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| All Hope Is Gone: +DVD | 
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| Artist: Slipknot
Label: Roadrunner
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (49 reviews)
Sales Rank: 14356
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.6
MPN: 179385
UPC: 016861793852
EAN: 0016861793852
ASIN: B001BKXUOQ
Release Date: August 25, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Saving my sanity October 25, 2008
Thank god for Slipknot!
I was just about going crazy with the lack of new music in my collection as everything sounds the same recently.
In my opinion this is the best slipknot album as a whole. The songs have really catchy choruses and although there are a couple of "softer" tracks, they do fit in with the flow of the album.
The dvd is a 30min short film that gives a visual incite into the recording of the album - with some eerie alien sceens.
 All Hope really is Gone October 18, 2008
Oh dear. The word 'experimental' has been used by Corey Taylor.
What are we in for now?
Musically this album is very good.
But it's not Slipknot.
'Snuff' is excellent but it really is bordering on a power ballad which isn't really what we want to be seeing from a Slipknot album is it?
In an interview leading up to the release of this album, Joey Jordison said that this would be the heaviest release to date. Really?
where's the heavy and fast-paced Slipknot with their incredibly powerful sound and chaotic style?
Gone. Along with All Hope apparently.
Is their really any track on this album which is even close to People=**** or the Heretic Anthem? I don't think so.
Songs like Gematria and the title track are relatively heavy but they don't pack the punch that was once felt in songs like (sic) and eyeless.
Musically sound and worth listening to.
But all the original fans will be heavily disappointed.
on one final note, what happened to Sid Wilson?
His frantic scratching miles above the heavily down-tuned guitars used to make songs work on previous albums.
His scratching seems very quiet and under-used on this effort.
PRODUCED BY DAVE MUSTAINE!!! October 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A disappointing album with few highlights. But it sounds like that Dave Mustaine must have had a hand in producing this Album; as half the songs are like Megadeth "B" sides!!!!....
my first slipknot album - and I'm impressed October 17, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
All Hope Is Gone
Well this is my first Slipknot album, having come quite late into this kind of music....I'm in my mid-thirties!.
But what a rip-roaring album this is. Having heard Psychosocial on Kerrang, I really got into and thought if this is what Slipknot are about then I want to hear more. I've not been disappointed. Highlights for me are Psychosocial, all hope is gone, butchers hook and the excellent 'Sulfur' which I cannot get enough of at the moment. I was also surprised by the 'softer' Dead memories which i wouldn't have expected to hear on an album like this but it's a good song, just seems out of place.
If I'm recommending this to anyone, then I'd say give it a try. If you like bullet-speed drumming, some amazing guitar riffs and singers who can sing and shout with equal ability then this is an album for you!
Undoubtedly Superb - The Grim Clowns Return!!! October 13, 2008
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.
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.
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