With whispers of a possible expansion of the UK’s famous Download Festival to Australia and talk of several new touring festivals set to debut in the new year, heavy music fans may have even more reason to celebrate with the possibility of Knotfest expanding to Australia.

Knotfest is of course Iowa metal legends Slipknot’s annual music festival, which has already set up shop in the nearby market of Japan. With the absence of Soundwave, it seems only right that Slipknot would be looking at Australia as the next target.

“I’m pretty positive we will [expand to Australia],” Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan told Music Feeds. “It’s a small thing, the world needs to know that [Knotfest is] a destination spot. We don’t want to just take it out on the road, we won’t want to make a proper tour of it right now.”

“Maybe a long time from now that might be something but right now it’s a destination spot.” Clown told MF that the band don’t wish to jump the gun and turn the destination festival into a touring event too quickly.

“We have a promoter over in Japan who wanted it, they really, really, really wanted Knotfest. So we spent a couple of years working on it. We went over there and did two shows and it was incredible so we came back.”

“It’s a lot of people involved – of course the band members want to go there, we know the fans want it to go there but it takes a promoter, it takes a facility, it takes the right weekend – it takes the right everything.”

“The good news is we’re on our third year, we’ve done a couple of Japan and things are rocking. Australia is another home to us, as is South America, as is Europe, so I imagine this trip to Australia will really determine whether we could get something like Knotfest down there.”

Slipknot are set to arrive Down Under next month with Lamb of God to play three arena shows in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne. The band’s last album was 2014’s .5: The Gray Chapter, which was released to critical acclaim.

Slipknot Australian Tour Dates

Friday, 28th October 2016
Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
Tickets: Live Nation

Saturday, 29th October 2016
Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney
Tickets: Live Nation

Monday, 31st October 2016
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Tickets: Live Nation

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