Ten-year-old Zoë Franziska has led a brutal cowl of Slipknot’s ‘The Heretic Anthem’ with the remainder of the band made up of youngsters aged between 7 and seventeen.
“WARNING: Zoë is so intense that your display screen would possibly catch on fireplace,” reads the video’s description. “You may need nightmares when you look into her eyes and also you would possibly start to suppose that Corey Taylor wants a vocal coach. A vocal coach named Zoë Franziska.”
The efficiency additionally features a model new guitar solo, written by 12-year-old guitarist Xander Markewich.
Slipknot initially launched ‘The Heretic Anthem’ as a part of their 2001 breakthrough album ‘Iowa’ and you’ll try the Franziska-fronted cowl beneath.
Earlier this yr, Franziska went viral together with her tackle Korn’s ‘Freak On A Leash’.
The efficiency was organised by the O’Keefe Music Basis, a non-profit organisation working in direction of offering devices, music classes and recording alternatives to younger musicians around the globe. “Why? As a result of artwork offers voice to our desires and dwell music efficiency is turning into a dying artwork.” You may make a donation right here.
In the meantime, Slipknot are set to return to the UK subsequent yr, as a part of Obtain Pageant 2023. They’ll be joined by fellow headliners Convey Me The Horizon whereas Metallica might be performing two fully completely different headline units, over two nights.
Chatting with NME about Slipknot’s return to Obtain, organiser Andy Copping stated: “They’d labored their approach up the invoice and in 2009, I took the plunge and gave them their first pageant headline slot anyplace on the planet. Now, they’re seen as a headliner wherever they go. They’ve stayed very near the pageant ever since. The followers love them, the band loves Obtain and having them again for the twentieth anniversary, off the again of one other Quantity One album, it’s simply completely timed.”
Copping continued: “One of many issues Obtain has above most music festivals is that neighborhood spirit. Everyone is a large music lover.”