'I don't know when Clown’s gonna show up…' says the surprisingly friendly, kind and paternal 43-year-old, without a hint that he's joking. And at the centre of the madness is Shawn ' Clown' Crahan.Īt 3pm, Clown’s not here. All of it is music to get a black eye to. The really-aired Get This is the most extreme noise ever made on the stage. The eight men criss-cross the stage like masked atoms smashing around the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and the power coming off them could light hell for a thousand years. Up on stage, wearing white boiler suits that give the impression of fallen angels, there is violence. They've wound 90,000 people up to breaking point and let them loose on one another. This is the second time Slipknot have to call a halt to the mayhem. And then they open fire again, and chaos is restored. Everyone's given a moment to get the beast back on its leash. The out of control band get things under control. Make no mistake, the return of Slipknot to the Download Main Stage is fucking pandemonium.Īnd then it stops. There are bruises, scratches and dislocated shoulders in the pits. Things have reached such fever pitch during a furious Left Behind that the architects of madness have put a stop to it to regain order. “Everybody take one step back! The barrier's collapsed!' This is the chaos unfolding in front of Corey Taylor's eyes.

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