Update – As of 11 June 2020
To all Singapore Rockfest II: Slipknot + Trivium ticket holders:
The new date of Singapore Rockfest III: Slipknot + Trivium has been announced and will be happening on 13 Jan 2021.
Second round of refund period will start from 11 June till 21 June 2020.
Patrons may do so by emailing Sistic team at – feedback@sistic.com.sg by stating: Refund Me – Slipknot
Update – As of 23 March 2020
To all Singapore Rockfest II: Slipknot + Trivium ticket holders:
Thank you for your patience. Today, we could have been anticipating a big rock show for tomorrow. As much as we want to see both Slipknot and Trivium perform, this is the best for everyone’s safety. So fret not! As announced previously, the show has been rescheduled to a new date. We will announce the new date soon once all show details are finalized so please hang on to your tickets and keep them safe! All current tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled show.
Meanwhile, existing ticket holders who wish to receive a refund can do so by requesting via SISTIC starting tomorrow 24th March, 2020 until 07 April, 2020, 11:59pm SGT. Please contact SISTIC via hotline at +65 6348 5555 or email at feedback@sistic.com.sg for further assistance on this.
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LAMC Productions regret to announce that Singapore Rockfest II: Slipknot and Trivium scheduled to take place on March 24, 2020 (Tuesday) has been postponed.
Statements from Slipknot and Trivium:
“In light of global health concerns, Slipknot have decided to postpone their upcoming Asian tour, including Knotfest Japan. While decisions like this are not easy, the safety and well-being of the band’s fans always comes first. Furthermore, in this case, the bands and artists, crew and local employees are also equally affected, and as such, this was the only responsible decision that could be made. Slipknot and Knotfest will both return to Asia very soon, and at such time that everyone can be ensured of the best experience possible.” – SLIPKNOT
“Due to circumstances outside of our control we have been forced to postpone all of our tour dates in March in Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. We also will not be making a scheduled press stop in Germany at this time. We hope to reschedule these dates very soon. Thanks, and stay safe out there.” – TRIVIUM
All existing tickets purchased through SISTIC will remain valid for the Singapore rescheduled date so please hang on to your tickets. We are working with Slipknot & Trivium and their management on a new Singapore show date and aim to announce this very soon. We thank all fans for their patience and understanding.
As part of their ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ Tour, Slipknot will be back to Singapore as one of the stops on their Asia dates.
LAMC Productions has been eagerly waiting for Slipknot’s heavily anticipated return to Singapore since their last concert here on 16 August 2005 at the Fort Canning Park. Relating to the same anticipation and longing of Slipknot’s fans, LAMC Productions’ co-founder Lauretta Alabons shared “We have been patiently waiting and hoping to bring Slipknot back to Singapore. The band has grown immensely into one of the biggest metal bands in the world; and we are excited to bring them on the release of their No.1 Album We Are Not Your Kind.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
One of the most popular bands in the nu-metal explosion of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Slipknot were formed in late 1995 in Des Moines, Iowa; after some early personnel shifts, the nine-piece lineup settled around.
Slipknot’s blueprint for nu-metal success was set with their theatrical, attention-grabbing image – the band would always perform in identical industrial jumpsuits and homemade Halloween masks, and their mysterious anonymity by adopting the numbers zero through eight as stage aliases. Add to that a lyrical preoccupation with darkness and nihilism, and a name for their fans (“Maggots”). Emerging in 1995, the Grammy Award-winning issued their eponymous debut album in 1999 and went mainstream with subsequent gold and platinum efforts like Iowa (2001), All Hope Is Gone (2008), and We Are Not Your Kind (2019).
“With their latest studio album, Slipknot have released one of the strongest albums in their career,” – Consequence of Sound
“The ‘Knot’s sixth album is an astonishing record.” – UK’s NME
The widely anticipated sixth LP, WE ARE NOT YOUR KIND is already available for streaming on all platforms. The LP is highlighted by early album tracks “Birth Of The Cruel,” “Solway Firth,” and the LP’s lead single “Unsainted.” Each has come with an M. Shawn Crahan directed official music video, and each has trended worldwide on YouTube (all videos, not just music) – “Unsainted” at #1 worldwide for a full 24 hours. All told, the band has amassed over 52 million views in only two months. SLIPKNOT shook the world once again with the worldwide live debuts of “Unsainted” and their 2018 single “All Out Life” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! – both of which have become the show’s most viewed music performances of 2019 on YouTube. “Solway Firth” is also joined by a Crahan directed official music video, featuring exclusive footage from the new Amazon Original series, “The Boys,” alongside live performance footage from SLIPKNOT’s recent headline festival run in Europe.
“Iowa’s greatest musical export has only improved on its genre-busting sound.” – Billboard
“The sheer ambition of WE ARE NOT YOUR KIND is just as staggering as their seminal record Iowa –the dynamic might be even better,” – The Independent
Slipknot is a genuine sonic phenomenon, a nine-piece force of nature and one of heavy
music’s most important, recognizable, uncompromising and creatively ingenious bands.
The metal heavyweights’ visually arresting, incendiary and spectacular shows have
become the stuff of legend, and this performance will surely not disappoint!
Lacuna Coil are shifting the paradigm yet again with their new album, Black Anima. Just as Comalies (2002), Shallow Life (2009), and chart-smashing Delirium (2016) upped the ante and rocketed the Milan-based outfit into the upper echelons of metaldom, Black Anima is a level beyond all that.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Formed in 1994, Lacuna Coil quickly became one of Century Media’s biggest selling bands. From Comalies (2002) and Karmacode (2004) to Shallow Life (2009) and Broken Crown Halo (2014), the high-flying Italian act demonstrated an uncanny ability to pull in rock, gothic, and metal audiences. The band’s spirited and lauded live performances have also earned them a solid reputation for a band that not only delivers night in/night out, but also a band whose stage performance reverberates long after the show is over. Indeed, Lacuna Coil’s heartfelt, heavy, melodic, and rhythmic metal—a hybrid of gothic, groove, and alternative—has created a rabid worldwide following. Whether it’s “Our Truth” and “Delirium” or “Nothing Stands in Our Way” and “Trip the Darkness,” Lacuna Coil’s dual-vocalist assault is immediately identifiable. New album, Black Anima, continues the Italian’s reign atop the metal stack.
“We’ve been very busy,” says Lacuna Coil vocalist Cristina Scabbia. “We’ve played a lot of live shows between Delirium and Black Anima. We published our book, a chronicle of the Lacuna Coil story. And we crossed paths with our 20th Anniversary, which resulted in a quick switch from the Delirium album cycle to the 20th Anniversary one. We had a big change in our look. Our show changed a lot. We had special effects and artists performing on stage with us. That became The 119 Show, actually.”
‘If the night proved to be a four star gig overall, Lacuna Coil proved to be a five star act on the night, letting nothing stand in their way in reuniting with friends in a connection that can never be broken.’ – metalwani.com on Black Anima Tour 2019 at The Academy, Dublin
Written together with longtime Lacuna Coil band producer (and bassist) Marco Coti-Zelati over the course of the last few years, Black Anima, is the culmination of many inputs. From images and words to soundtracks and movies, Coti-Zelati hunts for and creates new expressions of heavy. For Black Anima, the enterprising song-smith came up with 15 songs in total, of which 11 made it to the album. He dug deep into Lacuna Coil’s historical repertoire, looking for heavier and darker, melodic and melancholic. Songs like “Veneficium,” “Apocalypse,” and “Layers of Time” are modern takes on debut album, In a Reverie (1999), while others show Lacuna Coil venturing into slower, more experimental territory. Of course, what Lacuna Coil album is without its keystone pieces, songs that unite all, songs that are geared for upward and outward momentum; the catchy stuff, really. Black Anima is that album, diverse, energetic, and luxuriant.
‘Here we have one of the best albums Lacuna Coil produced so far. And a savage, bucking ride they got us this time. One that we truly enjoyed.’ – rockmusicraider.com
Lyrically, Lacuna Coil’s principals opted for self-reflection on Black Anima. Often, the lyrics are tied to personal things the band are going through. As a group of musicians into their 20th year, the sheer number of possibilities could be overwhelming, but they needed to fit Lacuna Coil’s lyrical parameters.
“The lyrics touch on the personal side of the members of the band,” says vocalist Andrea Ferro. “We touch upon feelings and reflections, the passage of life. People who are no longer with us, for example. All of us experience this, actually. Whether it’s a loved one, companion, or animal, there’s no escaping it. We thought it was important to talk about that… As for the title, Black Anima, I like to put together words. Like Comalies and Karmacode, for example. Black Anima was the same thing, really. The two words tie together perfectly to define the concept, Anima is soul in Italian and the feeling throughout the record is dark, black so it was easy to pair the words together. “
The past few years have been marked, in various ways and in different degrees, by loss for the band, giving rise to the concept of souls (Anima). Whilst the songs on Black Anima go beyond this concept and explore different themes, the overall idea is brought together with custom made tarot cards by the Detroit artist, Micah Ulrich. Each card is tied to a song on the album and reflects the lyrics and the meaning of the song. Andrea explains “in the traditional sense, tarot cards are consulted to find oneself, to find meaning in one’s life and to find hope in the future. We wanted to take this idea of searching and apply it to our lost Animas, our lost souls. Our cards are designed and invested with the properties of searching and finding lost Black Animas.”
‘It’s a masterful combination of dark beauty and aggression, and still no-one does that better than Lacuna Coil.’ – Kerrang!
Lacuna Coil’s next steps are to promote Black Anima with every ounce of their beings. The spell-binding album is ready to sate diehard fans and mine new ones. Indeed, that’s exactly what Lacuna Coil are planning on.
“We hope Black Anima becomes part of their lives,” says Scabbia. “Their legacies. That they’ll remember it as being an important part of their existence. Friends of ours say that every album of ours is like a movie. So, this movie is about maturity in our lives, facing some hard points in life. We also have a lot of energy. We are able to give Lacuna Coil new life with this new album. We always have new ideas. We are always able to create new atmospheres. That we can create something fresh after all these years is personally reassuring. But we want fans to be surprised. We can’t wait to hear what they have to say!”
