SLIPKNOT SET TO PERFORM ON “LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN” FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25

FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/KRISTINE ASHTON/AMANDA CAGAN MSO (818 380 0400)
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JAMIE ROBERTS/MARIA GONZALES ROADRUNNER RECORDS (212 274 7500)

SLIPKNOT SET TO PERFORM ON
“LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN”
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25;

SELF-TITLED ROADRUNNER DEBUT CERTIFIED GOLD

Rock’s exploding SLIPKNOT will make their late-night television performance debut when they invade the New York City studios of Late Night With Conan O’Brien Friday, February 25 to perform their latest single, “Wait And Bleed.” The song is also set to be featured on the soundtrack for “Scream 3,” due out in late February on Wind-Up Records.

This news comes as the band’s self-titled Roadrunner debut has reached the gold-certified mark according to the R.I.A.A. in just 30 weeks. The album continues to rapidly move up Billboard’s “Top 200 Albums” chart, jumping to #111 this week (from 120). At the same time, the band’s gold-certified home video, WELCOME TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, is still embedded in the Top Five of Billboard’s “Music Videos” chart and will be certified platinum imminently.

Meanwhile, the Des Moines group are in the midst of a sold-out headlining North American club tour, which kicked off January 18 in Atlanta, GA and wraps up January 29 in Montreal, Quebec. Up next for SLIPKNOT: two months of overseas dates starting February 4 in Osaka, Japan and lasting through April 3 in Stockholm, Sweden. With an array of already sold-out dates, the trek will also bring the guys to Australia, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Once the tour concludes, SLIPKNOT will head back to the U.S. for another round of dates, which will be announced in the coming weeks.

These overseas dates will also include more shows in England, where SLIPKNOT‘s popularity is spreading so quickly that the band have won numerous awards and have been nominated in reader’s polls in a few of country’s top music magazines. To wit: SLIPKNOT are nominated for “Brightest Hope” for this year’s NME Premier Awards, they won for “Best New Band” and “Best Album” in Kerrang!, and they earned the titles of “Best New Band,” “Best Album,” “Best Drummer” (for #1/JOEY) and “Best Metal Hammer Cover Feature” in Metal Hammer.

One question on the lips of every SLIPKNOT fan: how do the band perform intense and extremely physical shows night after night under the hot lights in their masks and not have to constantly cancel shows due to heat exhaustion? AsSLIPKNOT #1 (drummer JOEY) recently explained in CMJ New Music Monthly: “Everyone passes out two or three times per tour. It never happens ’til the end of the show. People are like, ‘I don’t know how you do it with the mask on, let alone one-piece wool coveralls in 110 degree heat.’ But it’s the music that drives us, and we’ve built up a tolerance for it.”

Catch SLIPKNOT‘s insane live show in the following cities and check out their two websites (www.slipknot1.com and www.slipknot2.com) or Roadrunner Records’ website (www.roadrunnerrecords.com) for additional information.

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