SLIPKNOT Announce 2025 AU/NZ KNOTFEST Sideshows

After months of relentless chaos and sold-out arenas, SLIPKNOT has announced two exclusive headline sideshows next year on the heels of KNOTFEST AUSTRALIA, visiting Adelaide’s AEC Arena on Tuesday 4 March, and Spark Arena in Auckland on Tuesday 11 March.

As always, attendees can expect a performance unlike any other, from a band who only get more thrilling, exciting and cathartic as time goes on. Having released a new record in 2022, ‘The End, So Far’ (crowned at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart; their fourth consecutive album to do so), SLIPKNOT refuse to rest on past glories and continue to innovate, with fan favourites including as many new songs as older. Between enduring fan-revered singles like Duality, Psychosocial and Wait and Bleed, as well as deeper cuts and newer material over the years, SLIPKNOT’s drive and creativity bleeds through their jaw-dropping live performances.

In 2012, the journey to creating a platform of their own in KNOTFEST, was born out of SLIPKNOT’s dedication to creating a memorable live experience for audiences around the world. Headline slots at some of the world’s biggest festivals including Download, Wacken, Rock In Rio, Louder Than Life, Hellfest and more perfectly set SLIPKNOT up with the ambition to take things further; building their own festival that not only championed new waves of incredible talent, but enshrined their own status as one of the best bands to do it.

The music and counterculture experience that is KNOTFEST will hit the East coast of Australia starting on Friday, February 28^th at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, then heads to Brisbane on Sunday, March 2^nd at Brisbane Showground before wrapping up in Sydney on Saturday, March 8^th at Centennial Park.

Headlined by SLIPKNOT, the 2025 festival line-up also includes A DAY TO REMEMBER, BABYMETAL, SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL, POLARIS, WITHIN TEMPTATION, ENTER SHIKARI, HATEBREED, IN HEARTS WAKE, HEALTH, MISS MAY I, VENDED and SUNAMI.

Tickets for KNOTFEST are on sale now, and don’t miss your chance to catch SLIPKNOT in a headline setting next March in Adelaide and Auckland; these tickets definitely won’t last long!

SLIPKNOT
KNOTFEST 2025 HEADLINE SIDESHOWS

Knotfest Premium Members pre-sale on sale Thursday 5 December @ 9am local time
Promoter early bird pre-sale tickets on sale Thursday 5 December @ 10am local time -> REGISTER HERE
General tickets are on sale Thursday 10 December @ 2pm local time via destroyalllines.com

TUESDAY 4 MARCH – AEC ARENA, ADELAIDE
TUESDAY 11 MARCH – SPARK ARENA, AUCKLAND

SLIPKNOT
KNOTFEST 2025 HEADLINE SIDESHOWS

TUESDAY 4 MARCH – AEC ARENA, ADELAIDE
TUESDAY 11 MARCH – SPARK ARENA, AUCKLAND

KNOTFEST AUSTRALIA 2025
DATES AND VENUES:

Slipknot
A Day To Remember
BABYMETAL, Slaughter To Prevail, Polaris
Within Temptation, Enter Shikari, Hatebreed
In Hearts Wake, HEALTH, Miss May I, Vended, Sunami

Friday 28 February 2025 – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne
Sunday 2 March 2025 – Brisbane Showground, Brisbane
Saturday 8 March 2025 – Centennial Park, Sydney

Tickets on sale from Knotfest.com/Australia