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| All Hope Is Gone (Special Edition CD/DVD) | 
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| Artist: Slipknot
Label: Roadrunner Records
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  166 reviews
Sales Rank: 815
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Special Edition
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 26, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: *BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED*
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | .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 | | • | Child of Burning Tire | | • | Til We Die | | • | Vermillion Pt 2 (Bloodstone Mix) |
Disc 2
| • | Making of All Hope Is Gone |
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Product Description
Special Edition includes bonus tracks and a DVD featuring the making of All Hope Is Gone. After over 5 million albums sold in the US, Slipknot returns with their most powerful
statement yet - All Hope Is Gone. Filled with the fury people have come to expect from
Slipknot as well as some extraordinary surprises, this album is the culmination of the
band' s 9 unique members, three platinum albums and their 10 year journey at the top
of the Hard Rock genre. Kicked off by the powerful crescendo that is Execute and
Gematria (The Killing Name) and ending with the blistering track All Hope Is Gone
- the album is a cohesive statement about the world today and truly cements the
band as one of Rock' s heavyweights. The lead single Psychosocial will propel the new
album to match and exceed the success of the last album, Vol 3: Subliminal Verses
which produced numerous Top 20 songs at Rock radio including a Top 5 track at Active and
Modern Rock radio.
Album Description
This limited edition digipack includes 3 additional tracks & a bonus DVD on the making of the album. Bonus Tracks: Child Of Burning Tire; Til We Die; Vermilion Part 2 (Bloodstone Mix).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 161 more reviews...
 Four Years? This Is It? August 26, 2008
44 out of 82 found this review helpful
Well for starters, words cannot describe how excited I was for the new Slipknot album. I really thought it would change the metal world, a tour de force of the force that is Slipknot. Boy was I wrong. There's nothing new here, little to appreciate, and alot to dislike. There's already Stone Sour. Slipknot seems destined to become Stone Sour pt. 2.
The album isn't out and out bad. Just incredibly disappointing. I think it is easy to say that "Psychosocial" may be their most popular song to date, but it also showed alot of potential. Sadly, "Psychosocial" is the highlight of the album, when it was expected to merely be a starting point for the best Slipknot album yet.
Certainly, not everyone hates AHIG. It's receiving generally favorable reviews in both underground and mainstream media, and people seem to like the new Slipknot. This is the problem. They have now begun to make music for the masses, rather than for themselves or their loyal maggot fanbase.
Now, some of the tracks are rather quite potent. "Psychosocial" is a great single. "Butcher's Hook" may be the most coherent track on the album, sounding like good ol' '99 Slipknot. The rest sounds like a retarded love child of Iowa and Vol. 3. It's either too heavy or far too soft. Normally, heavy is better, but when it's thrown in with radio-ready songs like "Dead Memories" or "Sulfur" or the horrendous "Snuff", it begins to paint pictures of a ballerina at Metal Mayhem. Or something along those lines. The point is, too many tracks grab ahold of your attention, only to be floored by nonsensical track placing or a wrong turn instead of a step up.
There is promise for Slipknot yet, however all commendable sections of the album get buried alive by horrible parts. "Gehenna" is genuinely frightening, and Corey Taylor honestly sounds like a maniacal killer. Songs like thids remind people why they liked Slipknot to begin with. But I counted down the days until this arrived, watched Slipknot at Mayhem, and garnered more anticipation as each day passed. Sadly, I hardly even care about Slipknot anymore after hearing this. It's proof that they are losing their fire, and maybe they should have broken up after The Subliminal Verses. And after having FOUR YEARS to come back hard, they miss all their targets. A very mediocre outing and incredibly disappointing. I'm trying very hard to recover from how bummed out I am, and I would be shocked if I found a true maggot who honestly enjoyed this album.
 Best Slipknot Album (if you are an open minded rock fan) August 27, 2008
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Let me start with a few disclaimers about this album. If you are a one-dimensional rock fan whose entire music collection consists of a particular genre (i.e., metal ), then you are going to feel disappointed. Specifically, if you are one of the countless Slipknot "fans" obsessed with the Iowa album you will definitely hate this album. Guaranteed!!! If you like rock music in general (For example, I listen to various types of rock music...everything from Radiohead to Slayer and all in between) then you will really appreciate this album.
I will rate this album as their 2nd best; behind their self-titled debut album (the one that made me a Slipknot fan to begin with). Honestly, I always found Iowa to be a pretty boring album. Surely, it is their heaviest album, but the eternal screaming on every song made the record sound like a single long song. To the dislike of many, with Vol. 3, the band made a drastic change in their music, incorporating solos, adding more melodic choruses, and varying the tempo of the music in the whole album and withing songs.
With "All Hope is Gone", Slipknot has been able to capture the best elements of all their previous albums without sounding repetitive. They have continued to expand their sound and grow musically, which I greatly appreciate. In general, if you have liked the band's entire catalog, you will be rewarded with their best musical outing yet. If you still living in the past and thinking about Iowa, then look elsewhere.
Starts With a Bang, Ends With a Whimper August 26, 2008
17 out of 23 found this review helpful
"All Hope is Gone" starts off with a 1-2 punch to the gut with "Execute"/"Gematria" that will leave your entrails spilled over the floor. It's thrash metal at its most brutal. Your ears couldn't survive an hour of the stuff, so Slipknot smartly dials it back a notch for the rest of the album. "All Hope is Gone" proves to be a continuation of the more melodic direction that Slipknot began on their previous release, "The Subliminal Verses".
If you're looking for another "Iowa", you'll have to look elsewhere. Slipknot have clearly moved on to a sound more akin to traditional hard rock--think early Alice in Chains or "Load"-era Metallica. The second single, "Psychosocial," is the best radio-ready single that Slipknot has released since "Left Behind." It's a great song, but "This Cold Black" is the highlight of the album. It's a perfect showcase of Slipknot's now-patented brand of heavy rock: soaring chorus, heavy verses, and relentless, pounding percussion.
Slipknot veers off into lighter--and more musical--territory with the second half of the disc, peaking with the ballad "Gehenna". Corey Taylor sings his heart out, abandoning his growling metal voice for several tracks almost entirely. If you're a fan of his other band, Stone Sour, you'll find this to be a welcome development. Other fans in search of a total assault on the senses will once again be disappointed. [Now, after listening to the disc for a week, I should add that the lightest tracks are the "bonus" tracks, so the actual album is a little heavier than I first reported.]
And that's the band's greatest weakness: In attempting to be all things to all people, they may ultimately end up with a dwindling fanbase. The heavier tracks may be too harsh for casual rock fans, while the softer tracks are going to leave a (stone) sour taste in the mouths of diehard metal fans. It's a tightrope act that Slipknot have walked their entire careers, and it's an act that may have finally reached its pinnacle with "All Hope is Gone".
Socialpsychos August 29, 2008
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
When a band manages to survive for a decade and more, it's because they're willing to stretch out into new territory and keep their sound fresh. As usual, Slipknot is plagued by so-called fans complaining about how the band doesn't sound exactly like it did on albums from at least seven years ago. Well if you want musicians to keep on sounding exactly the same album after album, listen to Country Pop or Lite Jazz and see how long your interest holds up. Slipknot is definitely evolving as a band, and that's what serious veteran musicians do. So this album should be judged not because it's a bit different than their earlier works, but on whether its musical statements are successful. Here's where the rubber mask meets the road for Slipknot.
The side projects, especially Stone Sour, have obviously added variety and maturity to the Slipknot sound. "Gematria (The Killing Name)" is probably their most intricate and solidly written track yet, and things get really interesting in "Wherein Lies Continue" which slows down the attack to the pace of rumbling hardcore and increases Slipknot's heaviness far beyond the standard bashing and screaming that nu-fans think is true metal. Meanwhile, the Slipknot percussion army - the true source of the band's uniqueness - works up some of their swinginest grooves ever in "Sulphur" and "Psychosocial." The only real trouble on this album comes with the power ballads "Dead Memories" and "Snuff," which are reasonable tries at maturity but end up sounding like Nickelback and other meatheads, and an attempt at Korn-ish atmosphere in "Gehenna" is a major misstep. Overall, everybody in the band other than the percussion army is still plagued by a lack of true personality and uniqueness in their performances. #0 and #5 are ridiculously underutilized in the band's total sound, though #8's lyrics and mannerisms are getting better.
While not all of Slipknot's current advancements work, at least they've got the will to develop and improve. That's worthy of respect from fans, even those who refuse to live in the present. [~dooomsdayer520~]
 What is this? August 27, 2008
11 out of 22 found this review helpful
First of all I have been a Slipknot fan since the inception. I have all their albums and have been to countless shows. This album is pretty weak. If you are expecting the hardest album ever (what the band promised) then my friend you will be deeply disappointed. I mean there is a ballad on this CD!!! I have never wanted to wave a lighter in the air at a Slipknot concert. That's when you know they have lost their edge!
On a side note if this was a Stone Sour album it would be great. I just hold Slipknot to a higher standard that's all. But if you enjoy long walks on the beach and holding hands in the park then this album is for you!!!
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