Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone Release Information

Special Edition includes bonus tracks and a DVD featuring the making of All Hope Is Gone. After over 5 million albums sold in the US, Slipknot returns with their most powerful statement yet - All Hope Is Gone.

Filled with the fury people have come to expect from Slipknot as well as some extraordinary surprises, this album is the culmination of the band' s 9 unique members, three platinum albums and their 10 year journey at the top of the Hard Rock genre. Kicked off by the powerful crescendo that is Execute and Gematria (The Killing Name) and ending with the blistering track All Hope Is Gone - the album is a cohesive statement about the world today and truly cements the band as one of Rock' s heavyweights.

The lead single Psychosocial will propel the new album to match and exceed the success of the last album, Vol 3: Subliminal Verses which produced numerous Top 20 songs at Rock radio including a Top 5 track at Active and Modern Rock radio.

Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone - Various Reviews

A new Slipknot album means new masks, new outfits—and new sonic sojourns. "All Hope Is Gone" doesn't disappoint in that regard. Building on the experiments of 2004's "Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)," the set is at once Slipknot's most ambitious and accessible outing to date, with a broad palette of sounds and textures that shift faster than Michael Phelps off the starting block. "Sulfur," "Psychosocial," "Dead Memories" and "Vendetta" are easy fits next to most anything else on the active rock front, especially at night, while the melodic, acoustic guitar-driven "Snuff" is this album's "Circle." On the heavier tip, ".execute/Gematria (The Killing Name)" opens the album with seven-plus minutes of doomy chords and socio-political diatribe, and "Gehenna" is a leaded, layered sludge fest. On it, Corey Taylor howls that he "cannot maintain a semblance of normal anymore"—which, to the Maggots, is the best news of all. —Gary Graff

"All Hope is Gone" starts off with a 1-2 punch to the gut with "Execute"/"Gematria" that will leave your entrails spilled over the floor. It's thrash metal at its most brutal. Your ears couldn't survive an hour of the stuff, so Slipknot smartly dials it back a notch for the rest of the album. "All Hope is Gone" proves to be a continuation of the more melodic direction that Slipknot began on their previous release, "The Subliminal Verses".

If you're looking for another "Iowa", you'll have to look elsewhere. Slipknot have clearly moved on to a sound more akin to traditional hard rock--think early Alice in Chains. The second single, "Psychosocial," is the best radio-ready single that Slipknot has released since "Left Behind." It's a great song, but "This Cold Black" is the highlight of the album. It's a perfect showcase of Slipknot's now-patented brand of heavy rock: soaring chorus, heavy verses, and relentless, pounding percussion.

Slipknot veers off into lighter--and more musical--territory with the second half of the disc, peaking with the ballad "Gehenna". Corey Taylor sings his heart out, abandoning his growling metal voice for several tracks almost entirely. If you're a fan of his other band, Stone Sour, you'll find this to be a welcome development. Other fans in search of a total assault on the senses will once again be disappointed.

And that's the band's greatest weakness: In attempting to be all things to all people, they may ultimately end up with a dwindling fanbase. The heavier tracks may be too harsh for casual rock fans, while the softer tracks are going to leave a (stone) sour taste in the mouths of diehard metal fans. It's a tightrope act that Slipknot have walked their entire careers, and it's an act that may have finally reached its pinnacle with "All Hope is Gone". - A Slipknot Fan

All Hope Is Gone - Song Titles

1. ".execute." – 1:49
2. "Gematria (The Killing Name)" – 6:02
3. "Sulfur" – 4:38
4. "Psychosocial" – 4:42
5. "Dead Memories" – 4:29
6. "Vendetta" – 5:16
7. "Butcher's Hook" – 4:15
8. "Gehenna" – 6:53
9. "This Cold Black" – 4:40
10. "Wherein Lies Continue" – 5:37
11. "Snuff" – 4:36
12. "All Hope Is Gone" – 4:45

"Special Edition" bonus tracks

13. "Child of Burning Time" – 5:10
14. "Vermilion Pt. 2" (Bloodstone mix) – 3:39
15. "'Til We Die" – 5:46

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