmarish Circus and another part Asylum for The Criminally Insane.  The music, the atmosphere, and the band screaming through classic hits like Psychosocial, Wait And Bleed, and The Heretic Anthem, are all a surreal hell-scape from another world.  The beauty of Slipknot’s success is their loyal fanbase, lovingly referred to as the Maggots, who populate this insane scene.  Slipknot has invited you to share in their landscape of crazy, we’re all in this together! Ultimately the band came back to the spotlight one last time and sent the crowd home with a fever pitch performance of Surfacing and Spit It Out.

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Michael Mullenix

Growing up around the world, Michael developed a taste and appreciation for all styles of music. While studying film making at Boston University, he dove headfirst into a mosh-pit and never came out. It was in Boston that he combined his love of film and photography with his drive and passion for being a chronicler of the underground music scene. After graduation he headed to Los Angeles and for over a decade has worked with some of the top musicians and actors in the entertainment industry. Lured to Austin by the cultural explosion in the music and film scenes taking place there, he relocated two years ago and describes Austin as a cultural Shang Ri La!