Slipknot Announce 2025 Knotfest Headline Shows

US heavy metal icons Slipknot have extended their trip down south, adding headline dates alongside their upcoming appearance at Knotfest.

Having already announced their first trip to Australia since Knotfest 2023 as part of next year’s edition of the festival, the group have now revealed they’ll be performing two headline dates in Adelaide, South Australia and Auckland, New Zealand while they’re here.

Slipknot will perform at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena on March 4th, making it their first time in the City of Churches since Soundwave 2015, and their first headline date in SA since 2008.

Meanwhile, Kiwi fans fans will get the chance to catch the group at Spark Arena on March 11th. This will be their fourth-ever show in New Zealand, and first in the country since 2016.

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Slipknot announced their Australian return in October as part of the 2025 return of Knotfest, which takes place across February and March in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney.

The high-powered festival sees the Iowa natives joined by the likes of international heavyweights A Day To Remember, BABYMETAL, Slaughter To Prevail, Hatebreed, and Enter Shikari. Local favourites Polaris and In Hearts Wake also make the cut for the travelling festival.

Tickets to Slipknot’s upcoming headline shows go on sale from 2pm local time on Tuesday, December 10th, with Knotfest Premium Members and Destroy All Lines pre-sales also going on sale from Thursday, December 5th. Pre-sale registrations are available now.