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Knotfest is a music festival created in 2012 by American heavy metal band Slipknot and their longtime manager and CEO of 5B Artist Management, Cory Brennan. The event has been held both as a destination festival and touring festival in several countries including the United States, Canada and Mexico in North America; Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia in South America; Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom* in Europe, Japan in Asia; and Australia.
Aside from Slipknot, Knotfest has featured a diverse alumni of past performers including metal acts Korn, Deftones, Bring Me the Horizon, Avenged Sevenfold, Limp Bizkit, Lamb of God, Gojira, Judas Priest, Bad Omens; hardcore punk bands Turnstile and Knocked Loose; hip-hop acts Suicideboys and Ghostface Killah and many more
"It's all about having fun and going crazy, bringing it to the standard it used to be," Slipknot's Shawn Crahan told Rolling Stone. "It's time for us to really engulf this idea known as Knotfest where we're in control, we make a day devoted to our mindset, our ideas, the people that we want to play with, the people that we think our fans want to be around... When everyone leaves their senses will overloaded, and I'm talking about smells, sights, hearing, your body, everything is overloaded with stimulation, because that's what Slipknot does."
The inaugural Knotfest was a two-city event and took place on August 17, 2012, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and August 18, 2012, in Somerset, Wisconsin. Among the line-up were bands such as Deftones, Lamb of God, and Cannibal Corpse. On March 24, 2014, it was officially announced that "Knotfest Japan" would be held in November 15 and 16 at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo. Headliners were Slipknot, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Lamb of God, Five Finger Death Punch, Papa Roach, Bring Me the Horizon, Trivium and In Flames. On the first date of the Mayhem Festival 2014, Knotfest 2014 was announced, with it being held at the San Manuel Amphitheater in San Bernardino, California, on October 24–26. Knotfest 2015 was to be held at the same location, from October 23 through 25. In December 2019, it was announced that Knotfest would be held in the United Kingdom for the first time in 2020.
Knotfest launched Hardlore: Stories from Tour hosted by Colin Young and Bo Lueders on March 22, 2022. The series is routinely in the Top 25 of Music Podcast charts and the top weekly heavy music podcast
The Knotfest site is home to She's With the Band, a weekly podcast hosted by Tori Kravitz that focuses on women in the music industry.
In addition, Knotfest is the home to the guitar driven interview series, Defender of the Riff hosted by Daniel Dekay which has appeared live at Blue Ridge Rock Festival and will be appearing at Download Festival in 2025; as well as the behind the scenes docu-series Beyond the Breakdown hosted by Tori Kravitz.
| Friday 17 August | Saturday 18 August | ||
| Slipknot Deftones Serj Tankian Prong |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Lamb of God Machine Head The Urge Dirtfedd |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Slipknot Deftones Serj Tankian The Dillinger Escape Plan |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Lamb of God Machine Head Cannibal Corpse Disconnect Hardcore (Ph) Prong Gojira |
| Friday 24 October | ||
| Suicide Silence Butcher Babies Alterbeast |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | The Black Dahlia Murder Chelsea Grin |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | The Athiarchists |
| Saturday 25 October | |||||
| Slipknot Danzig Anthrax Black Label Society Hatebreed |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Testament Carcass Maximum the Hormone King 810 Man with a Mission |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | In This Moment The Devil Wears Prada Butcher Babies Miss May I One Ok Rock |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | The Faceless Stands with Fists Dehumanizer Kings of Carnage Play for Blood Shortfuse |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Fear Factory Otep Prong Amen Immolation |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | The Athiarchists |
| Sunday 26 October | |||||
| Slipknot Five Finger Death Punch Volbeat Tech N9ne Atreyu Hellyeah |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Of Mice & Men DevilDriver Veil of Maya Nothing More |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Killswitch Engage Whitechapel Upon a Burning Body Anti Mortem |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Dead for Denver Motograter Fire from the Gods I, of Helix A Threat to the Enemy Still Not Dead |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Napalm Death Avatar Attika 7 Exmortus Rattlehead |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | The Athiarchists |
| Saturday 15 November | Sunday 16 November |
| Slipknot Limp Bizkit Lamb of God Papa Roach Bring Me the Horizon Miss May I One Ok Rock SiM Crossfaith coldrain Meaning Crystal Lake HenLee |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Slipknot Korn Trivium In Flames Five Finger Death Punch Amon Amarth Maximum the Hormone Man with a Mission Wagdug Futuristic Unity AA= Knock Out Monkey Make My Day Silhouette from the Skylit |
| Friday 23 October |
| Sepultura The Faceless Rings of Saturn Khaotika Motorbreath |
| Saturday 24 October | |||||
| Judas Priest Korn Mastodon Trivium Corrosion of Conformity |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Body Count At the Gates Red Fang Battlecross |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Gwar Born of Osiris Earth Crisis Goatwhore |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Kataklysm Belphegor Inquisition Abysmal Dawn Her Name in Blood Khaotika |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Fire from the Gods Buried Under Texas Doomsday Mourning Born for War A Tragedy at Hand Grand Lord High Master Piece in Terror Short Fuse Green as Emerald Kaustik Skyburial This Place Is a Zoo Chasing the Bullet |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Street Drum Corps |
| Sunday 25 October | |||||
| Slipknot Bring Me the Horizon Clutch Ghostface Killah Mobb Deep |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Suicidal Tendencies All That Remains Beartooth Kyng |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Cannibal Corpse Helmet Snot Devour the Day |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Dying Fetus Disgorge Internal Bleeding Green Death The ReAktion Kings of Carnage |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | I, of Helix Proletariat Avoid the Void Abhor A Threat to the Enemy Stands with Fists Paranova Everybody Panic! As Oceans Dead Animal Assembly Plant Speaking with Ghost Xero for Life The Darkest Day |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Street Drum Corps |
| Saturday 5 December | |
| Slipknot Megadeth Lamb of God HIM A Day to Remember Trivium Atreyu Asking Alexandria Tanus |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Cradle of Filth Ill Niño The Dillinger Escape Plan Brujeria Resorte 36 Crazyfists Here Comes the Kraken Everyone Likes Cathleen |
| Friday 23 September | ||
| Armored Saint Metal Church Exmortus Thrown into Exile | ||
| Saturday 24 September | |||
| Black Sabbath Disturbed Megadeth Opeth Black Label Society Rival Sons |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Suicidal Tendencies DevilDriver Huntress |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Hatebreed Goatwhore Allegaeon |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Municipal Waste Brujeria Kataklysm The Shrine Still Rebel |
| Sunday 25 September | |||
| Slipknot Slayer Amon Amarth Anthrax Trivium Motionless in White |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Sabaton Suicide Silence Butcher Babies |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Overkill Emmure Man with a Mission |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Whitechapel Combichrist Carnifex Loathe SiM ONI Westfield Massacre |
| Saturday 15 October | |
| Avenged Sevenfold Slayer Marilyn Manson Disturbed Chevelle Alesana Attila S7N |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Meshuggah Killswitch Engage Sevendust Hatebreed DevilDriver The Black Dahlia Murder Volumes Arcadia Libre |
| Sunday 16 October | |||
| Slipknot Deftones The Offspring Ministry Enter Shikari Emmure Thell Barrio Fire from the Gods |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Opeth Arch Enemy Iced Earth Carcass Animals as Leaders Agora Nothing More Sabrina Sabrok Joliette | ||
| Saturday 5 November | Sunday 6 November |
| Slipknot Deftones Disturbed A Day to Remember Hoobastank Issues SiM Rize Rottengraffty Oldcodex coldrain Crystal Lake A Crowd of Rebellion Survive Said the Prophet Jealkb The Sixth Lie |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Slipknot Marilyn Manson Lamb of God In Flames Anthrax Butcher Babies Man with a Mission the GazettE Crossfaith Mucc Her Name in Blood Crazy N' Sane THE冠 (THE Kanmuri) 魔法少女になり隊 (Mahō Shōjo ni Nari-tai) 彼女 in the Display (Kanojo in the Display) Salty Dog |
| Saturday 28 October | |||
| A Perfect Circle Korn Stone Sour Bullet for My Valentine Cannibal Corpse Ill Niño Maximum the Hormone Deadly Apples Cerberus |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Anthrax Children of Bodom Hatebreed Suicide Silence S7N Here Comes the Kraken Lack of Remorse |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Anti-Flag Periphery Tech N9ne Attila ONI Parazit | |
| Friday November 3 | ||
| Monster Magnet Brant Bjork Sasquatch Lo-Pain | ||
| Saturday 4 November | |||
| Ozzy Osbourne Prophets of Rage Deftones Children of Bodom Orange Goblin |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Kreator Baroness High on Fire Iron Reagan |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | 1349 Havok Tombs Night Demon Thrown into Exile | style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Municipal Waste Possessed Kataklysm Suffocation Rings of Saturn |
| Sunday 5 November | |||
| Rob Zombie Marilyn Manson Stone Sour Eighteen Visions Prayers |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Testament The Black Dahlia Murder Code Orange Stitched Up Heart Goatwhore |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Life of Agony Upon a Burning Body Death Angel Oni Ded |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Sid Wilson Repulsion Exhumed Warbringer Ghoul Zombie Eating Horse |
| Friday 26 October | ||
| Judas Priest Helloween Kreator Arch Enemy Masacre Iron Reagan Revocation Goatwhore Kilcrops Under Threat Cuentos de los Hermanos Grind Pitbull | ||
| Thursday 20 June | ||
| Slipknot Rob Zombie Sabaton Amon Amarth Papa Roach Powerwolf Behemoth Ministry Sick of It All Amaranthe | ||
| Lineup | ||
| Slipknot Volbeat Gojira Behemoth | ||
| Knotfest 30 November | |||
| Slipknot (cancelled) Evanescence (cancelled) Cherry Bombs Behemoth Stratovarius Chelsea Grin Carajo Tanus Here Comes the Kraken Matherya |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Godsmack Bullet for My Valentine Papa Roach Nothing More Of Mice & Men Cemican Never Again Headcrusher Kaizan |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | 311 Suicidal Tendencies The Bronx 8 Kalacas Las Poker Project46 Arcadia Libre Parazit Hate Bullets Hankside |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Carcass Belphegor Gore and Carnage Clandestino The Suffering Stone Leek Rejexion Ubon Torcido Monkey Dream Dethdealers The Legion of Hetheria AFK |
| Friday 6 December | |||
| Slipknot Behemoth Testament Unleashed A.N.I.M.A.L. Random Revenge Reencarnación |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | W.A.S.P. Accept Cherry Bombs Stratovarius Perpetual Warfare Arzen |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Carnifex Koyi K Utho Aire Como Plomo Poker Gutgrinder | |
| Saturday 25 September | |||
| Slipknot Suicideboys Gojira Tech N9ne Knocked Loose Gatecreeper Widow7 |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Megadeth Lamb of God Trivium Fever 333 Turnstile Vended | ||
| Lineup | ||
| Slipknot Killswitch Engage Fever 333 Code Orange | ||
| 5 November | ||
| Slipknot Bring Me the Horizon Cherry Bombs Killswitch Engage Fever 333 Code Orange Vended | ||
| March 16 - April 17 | May 18 - June 18 | September 20 - October 7 |
| Slipknot In This Moment Wage War |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Slipknot Cypress Hill Ho99o9 |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Slipknot Ice Nine Kills Crown the Empire |
| 30 July | ||
| Slipknot In Flames Ghostemane Meshuggah Jinjer Tesseract Bleed from Within Malevolence Cattle Decapitation Vended | ||
| Friday 12 August | |||
| Nightwish Lamb of God Arch Enemy Stam1na Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Huora Lähiöbotox Sara Bloodred Hourglass | ||
| Saturday 13 August | |||
| Slipknot Bring Me the Horizon Cradle of Filth Tesseract Blind Channel |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Huoratron Moon Shot Medeia Stoned Statues Shiraz Lane | ||
| 8 December | 13 December | 15 December |
| Slipknot Arde La Sangre |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Judas Priest Horcas |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Trivium .MAR |
| 9 December | ||
| Judas Priest Pantera Bring Me the Horizon Venom Trivium Sepultura Hypocrisy Vended Suicide Silence Samael Walls of Jericho Acutor Ceguera Templa in Cinere Ratos de Porão | ||
| 11 December | ||
| Slipknot Judas Priest Pantera Bring Me the Horizon Mr. Bungle Trivium Sepultura Vended Rama (cancelled) Weichafe (cancelled) Tenemos Explosivos | ||
| 18 December | |||
| Slipknot Bring Me the Horizon Mr. Bungle Motionless in White (cancelled) Vended Project46 Black Pantera|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:230px;" | Judas Priest Pantera Sepultura Trivium Oitão + Jimmy & Rats | ||
| 24 March - 26 March | ||
| Slipknot Parkway Drive Megadeth Trivium Northlane Amon Amarth In Flames Knocked Loose Spiritbox Story of the Year Alpha Wolf Void of Vision Bad Omens* Malevolence | ||
| 1 April | 2 April |
| Slipknot Trivium Man with a Mission In Flames The Oral Cigarettes Enter Shikari Rottengraffty Survive Said the Prophet Red Orca Crystal Lake A Crowd of Rebellion Band-Maid CVLTE THE冠 Asterism Ailiph Doepa Wagamama Rakia |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Slipknot Korn Maximum the Hormone Parkway Drive Coldrain Noisemaker Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas Petit Brabancon Paledusk THE SIXTH LIE 魔法少女になり隊 PRAISE HIKAGE |
| 25 June |
| Slipknot Architects Amon Amarth I Prevail Lorna Shore Nothing More Bleed from Within Destrage |
| Knotfest Australia | ||
| Pantera Lamb of God The Hu Wage War Escape the Fate Speed Brand of Sacrifice |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Disturbed Halestorm Asking Alexandria Thy Art Is Murder Skindred Windwaker King Parrot | |
| Knotfest Australia Sideshows | |||||||||
| Disturbed Wage War |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Pantera King Parrot Black Rheno |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | The Hu |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Lamb of God Brand of Sacrifice |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Asking Alexandria Wage War |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Halestorm Skindred Reliqa |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | The Hu |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Lamb of God Brand of Sacrifice |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Halestorm Skindred Reliqa |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Asking Alexandria Wage War |
| 21 September |
| Slipknot Till Lindemann Knocked Loose Hatebreed Poison the Well Gwar Vended Dying Wish Zulu Twin Temple Holy Wars Swollen Teeth Spine Dose |
| 19 October | 20 October |
| Slipknot Mudvayne Amon Amarth Meshuggah DragonForce Orbit Culture Ratos de Porão Krisiun Project46 Eminience Kryour Eskröta|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | Slipknot Bad Omens Till Lindemann Babymetal P.O.D. Poppy Black Pantera Ego Kill Talent Seven Hours After Violet Korzus Papangu The Mönic |
| 26 October |
| Slipknot Amon Amarth Meshuggah Babymetal Arde la Sangre NVLO |
| 2 November |
| Slipknot Disturbed Mudvayne Amon Amarth Babymetal Poppy Orbit Culture Rama Mawiza SVVVNT Nico Borie |
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 |
| Slipknot Babymetal Slaughter to Prevail Enter Shikari In Hearts Wake Miss May I Sunami |style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top; width:200px;" | A Day to Remember Polaris Within Temptation Hatebreed Health Vended Drain |
| 6 December |
| Marilyn Manson Falling In Reverse Slaughter to Prevail Shinedown While She Sleeps Hanabie. Fit For an Autopsy |
Pulse of the Maggots Festival 2020
| + !NOV 13, 2020 |
| Hacktivist October Ends PRXJEK Cerberus Orbit Culture Tallah dEMOTIONAL Vended SCARLET Year of the Knife Introtyl Wargasm Diamond Construct VCTMS Death Blooms Death Tour Thrown into Exile Once Awake 156 Silence I Revolt |
Pulse of the Maggots Festival 2x21
| + !June 25, 2021 |
| Hyro the Hero As Everything Unfolds Lotus Eater Gaerea Baest Elyne Abbie Falls Cult of Lilith Capra Earthists Pupil Slicer Superbloom Druid |
| + !March 11, 2022 |
| Shadow of Intent Brutus Creeping Death Vexed Enforced Kid Bookie Witch Fever Bala Dödsrit Four Stoke Baron Blanket Wowod Knoll thoughtcrimes Urne Akiavel Moon Unit Dumah |
| + !August 10, 2022 |
| Sylosis Orbit Culture Heriot SpiritWorld Rough Justice All Hail The Yeti Thrown Into Exile Cauldron |
| + !March 18, 2023 |
| The Callous Daoboys Creeping Death Escuela Grind Militarie Gun Soul Glo VCTMS |
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