Tonight, Mancunian maggots are squirming their way back to 1999 – and they’re doing it in style. From mobs clad in red boiler suits to children skipping along in grotesque, hand-made masks, everyone has put the effort into honour Slipknot’s landmark anniversary. Over the last 25 years, the Iowa gang’s self-titled record has only ripened with age – and punters are hoping to experience every inch of its nauseating, bile-spattered noise as viscerally and authentically as grotty basement crowds did all those moons ago.
Before being treated to an evening of laceratingly deep cuts, crowds are treated to some of Glasgow’s finest, Bleed From Within, immersing the Co-Op Live arena in a wave of rumbling metalcore and overwhelming grooves. Frontman Scott Kennedy handles the pressure like a pro, confidently commanding crowds to move, even garnering a sly wall of death. And, if his intimidating growls weren’t already convincing, the bagpipes featured on new track In Place Of Your Halo certainly win the masses over.
