Slipknot unveil whiskey partnership with Iowa-based distillery

Slipknot have been busy preparing their upcoming album and teasing us with mysterious posters at festivals.

Now the band have a new project—their very own whiskey.

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Slipknot unveiled that they’re releasing their very own craft beverage, No. 9 Iowa Whiskey. It will be available Aug. 10 in select retails and at the band’s Knotfest Roadshow North American tour this summer.

The whiskey can also be bought at select markets across North America before Aug. 10. The band announced the product via social media with a cool video that you can watch via Twitter down below.

A 90 proof bottle will cost $39.99 and a 99 proof will be $69.99. The whiskey is a collab with Iowa-based Cedar Ridge Distillery.

Slipknot and Cedar Ridge Distillery—two groups of people born and raised in Iowa and committed to quality and hard work,”  M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan said of the partnership. “We collaborated on No. 9 Whiskey, which in addition to Iowa corn, gets some extra spice from its rye content. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Live life, and always be safe.”

Also, the owner and founder of the distillery Jeff Quint gushed about working with the band.

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“As we came to know the Slipknot guys, we realized we share a lot of the core elements of a good Iowa foundation—these guys are very down to earth, hard working and care deeply about their followers,” Quint says. “Building this whiskey with them was an easy, natural process that resulted in a strong and spicy expression, just the way they wanted it.”

Also, the band are gearing up to drop their album WE ARE NOT YOUR KIND. The record is slated to be released Aug. 9 via Roadrunner Records. It’s available for preorder here.

Check out the album’s full tracklist below.

Tracklist:

  1. “Insert Coin”
  2. “Unsainted”
  3. “Birth Of The Cruel”
  4. “Death Because Of Death”
  5. “Nero Forte”
  6. “Critical Darling”
  7. “Liar’s Funeral”
  8. “Red Flag”
  9. “What’s Next”
  10. “Spiders”
  11. “Orphan”
  12. “My Pain”
  13. “Not Long For This World”
  14. “Solway Firth”

Additionally, you can listen to “Unsainted” below.

Tickets for the Knotfest Roadshow are on sale here. You can check out the full list of tour dates below.

07/26 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
07/27 – San Bernardino, CA @ San Manuel Amphitheater
08/01 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre
08/03 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater
08/04 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion
08/06 – Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
08/08 – Lincoln, NE @ Pinnacle Bank Arena
08/10 – Des Moines, IA @ Iowa State Fairgrounds*
08/11 – Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
08/12 – Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
08/14 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
08/16 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
08/17 – Bonner Springs, KS @ Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
08/18 – Maryland Heights, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
08/20 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage

08/21 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
08/23 – Burgettstown, PA @ KeyBank Pavilion
08/24 – Scranton, PA @ The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
08/25 – Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater
08/27 – Mansfield, MA @ The Xfinity Center
08/28 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
08/30 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
08/31 – Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion
09/01 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
09/03 – Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
09/04 – Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
09/06 – Austin, TX @ Austin360 Amphitheater at Circuit of The Americas
09/07 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion
09/08 – The Woodlands, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman
*Iowa State Fair – Slipknot and Gojira only

Other Slipknot news

As previously stated, the band have been teasing us. Slipknot unveiled a mysterious poster at this year’s Download Festival that might insinuate they’re planning a tour next year.

In the area where bands post upcoming tours and albums at the festival, a single black rectangle was posted with the Slipknot logo and the words “Live. 2020.”

Many people believe that it means the band are planning another tour next year. 

It’s unclear exactly what the poster means, so we’ll just have to pay attention and see what happens in the future with the band.

Read more: Slipknot setlist for first full show of 2019 revealed at Rockfest

Last week, the band made their return playing their first full set of 2019 last night at Rockfest in Hyvinkää, Finland.

We got a sneak peek of the band playing their new song “Unsainted” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last month, but this is the first proper show from the band in quite a while.

The band played an impressive career-spanning setlist which you can check out below.

Slipknot setlist:

“People = Shit”
“(sic)”
“Unsainted”
“Disasterpiece”
“Get This”
“Before I Forget”
“The Heretic Anthem”
“Psychosocial”
“The Devil in I”
“The Negative One”
“Prosthetics”
“Vermilion”
“Custer”
“Sulfur”
“All Out Life”
“Duality”

Encore:

“Spit It Out”
“Surfacing”

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