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This is dark stuff, but there's excellent musicianship to be found on these heavy meltdowns.
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All Hope Is Gone as a whole winds up being as bleak and unforgiving as its title.
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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.
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Happily, Slipknot can pull in these directions and still maintain a new standard of bone-crunching intensity . There are louder metal bands in the world, for sure, but the Iowan nine-piece continue to make the most noise.
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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.
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While their peers pander to the mainstream, the masked musicians continue to honour their scene by staying true to their roots while broadening their sound.
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All Hope Is Gone, reportedly the first thing they've recorded in years without wanting to kill each other, proves that there's still musical unity in disharmony.
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Slipknot stops pummeling every now and then for a few lines of melodic chorus, a full-length dirge, even a power ballad that’s a sort of spurned love song.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 197 out of 252
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Mixed: 39 out of 252
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Negative: 16 out of 252
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Nov 17, 2011
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JeffHOct 7, 2008
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Oct 5, 2019It's a good album with good music, and Psychosocial is good and it's just a very good album, with amazing masks, and good head banging music