MANSFIELD — Slipknot was playing its only planned show in the United States on Saturday night.
Canton native Marilyn Manson was back home in Ohio.
A crowd of around 30,000 fans welcomed them with a roar as the final two acts of the evening.
It was a wild and rainy night on Saturday at the 2025 Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival on the grounds of the former Ohio State Reformatory.
Slipknot was back in the American midwest. The heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995.
Manson is the stage name of Brian Hugh Warner, an American singer, actor, artist and poet.
He knew he was back in the Buckeye State.
“OHIO!… the state that birthed me,” he yelled. He also yelled “MANSFIELD!” several times, much to the delight of a sold-out crowd that survived a rain-filled set from Slaughter to Prevail.
Manson ended his set with “Beautiful People,” a 1999 banger that rocked the crowd.
(Below are photos from Saturday at the 2025 Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival at the former Ohio State Reformatory. Images were taken by Nathan Zucker, Steve Thrasher and Lexie Alley.)
Slipknot
Marilyn Manson
Saturday at Inkcarceration
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