Live music review: Slipknot

3Arena, Dublin

Slipknot introduced a note of pantomime hysteria to heavy metal through the late 90s, with their latex-masks and lyrics that, even by the standards of the genre, came off as gushingly overcooked. Time has not dialed down their ridiculousness.

At their first Irish show in over a decade, the group — enshrouded in their trademark headgear — were accompanied by spumes of flame and performed against a creepy circus backdrop, like something out of a camp horror movie.