KNOTFEST CHILE, 2024

On this occasion, we will be informing you a little about what happened at the knofest in Chile which took place in the back of the National Stadium which the entrance was located in what was the stadium but you had to go through the entire stadium until you could arrive at the site where the KNOTFEST CHILE was taking place.
Once you entered you could already feel the festival with a North American-style sign so you could take photos with giant letters saying “knofest”, you could see the museum, a fair, food stalls, and a hydration area.

There were two tickets, one for general and one for VIP, which entry was at 12 and the first band to open such a festival was “nico birdie” a YouTuber who performs covers of bands translated into Spanish and also made his songs, later it was the turn of “SVVVTN”, a contest-winning band which had a great staging which looked very solid and finally as a national band, the time would come for “Mawiza”, a band that sings in Mapuzungún, which is their origin. Mapuches have a long history in Chile and know a lot about what these festivals are, so they moved on stage as they already knew how to do.

The first foreign band arrived and played for the first time on Chilean soil, which would be “POPPY” They have a robotic presentation in which a man is heard talking to Moriah Rose Pereira and at that moment the band begins to appear, Moriah moves around the stage with a skirt and her beauty plus her voice showing what she is capable of with a set going through all her hits with a total of 12 songs.

SETLIST:
BLOODMONEY, V.A.N (Bad Omens cover), Sit/Stay, I Disagree, Bite Your Teeth, crystallized, Lessen the Damage, Scary Mask, X, Anything Like Me, new way out, Concrete

As soon as Poppy’s show ended, “BABY METAL” arrived from Japan, which had done a sideshow the day before, completely sold out, and you could see many kids with their parents on their shoulders and trying to be as close as possible. You could see a lot of pots. and people jumping and enjoying every detail of the show, compared to the show that was given in Argentina, where they played one more song which was “BXCXM” and you could also see the difference in the fire that was handled on stage since it was much higher .

SETLIST:
BABYMETAL DEATH, Distortion, PA PA YA!!, BxMxC, METALI!! (preceded by KAMI Band solos), Megitsune, KARATE, RATATATA (BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy cover), Gimme Chocolate!!, Road of Resistance

Once the show was over, after 5 minutes, the totems of “Amon Amarth” and his entire high-caliber show began to inflate, which interacted a lot with the people and even made everyone in the VIP row. Taking his horn every time he could and thanking the Chilean public, the sound was impeccable, the setlist was excellent and this was.

SETLIST:
The Pursuit of Vikings, Deceiver of the Gods, Heidrun, Put Your Back Into the Oar, First Kill, Shield Wall, Guardians of Asgaard, Raise Your Horns, Crack the Sky, Twilight of the Thunder God

The most anticipated moment of all time arrived when the band that had been waiting for more than 20 years arrived and “MUDVAYNE” came to demonstrate what a band with a great career is, Chad was super grateful to the public and to Slipknot for giving him that space. There were many problems with the voice because at times it went too low or too high, Ryan’s bass also had problems but they never stopped giving their all on stage. One of the many moments that Chad started talking was the following.
“No matter what problems you have, your life is worth more, much more and this day is for you so that you never forget it” “We love them and we want them to leave the damn problems behind” “Thank you today is the celebration of one of the best fucking bands it’s the celebration of some friends we celebrate fucking heavy metal they feel it yeah” At all times you could see circles and a lot of dirt was raised and sometimes you couldn’t see the stage well.

SETLIST:
Not Falling, Silenced, Internal Primates Forever, Fall Into Sleep,Under My Skin, -1, Severed, Death Blooms, Fish Out of Water, Dull Boy, A New Game, Determined, Nothing to Gein, World So Cold, Happy?, Dig

Without rest, as soon as “Mudvayne” ends, I start “DISTURBED” With the sun already going down after a whole day hitting all the spectators, David came out with a Matrix-style cover-up and sang the first verses of “Hey You” on the screens behind The drums gave another show since you could see images that fit each song, there were guitar and drum solos that were left out,
making some songs not included. There came a moment when everything went black and candles were placed on the
screen, which began to play “The Sound of Silence” and a piano and some bass drums appeared, making the song much purer.

SETLIST:
Hey You, Stupify, Ten Thousand Fists, Prayer, Bad Man, Guitar Solo, Land of Confusion(Genesis cover), The Vengeful One, Drum Solo, The Game, The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel cover), Indestructible, The Light, Unstoppable, Down With the Sickness, Inside the Fire.

” SLIPKNOT ” The kings of the night were about to take the stage. The light went out at the end and the audience began to move to the main stage which they could not move anywhere, the lights came on and Sid came out doing what I do best with the console to start the celebration show Of these 25 years of the anonymous one that was played almost in its entirety since they did not play “Diluted” but all the others were played in their entirety but not in their order, on this occasion it did not happen that Corey spoke much with the public but with his Spanish highlighted from the first moment that these shows were to be able to relive
the year 1999, people at one point began to sing happy birthday not for Mick’s birthday but for the album’s birthday, sparklers could be seen in the circles and What I saw would be about 4 or 5 flares throughout the show, something that can be recurring in Chile. To end the show, as always, they are playing “Scissors” and it makes everything dark before finishing
Tortilla grabbed a flag from the audience and opened it behind Eloy before hitting the bong behind him and thus being able to give the end of the show. this festival and you could hear how Corey throws the microphone and the lights go out
completely to finish everything.

SETLIST:
(sic) Eyeless, Wait and Bleed, Get This, Eeyore, Tattered & Torn (Sid Wilson Remix), Me Inside, Liberate, Frail Limb Nursery, Purity, Prosthetics, No Life, Only One

Encore:
Mudslide, Spit It Out, Surfacing, Scissors

Photos by 𝕾𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖆𝖓 𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖔𝖓

Review by Pablo Reinante