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All Hope Is Gone |  | Artist: Slipknot
Label: Roadrunner
Category: Music
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 1196
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 179382
UPC: 016861793821
EAN: 0016861793821
ASIN: B001BGTWXI
Release Date: August 25, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Execute | | • | Gematria (The Killing Name) | | • | Sulfur | | • | Psychosocial | | • | Dead Memories | | • | Vendetta | | • | Butcher's Hook | | • | Gehenna | | • | This Cold Black | | • | Wherein Lies Continue | | • | Snuff | | • | All Hope Is Gone |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
For most bands, the process of experimentation involves infusing more traditional song structures with weirder, or less familiar sonic elements. Not so for Iowa's Slipknot. iAll Hope Is Gone/i, the metal neuftet's fourth full-length, finds them further mining the seam that produced 2004's iVol 3: The Subliminal Verses/i, adulterating their caustic, percussion-heavy take on thrash metal with acoustic guitars and anthemic choruses. Present too, though, is a heaviness that harkens back to 2001's aggressive iIowa/i, meaning the likes of "Psychosocial" and "Dead Memories" mix big, inclusive vocal hooks with bulldozing low-end and savage percussion breakdowns set to arcane time signatures. Nor is it all set to formula: "Butcher's Hook", for instance, sounds nothing like anything in Slipknot's catalogue to date. It is a slamming funk-metal track not unlike The Rollins Band, with broiling! anti-establishment lyrics and a huge call-and-response chorus. The occasional Nickelback-like chorus might appall the diehards, but Slipknot are still stretching themselves, and iAll Hope Is Gone/i stands up to anything in their catalogue. i--Louis Pattison/i
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 2008: Year of the Knot August 22, 2008
Karen L. Hutchison (Aberdeen, Scotland)
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Furious guitars, and politically/emotionally charged lyrics and the best voice in metal propel "All Hope is Gone" to the status of the best metal album of 08 so far.
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br /Things start of menacingly with "execute", an intro reminiscint of IOWA's (515), but the album really gets going when "Gematria(The Killing Name)" kicks in. Intense thrash riffing enshrouds the screams of "WE WILL BURN YOUR CITIES DOWN"; a clear signal of intent. "Sulfur" continues in the same vein but with Taylor singing in the chorus rather than his trademark growl. First single, "Psychosocial" is an absolute powerhouse. It pounds into your head before offering light relief with Taylor again singing the chorus in a very ear-friendly tone.
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br /Then comes controversy: "Dead Memories". The song is of a high quality, like 90's grunge given a Knot makeover, but somehow doesn't sound right after the blistering opening tracks. The complaints will flood in that it is too "Stone Sour". Good thing then that "Vendetta" comes on, before you can question the previous track. "ARE YOU READY FOR THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE?" shout the Knot and you feel obliged to say YES."Butchers Hook" cranks up the anger several notches, an instant Slipknot classic.
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br /"Gehenna" is exeperimental, eerie and brilliant. "This Cold Black" is the heaviest song on the album, whiplash guitars and snapping drum work powers Taylor's talk of "PNEUMATIC DESTROYERS"- ending in an astonishing crescendo of noise. "Wherein Lies Continue" is brutal until the softly sung "I WONT CONTROL, OR RESTRAIN THINGS I DONT UNDERSTAND" gives melody to the monster. "Snuff", however takes melody to the max. It just depends whether you can appreciate Corey's singing voice in Slipknot, rather than Stone Sour. "All Hope is Gone" finsihes the album off in epic, speed metal fashion.
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br /One hell of an album.
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Rhymes with a silly made up word like Disasterpiece October 5, 2008
Dead Ted Danson (Truth Or Consequences, New Mexicock)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having gotten fairly familiar with the album, then leaving it for a while to make sure it wasn't post-release enthusiasm, I can now honestly say that I believe this is the band's best effort since their debut. While every Slipknot album has its faults, even that oh-so-precious classic first assault, those on All Hope... are less immediately obvious, and certainly nowhere near as off-putting as they were on the previous two records. And unlike the previous two records, you'll find more to praise than dismiss.
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br /For a start, I tend to skip on past previous singles "Left Behind" and "Vermillion Pt. 1", and mercifully, there is no such track on here. Sure, "Dead Memories" and "Snuff" rank amongst the bands less sonically abrasive material, but there is a certain maturity here, musically at least, which was absent from those previous albums. "Snuff" in particular stands out as one of the album's best tracks, and is sure to appeal to fans of the fantastic "Circle" from The Subliminal Verses. Said maturity is obvious not just on these tracks but on the whole record. There is less unnecessary messing about on this album, which at twelve tracks also clocks in as the most concise output so far. Standard formless opener ".Execute." segues into thrasher "Gematria (The Killing Name)", a choice track to sum up the album. While it has new elements (the timing insanity of the opening, decent solos) it still features Slipknot hallmarks in that instantly-hooky chorus and resoundingly industrial percussive backup. The rest of the album follows suit, with the occasional detour into new territory. "Sulfur" and single "Psychosocial" follow the trend set by the opener, while the quieter "Dead Memories" slows things down before the undeniably fun "Vendetta" provides one of the best riff/chorus combos of the year so far. "Butcher's Hook" is less predictable fare, as is follower "Gehenna", quite possibly one of the spookiest songs ever recorded, and sure to appeal to fans of "Gently". Another two slabs of perfect metal arrive in the crushing "This Cold Black" and it's sequel of sorts, "Wherein Lies Continue". "Snuff" is a simple effort, easily accessible and sure to stick in your head for days, without feeling out of place in the slightest. The title track rounds off the album, only its chorus grating a little. Otherwise, it's a great closer, although the least effective final track of the band's catalogue.
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br /The special edition features expended artwork, though aggravatingly no place for the fatter-than-average booklet, which is guaranteed to annoy the pernickety among us. What you're paying for is an extra three tracks and a short documentary DVD. The first of the bonus cuts, "Child of Burning Time" makes as little sense as its wilfully-abstract title. It's passable, but I can see why it was left off the standard edition. The remix of Vermillion Pt. 2 provides no challenge at all: it's a short, pretty listen. Still, I'd rather not have a track from a previous album on it's follow up. The final track is "'Til We Die", a Shawn-drummed slow-burner which closes the album quite well. But all said, the bonus tracks aren't worth shelling out the extra cash for. The bonus DVD is no better. It features no interview footage, and a smattering of in-studio performance, but for the most part it consists of poorly shot imagery. The sooner Slipknot realise they're a metal band and not an art exhibition the better, for all of us. Voliminal was proof of this.
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br /What All Hope... represents to me is a honing of skills, a musical and professional maturity. In simple terms, there's very little on this album to make you cringe, but plenty to give you a swift kick in the rear. Detractors will be forced to take heed and recognize this band is still a force to be reckoned with. Highly, highly recommended.
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Undoubtedly Superb - The Grim Clowns Return!!! October 13, 2008
Steven T. Jarvis (Thanet, Kent)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have read other people's reviews of this album, but I am not going to analyze it for you. I will tell you that, musically and lyrically, it is Slipknot's most well presented album, tjhough taking no credit from its precedessors. All Hope Is Gone still has the same presence that the first two albums had, together with the roundedness of Vol 3 (Subliminal Verses), but it is different; it still retains the power that first drew me in and the style is just as vital but, in a sense, has come of age, without losing any of the band's originality.
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br /Lyrically brilliant, this album has something of the Marilyn Manson touch to it; there is anger and a passion, but directed anger and a passion that comes from awareness: Gematria (The Killing Name) is that anger, whereas Butcher's Hook and All Hope Is Gone are reflections of the awareness. But, for those who just want to listen to a thoroughly amazing and outstanding heavy metal album that makes you want to rock until your head explodes... this is it.
Slipknot All Hope is gone October 29, 2008
Mr. A. N. Seed (Rugby, Midlands)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
A quality album- not fot the die hard fan of Slipknot- they have adpated there sound a bit - solos and awesome riffs to head bang too. personally it shows they have matured as a band and moved on from the old sound. Still very heavy in parts- enjoyable if your into headbanging and not the imagery and bandwagon that people jumped on with Slipknot- this is about the music and very impressive!
Slipknot September 6, 2008
The Sun No Longer Rises
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Slipknot..Slipknot..Slipknot! The long-awaited album is FINALLY here! And it's not disappointing in the slightest. The album is a (disaster)piece. It's totally breath-taking. "Gehenna" is one of the slower songs on the album, but that doesn't by any means mean it's any less heavy. "Psychosocial" is one of the catchiest and `stick in the head' songs on the album. The head splitting opening riff makes you just want to get up and mosh your heart out. The title track, "All Hope Is Gone" sounds like the classic slipknot we all know and love. All in all, if you're a hard-hitting slipknot fan, you will not be disappointed. For those new to slipknot, this is an album not to be missed.
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