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“All Hope Is Gone,” is the title of the fourth effort from American heavy metal act Slipknot straight out of Des Moines, Iowa. Slipknot’s current line-up are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor. They are known as one of the most pioneering bands in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. The band formed in late 1995 and went through several band changes as most bands tend to do, with the release of their independent debut “Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat,” in 96. Their killer smash self-titled album was unleashed in 1999 and followed two other albums, “Iowa,” in 01 and “Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses),” in 04. Having the members take their separate routes doing their own things over the year’s the band barely had time to create this record but it was made sooner or later, and was the band’s first album on a major record label to be recorded in their home state Iowa. The band has declared that “All Hope Is Gone,” to be their heaviest record to date. An expansion on the thrash metal riffs that were shown on “Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses),” also adding additional guitar solos throughout. However, not only did the band want this record to be most heavy they wanted to go another route, and be a more experimental record, and have more acoustic guitars and melodic vocals, taking the same route as most other acts are doing now a days basically. Come on I know most metal acts have a few acoustic tracks here and there, but Slipknot displayed this already with “Vermilion” why bring on the soft side of a heavy metal band that is known to be the most American heavy metal sensation around? To me that’s uncalled for if you ask me. Corey Taylor described All Hope Is Gone as a “very dark” combination of the band’s two most recent studio albums, Iowa and Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses).He also stated “It’s going to rip your face off…I don’t think the world will be ready for this album.” So is “All Hope Is Gone,” the absolute killer album Cory Taylor claims? I’d have to agree on it being “very dark” and it having more of a melodic mellow acoustic sense of feel to it as well, but as for it ripping our faces off basically killing us, I’d have to say it does and it doesn’t.

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