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Slipknot Line Up Tour Dates; New Album To Be Released in Spring 2004 By Sefany Jones, Contributing Editor Friday, December 26, 2003 @ 3:38 PM
Slipknot Sets Europe, Japan Dates
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Masked metal act Slipknot has added a June 4 stop at Lisbon's Rock in Rio festival to its 2004 tour calendar, which currently features only a handful of international stops.
The nine-member Iowa-based group is also slated to play Japan's Sonicmania Festival (Jan. 31 in Osaka and Feb. 1 in Tokyo) and a June 21 date in Amsterdam with Metallica.
Metallica will also play Rock in Rio on June 4. Others slated to play the May 29-30 and June 3-6 event at the Bela Vista Parque in the Portuguese capital include Guns N' Roses, Sting, Alejandro Sanz, Xutos & Pontapes, Ivete Sangalo and Rui Veloso.
Slipknot has spent the past few months in Los Angeles recording a new album at a mansion once owned by Harry Houdini and said to be haunted the famed magician. Rick Rubin, who worked with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their breakthrough 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, is producing the act's fourth studio set, its third for Roadrunner. The as-yet-untitled work is due in the spring.
"I know that all bands say that their 'new' record is gonna be the best, but in all sincerity this is gonna show all the new bands how it's really done," drummer Joey Jordison (aka. No. 2) said. "We are comin' back to reclaim the crown of the world's most brutally honest and insane band."
Released in September 2001, the band's last album, Iowa, debuted at No. 3 on The Billboard 200, besting a No. 51 peak for the previous year's self-titled Roadrunner debut. The albums have sold 852,000 and 1.6 million copies in the U.S., respectively, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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