Livestream Preview: Knotfest Online @ Knotfest.com, 6/5, 6/12, 6/19

Posted on 06/04/2020 by Parklifer in Preview and tagged heavy metal, In Flames, Knotfest, livestream, music festival, Slipknot, Suicide Silence.

Suicide Silence (Photo by Hristo Shindov)

Knotfest.com have announced the schedule for the next three weeks of their enormously popular concert streaming series.

Beginning this Friday, June 5, at 11am PST/ 2pm EST / 8pm CET, fans will be able to catch an exclusive livestream from Swedish metallers In Flames with their full headline set from Wacken Festival 2018.

Stream Preview: Knotfest Online @ Knotfest.com, 4/10/20

Posted on 04/07/2020 by Chris R. Smyth in Preview and tagged heavy metal, Knotfest, livestream, music festival, Slipknot.

Knotfest (Photo courtesy Cosa Nostra PR)

The heavy metal festival Knotfest has taken on many forms. Created by Slipknot in 2012, Knotfest originated as a destination festival taking place over the course of a few days. Later iterations of the festival took it to various countries around the world, and even teamed up with Ozzfest along the way.

With the entire globe in social isolation, Knotfest has gone online every Friday, including Friday, April 10, via Knotfest.com.

Best of the Year: Top 10 Photos of 2019 by Chris

Posted on 12/11/2019 by Chris R. Smyth in Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, Alter Bridge, Andy Grammar, Best of 2019, best of the year, blues, Gary Clark Jr., hard rock, heavy metal, In This Moment, Jiffy Lube Live, Judas Priest, Mark Tremonti, MECU Pavilion, Rams Head Live, Rival Sons, Sevendust, Skillet, Slipknot, The Anthem, The Fillmore Silver Spring.

Judas Priest made the list of Chris Smyth’s Top 10 photos of the Year (but not this particular one). (Photo by Chris Smyth)

Editor’s Note: This year, we asked our bloggers to name their Top 10 shows of 2019 or choose their Top 10 photos of the year. We will run them over the course of mid-December as our Best of the Year posts.

It is an odd feeling when you love and hate something simultaneously. The emotions don’t make sense, yet it’s fully real. That is how I feel each time I am tasked with creating this year-end list. I love looking through my old photographs and remembering each concert that I was fortunate enough to attend, and reliving each show through the images that I was able to capture along the way.

Live Review: Knotfest Roadshow @ Jiffy Lube Live — 9/1/19

Posted on 09/05/2019 by Chris R. Smyth in Live Review and tagged Behemoth, Gojira, heavy metal, Iowa, Jiffy Lube Live, Knotfest, Slipknot, Volbeat.

Slipknot performs at Jiffy Lube Live on Sept. 1, 2019. (Photo by Chris Smyth)

The Knotfest Roadshow tore into Jiffy Lube Live recently, featuring a quartet of some of the heaviest metal bands from around the world. The tour’s creators, Slipknot, were joined in support by three bands from Europe- Behemoth (Poland), Gojira (France), and Volbeat (Denmark).