Slipknot This article is more than 9 years oldSlipknot's music festival will have an official aroma of burning camel dung
This article is more than 9 years oldAccording to a press release, the ensuing memory-triggering aroma at Knotfest ‘will infest your brain, body and clothes for days after the festival is over’
According to Slipknot, their forthcoming music festival is to have an official smell: camel dung. Danzig, Anthrax and Five Finger Death Punch are among the acts who will perform on stage in California, amid wafting clouds of undulated burnt faeces.
To achieve this effect, Slipknot have ordered their “captains” to bring three days’ worth of dung to San Bernardino, California, the site of their second Knotfest. The ordure will be placed in oil drums, percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan told Rolling Stone, and heated over charcoal “[as if] we’re doing ribs”. According to a press release, the ensuing aroma “will infest your brain, body and clothes for days after the festival is over”.
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Allow and continueThe olfactory undertaking was inspired by Crahan’s strong affinity for smells such as freshly mown grass. “[The way grass] smells when a nice spring rain hits,” he said. “It brings me home.” They tried out the camel-shit concept at Knotfest 2012, where the same fragrance permeated the Slipknot museum tent. “[Fans] came into the museum and they [were] hit with [it],” he called. “A very distinct smell ... And it’s not necessarily the most comfortable thing, but its not necessarily the worst thing, it’s just remembering thoughts — it’s gonna be a reoccurring thing.”
Crahan hopes that the smell of burning camel dung will become the signature smell of Slipknot’s “culture”, reassuring their fans. “You [will] be somewhere in the world, maybe be in a little pain, and then all of a sudden smell [camel shit] and feel good again,” he said. And if the extreme fragrance doesn’t satisfy Knotfest attendees, hopefully the rest of the entertainment will: Slipknot headline two of the festival’s three nights, with 59 more bands, five stages, a motorcross race, zip-line, tattoo parlour, drum circles, goat petting zoo and “23-foot fuckin’ flames”.
Knotfest runs, pungently, from 24 to 26 October at San Bernardino’s San Manuel Amphitheater. Tickets are on sale now.
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