Avenged Sevenfold, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Chris Jericho and others have all gotten into the NFT game recently to give fans exclusive access to content. On Tuesday, The Sandbox announced it has partnered with Slipknot to bring Knotfest to the metaverse, creating Knotverse, a Web3 home for Slipknot/Knotfest experiences, concerts and lifestyle. Knotverse is thematically tied to Slipknot’s self-curated festival brand and media site, Knotfest. “When I started playing Quake online in 1999 and Minecraft in 2011, it was another level”, said Slipknot’s M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan. “But at the time, I couldn’t have Sid scratching next to me, I couldn’t offer visual art to fans. All we could do together was play the game. But little ideas like that are not only possible now, they barely scratch the surface. We are listening, we are watching, and we are going where our fans are leading us. And if you don’t understand or you’re worried, know that we’re going to help bring our fans along. We are getting in this for all of us, with all of us, and we can’t wait for you to see what we have coming up.”
The Knotverse is set to include “…unique NFTs and generative collections, plus metaverse concerts, gaming experiences, fan experiences, unique collaborations, wearables and much more. It will ultimately offer fans of the heavy culture utility through unique access to new music, IRL events, festival experiences, merchandise, gear, masks, and more,” reads www.knotverse.io/.
Avenged Sevenfold singer M. Shadows previously told Forbes that bands should look beyond the potential profits of releasing an NFT collection and consider them “virtual handshakes” with members of their audience. “Everyone is obsessed with making money and seeking alpha, which does a disservice to what [NFTs] can actually do,” he said. “We have been instructing many bands that NFTs are a ticket for access to an exclusive club.”
“It’s not the wave of the future, it’s the wave of now,” Chris Jericho told BitBoy Crypto. “And there’s still a lot of people that are — it’s funny when you read the comments online. ‘This is the biggest scam! It doesn’t make any sense!’ and ‘It’s so stupid!’ Like, there’s two types of people in the world now. There’s people who understand what NFTs are, and there’s people that don’t get it. And as we move forward, not just on a yearly basis, on a monthly basis, more and more people are understanding what the NFT is and more and more people are getting involved. When I first started podcasting, it was the same thing. People really didn’t understand what a podcast was, including myself. And then I realized, ‘Okay, this is going to start replacing radio. It’s definitely replacing almost print magazines and newspapers, and other places you used to read an interview. That’s almost going by the wayside.’ So it’s almost the same with NFTs.”
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