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Slipknot – All Hope is Gone (Release Year – 2008)

  • August 25, 2008
  • by Rob Rockitt
  • · Entertainment · Hard Rock Music · Hard Rock News · Music

It has been 4 long years since Slipknot’s last studio album. “All Hope is Gone” is rumored to be (say it isn’t so!) their last album. Slipknot’s fan base has swelled to massive proportions over the years, and judging from the live show that I saw by them recently, this is a band that needs to continue.

“All Hope is Gone” pushes Slipknot further away from the Nu metal genre, and more towards the heavy and thrash metal side. This album is extremely heavy.  With that being said, most hard rock fans may dislike this, but metal heads will rejoice when they play this.

There are moments where this album is heavy as hell, and there are a couple of songs that seem to fall closer to Corey Taylor’s other band Stone Sour. In fact, the song “Snuff” is an acoustic based song, that is probably the least heavy song Slipknot has ever done. This tune seems to fall much closer to Stone Sour than anything Slipknot has done. I like this tune a lot, but the maggots (Slipknot fans) are going to flip out when they hear this.

One listen to “Sulfer” and I thought wow to myself.  What an incredible feast of metal this is. “Psychosocial” might be one of the coolest Slipknot tunes ever. The awesome groove on this tune had me hooked immediately.

Is it just me or do I hear “Metallica’s Enter Sandman” creeping its way into “Dead Memories”? This song sounds like a blend of Metallica and Tool.  This song is more of a mainstream metal tune.  Some songs on this disc such as “Gehenna”, “Dead Memories”, “Snuff” and “All Hope Is Gone” will get a ton of radio air play.  The rest may be far too heavy for terrestrial radio formats.

Is “All Hope is Gone” Slipknot’s best work?  While it has some great moments, I don’t think this disc stands up to their album Iowa.  While Iowa is still my favorite, I think Slipknot fans will like this.  The band hasn’t put out an album this brutal since their 1999 debut.

The sound on All Hope is Gone falls some where in between Iowa and Vol. 3.  There are things missing on All Hope is Gone that disappoints me.  The cool percussion and drums of Chris Fehn and Shawn Crahan are back on the song “Psychosocial”, but seem to be missing elsewhere.  I didn’t hear a lot of samples or use of the turntables on this record either.  There are a lot more guitar solos on this record than on past releases which is a nice addition.  As a whole, this is Slipknot’s sound moving in a slightly new direction.  “All Hope is Gone” is another solid effort and  is worth picking up.

For more information on Slipknot, check out their myspace page.

Rating:Out of 10

Psychosocial

Track Listing:

  1. .execute.
  2. Gematria
  3. Sulfur
  4. Psychosocial
  5. Dead Memories
  6. Vendetta
  7. Butcher’s Hook
  8. Gehenna
  9. This Cold Black
  10. Wherein Lies Continue
  11. Snuff
  12. All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot is:

Sid Wilson – Turntables
Joey Jordison – Drums
Paul Gray – Bass
Chris Fehn – Percussion
Jim Root – Guitars
Craig “133” Jones – Keyboards/samples
Shawn “Clown” Crahan – Percussion
Mick Thomson – Guitars
Corey Taylor – Vocals

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  1. guitar freak January 11, 2010 · Reply

    i love this album i’s the best album from slipknot

  2. douglinhas March 27, 2009 · Reply

    yeah
    slipknot love!!!

  3. Tyler March 6, 2009 · Reply

    I’m more a fan of Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses), but All Hope is Gone is a good CD if you ask me. They got there heavy songs like Psychosocial, but then they got there softer songs like Dead Memories. I’m really happy with the CD, and I hope there is more Slipknot on the way. Oh, and something that made me frustrated was that my friend got a Slipknot shirt, but NOWHERE on the shirt is Paul Grey. Thats kinda weird, leaving one of the band members out.

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