This October Slipknot guide their unholy army through the nine circles of hell on the All Hope is Gone 2008 world tour.

Their first tour of Australia since they stormed the main stages at the 2005 Big Day Out. 

At the turn of the millennium, Slipknot erupted onto the heavy music scene and their first three albums reset the course of the Metal genre. Multi million selling, three albums have been released, all platinum.

Their massive popularity was acknowledged when, after being nominated for the sixth time in The Grammys for Best Metal Performance, Slipknot won the coveted award in 2006 for the track Before I Forget. 

Now the metal masses unite in anticipation of Slipknot's fourth album All Hope Is Gone, due out though iconic label Roadrunner Records in August.

Early leaks have garnered rave reviews and Slipknot rightly proclaim that 'll Hope Is Gone will be their most malevolent effort yet.

At their left hand will be the mighty Machine Head, pioneers of a brutal new sound Machine Head's influential and ferocious debut Burn My Eyes was released in 1994. 

Several albums later Machine Head returned to the highest echelons of the metal world with the 2007 album The Blackening.

Now they bring their merciless metal to Slipknot's stages the world over.

Slipknot are performing at Riverstage, Brisbane on October 24, the Acer Arena, Sydney on October 26, the Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne on October 27, the Adelaide Showground on October 28 and the Robinson Pavillion, Perth on October 30.

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