The Seven Songs Slipknot Performed at Their First-Ever Ozzfest Display

Over 25 years in the past, Slipknot, who hadn’t even launched their debut album but, performed their first-ever Ozzfest display — a seven-song set of absolute fury.

The hell-raising tournament’s 1999 tour introduced on Would possibly 27, bringing a few of steel’s maximum premiere acts, up-and-comers and hopeful unknowns on an extended highway throughout the U.S. and Canada, wrapping up on the finish of July.

Billed slightly low had been a brand spanking new band from Iowa, who took their first primary steps in converting steel ceaselessly.

Underneath, view Slipknot’s setlist from their Ozzfest debut, see who else performed that 12 months and skim reflections from Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan about the entire revel in.

Ozzfest’s 1999 Major Degree

Black Sabbath
Rob Zombie
Deftones
Slayer
Primus toes. Buckethead
Machine of a Down
Godsmack

Ozzfest 1999 2nd Degree

Drain STH
Concern Manufacturing facility
Static-X
Hed PE
Pushmonkey
Slipknot
Puya
Flashpoint
Condominium 26

Clown: “Six Songs, 25 Mins. We Went Exhausting That Summer time”

For Slipknot, the publicity to huge crowds leading to fast validation that their visible and musical imaginative and prescient was once a power by no means ahead of observed in steel.

In an oral historical past of Ozzfest, revealed via Billboard, founder Clown recollects, “Slipknot was once simply beginning out, and after practices we might watch that little VHS video tape they put out of the primary 12 months [The Ozzfest: Live] that had Earth Disaster, Coal Chamber, Neurosis, Slayer, a number of the bands. We’re practising, practising, practising, we’re observing the tape over and over again and over, simply dreaming: “Wouldn’t it’s cool if someday we may well be authorised, and other folks appreciated us? We may well be in this competition, shall we play, after which, you realize, move watch Earth Disaster!”

Ozzfest 1996: Reside

“We owe the Osbournes so much,” he continues, “They introduced us. As a result of we had been not anything. So we needed to move in the market and end up it. However the factor with us is once we’re in combination and we’re onstage, it’s us towards everyone. Six songs, 25 mins, we went laborious that summer time.” Whilst Slipknot performed seven songs on the Ozzfest opener, their set was once most commonly produced from six songs for the rest of the run. One of the vital band’s maximum enduring songs, akin to “(sic),” “Wait and Bleed” and “Surfacing” had been carried out onstage that day.

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As for a way laborious Slipknot went onstage, Crahan additionally tells Billboard, “I reduce my head open onstage. I reduce it on a mic stand – it’s an extended tale. I used to be completely subconscious, they usually pulled me down the ramp and attempted to take me away in an ambulance. I used to be like, ‘Cling on, I wanna watch the remainder of ‘Wait and Bleed.’’ And I simply stored telling the ambulance other folks, ‘Have a look at that band!’ I’m observing my band play, they usually’re f–king out of keep an eye on. They didn’t even know I used to be long gone!”

Learn all the oral historical past of Ozzfest function right here. View Slipknot’s first-ever Ozzfest setlist under and notice pictures from their 199 debut on the historical steel competition.

Slipknot Setlist — Would possibly 27, 1999 (First-Ever Ozzfest Display)

“(sic)”
“Eyeless”
“Wait and Bleed”
“Unlock”
“Surfacing”
“Purity”
“Eeyore

by the use of setlist.fm

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