Relato de um espectaculo na Nova Zelandia.

Trusts Stadium, Auckland 22 Outubro




If you like the singer of your favourite metal band to be a little schizophrenic, Corey Taylor is the man for you.

One minute the front man for masked metallers Slipknot is thanking the crowd at Waitakere's Trusts Stadium in Auckland for waiting three years for the band to return to New Zealand.

The next, he's criticising them for not applauding loud enough, telling them to suck a certain part of his anatomy and hollering like a butcher who's just cut off his thumb.

His unpredictable, passive-aggressive nature is the focal point of Slipknot's live show - which seems to be based on a a bizarre mix of pure metal, high school pantomime and the Nightmare on Elm Street movie series.

With each of the band's nine members never being seen without their specially-tailored horror masks, Taylor isn't the most menacing member of Slipknot.

That honour goes to Shawn Crahan, also known as 'The Clown'.

He stalks the stage with a permanently pissed demeanour, scowling at the audience and taking his anger out on a rising percussion kit on the right-hand side of the stage.

During a particularly violent version of Duality, The Clown appeared pleased to play his part in the song by violating an empty keg with a baseball bat.

Let's hope he's kept caged between the band's shows.

With all that going on, it's easy to forget that Slipknot actually play music. Over the course of four albums and 13 years, they've proved there is actually substance behind those novelty masks.

Despite opening with raggedy versions of Surfacing and The Blister Exists, Slipknot launched into full gear with a rousing version of Guitar Hero favourite Before I Forget that had most of the venue joining in with fake axe attacks.

They continued with slogan-chanting anthems like People=Shit and The Heretic Anthem, songs that sound much better live when the chorus is being sung back at them by a moshpit comprised of sweaty, black-clad fans - affectionately known as "maggots".

Then there was the rarely-played Prosthetics from the band's first self-titled 1999 album, which became a head-banging highlight thanks to its dark metal groove.

Yep, it was a fan-friendly set that - despite releasing their really-rather-good fourth album All Hope Is Gone just a month or so ago - was comprised mostly of songs from older albums.

One of just two new songs they played was called Psychosocial, and when Taylor told the crowd to go "psycho" for it, you just knew he'd join in with them.


Fonte: www.stuff.co.nz