Nineteen dates, three continents and, in the words of Consequence, the biggest venues Slipknot have headlined yet. The (sic)est Stadium Tour opens at Wembley Stadium on 3 July 2027, runs through 13 North American dates between 16 July and 18 August, and closes with five South American shows that end in Bogotá on 16 September.
The tour was announced on 28 September and went on general sale on 2 October. Here is the run in numbers, who opens each night, how the tickets were sold, the record behind it and how it compares with Metallica’s residency at Sphere.
The Run in Numbers
The shape is simple: one European date, one long North American leg and a short South American finish. According to the full list published by Consequence and Exclaim!, the 19 shows break down like this:
- United Kingdom, 1 date: Wembley Stadium, London, 3 July.
- North America, 13 dates: Washington, D.C. (Nationals Park, 16 July), Queens (Citi Field, 18 July), Montreal (Parc Jean-Drapeau, 21 July), Toronto (Rogers Stadium, 23 July), Chicago (Soldier Field, 25 July), Hershey (Hersheypark Stadium, 28 July), Boston (Fenway Park, 31 July), Nashville (FirstBank Stadium, 3 August), Houston (Daikin Park, 6 August), Commerce City, Colorado (Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, 9 August), Inglewood (SoFi Stadium, 13 August), San Francisco (Golden Gate Park, 15 August) and Phoenix (Chase Field, 18 August).
- South America, 5 dates: São Paulo (The Town, 4 September), Buenos Aires (Estadio Huracán, 8 September), Santiago (Estadio Nacional, 12 September), Lima (Estadio Nacional, 14 September) and Bogotá (Vive Claro, 16 September).
The North American leg is the core of the run: 13 shows in 34 days, never more than four days apart. Two of them are in Canada, and Exclaim! noted that both Canadian stops feature the same opening pair. The South American leg keeps a similar pace, with five shows in 13 days.
Not every stop is a stadium in the strict sense. Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park are open-air park sites, and the São Paulo date is listed at The Town. The rest are large sports grounds, and Consequence pointed out that the list includes Major League Baseball parks such as Fenway Park and Citi Field. Nationals Park, Daikin Park and Chase Field are ballparks too, which makes five baseball grounds on one metal tour.
Who Opens Each Night
Eleven acts share the support slots across the 19 dates, and their placement follows a clear pattern. Bring Me The Horizon are the fixed point: they are direct support on all 13 North American dates.
Wembley gets its own bill. NME reported that Marilyn Manson, Lorna Shore and Hatebreed support the London opener, and that Manson and Hatebreed rejoin the tour in South America in September with local support. On the published lists, the pair appear on four of the five South American dates; São Paulo has no named support.
Behind Bring Me The Horizon in North America, eight acts rotate through 15 opening slots:
- Kublai Khan TX, 3 dates: Montreal, Toronto and Nashville.
- Loathe, 3 dates: Commerce City, Inglewood and San Francisco.
- Acid Bath, 2 dates: Washington, D.C. and Queens.
- Lorna Shore, 2 dates: Hershey and Boston, on top of Wembley.
- Motionless In White, 2 dates: San Francisco and Phoenix.
- Lamb of God, Polyphia and Vended, 1 date each: Chicago, Houston and Montreal respectively.
Montreal and San Francisco are the only North American nights with three acts before Slipknot. That spread matters to fans planning travel: the same headline set comes with a different undercard depending on the city, and most openers play only one or two stops.
How the Tickets Were Sold
The sale was built in stages. A teaser campaign came first. NME reported that posters with a red background and the band’s S logo appeared in Los Angeles, New York, Hershey, Houston, Mexico City, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Chicago, Santiago, Toronto and Ontario. NextMosh added that several stadiums joined in, posting the logo with variations of an “If you’re 555” message, among them Wembley, SoFi Stadium, Chase Field, Soldier Field, Rogers Stadium and Fenway Park.
On announcement day, 28 September, the band ran launch events at Wembley and SoFi Stadium from 5pm to 9pm local time. Fans there could buy tickets for that venue’s show ahead of every presale. The tour’s press release, carried in full by Blabbermouth, set the rules at Wembley: purchases through the Ticketmaster app or website from a QR code at the box office, no cash, digital tickets only and a maximum of eight per person. The first 500 buyers at each site were promised a free event poster, and both events were billed with a pop-up shop and a 30-foot flaming version of the band’s tribal S.
The online sale followed in three steps, according to NextMosh: the artist presale on Tuesday 29 September at 10am local time, a Knotfest presale at noon the same day, and the general on-sale on Friday 2 October at 10am local time through Ticketmaster. VIP packages are on offer too, with early entry, private Slipknot-themed lounges and items signed by the band among the perks listed in the release. The tour is produced by Live Nation.
One detail from the teaser stage stands out. Mexico City was on NME’s list of poster sightings, but it does not appear on the announced schedule. That leaves room for an addition, although nothing has been confirmed.
The Record Behind the Run
The tour arrives with new music already moving. In September Slipknot released “Arsenal”, their first new song in three years, with a video directed by M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan and starring Jackson White, NextMosh reported. NME noted it is also the band’s first release since the departure of Sid Wilson and since drummer Eloy Casagrande joined in 2024, replacing Jay Weinberg.
“Arsenal” is not the start of an album campaign in the usual sense. According to NME, guitarist Jim Root has described it as a standalone single, released while the band keep working on their next record. That album will be their first since The End, So Far in 2022, and the band have been recording with the producer Matt Wallace, whose credits include Faith No More, as ThePRP reported. ThePRP expects the tour to help launch it, though no title or release date has been announced.
The catalogue has also grown backwards this year. NME reported that the long-awaited “lost” album Look Outside Your Window came out for Record Store Day, and that the band had earlier teased a song called “Long May You Die”, recorded shortly after Casagrande joined. The tour promises new staging and a setlist drawn from across the whole catalogue, so the run will draw on records old and new, with the next album possibly arriving before the first stadium night.
How It Compares With Other Big Rock Runs
The most useful comparison this autumn is the opposite model. RockCharts recently covered how Life Burns Faster gives Metallica 24 nights at Sphere, a residency that keeps one band in one room and changes the songs instead of the city. Slipknot are doing the reverse: one night per city, 19 cities, and a fixed production that has to travel between continents.
The two models carry different risks. A residency sells many nights to a single market and to fans willing to travel to it, and it keeps the staging in place. A stadium run asks each city to fill one very large venue on one night, and it moves the stage every few days. The scheduling on the North American leg, with two to four days between shows, reflects that: the gaps leave time for the load-out, the move and the next build.
The support structure is the other lever. Putting Bring Me The Horizon on every North American date gives each stadium a second headline-sized name, while the rotating openers spread a wider range of heavy acts across the map. In London, the Manson, Lorna Shore and Hatebreed bill does the same job for the only European show.
What to Watch Before July
Three things will shape the run between now and the Wembley opener. The first is the album: if Wallace’s sessions produce a record before July, the career-spanning set will have a new chapter to fold in. The second is the schedule: the Mexico City posters and any extra demand could still produce added dates, though the announced list currently has 19.
The third is the undercard in South America. NME reported that Manson and Hatebreed will be joined there by local support, and those names have not been published yet. For UK fans, the arithmetic is simpler: Wembley on 3 July is the only date on this side of the Atlantic, which makes it the one show in the (sic)est Stadium Tour that every European fan who wants to go has to reach.
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