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Slipknot To Perform At Bryce Jordan Center May 18

Heavy metal band Slipknot is coming to Happy Valley to perform at the Bryce Jordan Center on Wednesday, May 18. The show will begin at 6:30 p.m. that night.

Tickets for the group’s “Knotfest Roadshow” tour will be available for purchase online beginning at 10 a.m. on Friday, January 21. Student tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, January 19, starting at $25 apiece.

Slipknot is known for its energetic shows and aggressive, attention-getting music. The band rose to fame with its 1999 self-titled album followed by its 2001 record “Iowa.” Slipknot has been nominated for 10 Grammy awards, winning once in 2006 for “Best Metal Performance” with “Before I Forget.”

Hip-hop groups Cypress Hill and Ho99o9 will join Slipknot’s May performance as the opening acts.

Slipknot’s tour is one of several acts to announce stops at the BJC this week. Sesame Street Live! and WWE’s Road to Wrestlemania will both make stops at the arena in March.

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