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Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
| Ew |
| Is it possible to dress up like a Halloween creep and still rail against social injustice? Slipknot pull it off on their new album All Hope Is Gone, which is a metal assault-and-battery on the hypocrisies of the modern world. ''The state of the nation...a broken promise is as good as a lie,'' Corey Taylor barks in his best Cookie Monster voice on the title track, and asks, ''What if God doesn't care?'' on the anti-organized-religion rant ''Gematria,'' as drummer Joey Jordison pounds double-bass patterns to wake the undead. This is dark stuff, but there's excellent musicianship to be found on these heavy meltdowns....full text |
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| Billboard |
| 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....full text |
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| Courant |
| SlipKnot's fifth album finds the nine-piece alternative metal band at an unquestionable creative peak — but the effort may only further alienate some of its diehard, shred-metal fans....full text |
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