Slipknot announce January 2020 UK & Ireland arena tour

They play nine shows

Slipknot's Corey Taylor
Author: Scott ColothanPublished 22nd Aug 2019
Last updated 22nd Aug 2019

Fresh from storming to Number 1 on the UK album chart with their phenomenal sixth studio album ‘We Are Not Your Kind’, Slipknot have announced a nine-date UK & Ireland tour for January 2020.

Last month the Iowan masked nonet teased the tour when they unveiled the eight UK cities they will be playing in 2020 - Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Sheffield, Nottingham, Cardiff, Birmingham and London.

Now it’s been confirmed that the Download Festival 2019 headliners' trek takes place in January and will be preceded by a date at Dublin 3Arena. They will be joined by Polish purveyors of blackened death metal, Behemoth, at all shows.

Following the UK & Ireland leg, the band head out on an extensive tour throughout Europe.

The UK & Ireland tour dates are as follows:

JANUARY 2020

Dublin 3Arena – Tue 14th

Manchester Arena – Thu 16th

Newcastle Utilita Arena – Fri 17th

Glasgow The SSE Hydro – Sat 18th

Sheffield FlyDSA Arena – Mon 20th

Nottingham Motorpoint Arena – Tue 21st

Cardiff Motorpoint Arena – Wed 22nd

Birmingham Arena – Fri 24th

London The O2 – Sat 25th

Slipknot singer Corey Taylor enthuses: “It feels good to be coming back for an extensive tour of Europe and the UK. No matter how many times we come there, it always feels like we can never get enough, nor play ALL the cities we want to. But one thing’s for certain: the audiences are ALWAYS some of the best in the world.”

Tickets to Slipknot’s January 2020 tour go on sale from Kerrang! Radio Tickets at 9am on Friday 30th August.

‘We Are Not Your Kind’ ended Ed Sheeran’s four-week reign at the top of the Official UK Album Chart last Friday and it became Slipknot’s first number one album since their brutal tour-de-force ‘Iowa’ in 2001.

Additionally, it was the first heavy metal album to reach the summit since Iron Maiden’s ‘The Book of Souls’ back in September 2015 and only the fifth metal chart topper this decade.

The album has also reached number one in another eight countries - USA, Australia, Canada, Japan, Ireland, Belgium, Finland and Portugal – and has debuted in the Top 3 in Germany, France, Norway, Italy, The Netherlands and New Zealand.

Yesterday, Slipknot fans on reddit claimed to have finally discovered the identity Slipknot’s mystery percussionist, Tortilla Man.

You can read more about that story right here.

Slide through to see Slipknot's masks through the years:

Slipknot in 2000

Slipknot wearing trademark white boiler suits and their horrorshow masks in 2000

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The UK tour poster looks like this:

Slipknot 2020 UK & Ireland Tour

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