Nathan Rabin recently published a review on GQ.com of Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare event that took place on October 3rd .

This night of the event also served as the kick off for Insane Clown Posse‘s nationwide “The Marvelous Missing Link” tour.

This article features photos that were shot by Faygoluvers photographer Jordan Kinnear.

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But before I could think too hard about things the haunted house probably did not want me thinking about, the haunted house was over, and the concert part of the evening began. Behind the performers was a giant rendering of the hideous Marvelous Missing Link, the title character from the duo’s last two albums, and Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, accompanied by sinister clown hype-men in clown suits festooned with the group’s Hatchet Man logo, proceeded to instantly transform a sluggish show in a grim industrial venue (a sign in the space bragged that we were currently in “DuPage County’s Largest Sports & Expo center,” and boy did it ever feel like DuPage County’s Largest Sports & Expo center) into a roaring spectacle.

The venue was only half full, but even that ended up working in Insane Clown Posse’s favor. The sparsely populated high school gym-style bleachers cleared out almost completely as the entire crowd surged to the front of the stage both so that they could get the best possible view—and be sprayed with Faygo, the off-brand soda that is central to the group’s mythology and is officially, unofficially, the official beverage of discriminating Juggalos everywhere. Insane Clown Posse shows resemble old-time vaudeville or live variety shows more than typical concerts, and they even have commercials in the form of regular “Faygo breaks” where clown hype men spray the audience with Faygo while a demented Faygo jingle from somewhere in the gothic past plays.

At any Insane Clown Posse event, damn near every song is a sing-along, although at the Great American Nightmare show, the energy level was so high that the songs became more like shout-alongs.

In recordings, songs from Insane Clown Posse’s almost perversely positive, cheerful, and childlike new album The Marvelous Missing Link: Found (an album so sincere in its earnest endorsement of faith that it feels almost like Christian rap at times) like “Juggalo Party,” “Get Clowned,” and “I Fucked a Cop” sound a little like tepid rehashes of previous anthems with suspiciously similar titles. (Not surprisingly, the words “Clown” and “Juggalo” reappear over and over again in Insane Clown Posse song titles.) Onstage, however, these new songs roared to life and fit in perfectly with chestnuts from the Insane Clown Posse back catalogue. Insane Clown Posse’s music is built for live performance, not bedroom headphone listening. It’s about profane, foul-mouthed celebration, not subtlety or sophistication. Like Zombie, they’re showmen above all else.

Insane Clown Posse ended the show with “Bang! Pow! Boom!,” a rousing fixture of their live performances (at the Gathering they often made the chorus gloriously literal by pairing it with a fireworks display) that finds delirious joy in the prospect of total oblivion. Then the crowd, ecstatic to have been a part of this simpatico semi-collaboration between oddly ingratiating icons of tongue-in-cheek spookery, left, leaving the floors of DuPage County’s largest Sports & Expo center behind them covered in a soupy, sticky combination of confetti, empty bottles, and dried Faygo

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