Corey Taylor wasn’t lying when he said the members of Slipknot would be dusting off some older hits for their 2022 tour. During their performance last night (March 16), the band played “Snuff” for the first time in almost a decade, and “Dead Memories” for the first time since 2016.
For both of the preceding All Hope Is Gone tracks, the group also performed their latest single, “The Chapeltown Rag,” which was released in the fall.
“My friends — no, my bad — my fucking family, we are about to play you a song that we have not played live in 13 years. And I can count, on this hand, the amount of times that we played it live,” Taylor announced to the crowd before playing “Snuff.
“And we have brought it out simply for you. So if you know it, help me sing.”
Check out fan-made video clips for “Snuff” and “Dead Memories” below.
According to Setlist.FM, Slipknot most recently played “Snuff” in August 2012 at a music festival in Montreal. Taylor has played it dozens of times during his solo performances since then, but this is the very first-time Slipknot have tackled the song without late drummer Joey Jordison, who retired from the band in 2013 and tragically died in July 2021.
“‘Snuff’ is probably is one of the [songs] that means the most to me now just because of the correlation between it and Paul [Gray],” Taylor told Kerrang! of the song. “Really, if Paul hadn’t championed that song, I don’t think we would have recorded it. But he loved it and saw the potential with it and really wanted us to do it. So now when I play it during my solo shows, that’s who that’s for. I try to do it as well as I can.”
The first leg of Knotfest, which also features In This Moment and Wage War, continues tomorrow night (March 18) in Omaha, Neb. See the rest of the dates here.
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