SLIPKNOT: A First Listen To New Album 'All Hope Is Gone'

June 20, 2008

RollingStone.com has posted a short review of six unmastered songs from SLIPKNOT's forthcoming album, "All Hope Is Gone", due on August 26 via Roadrunner Records. An excerpt from the write-up follows.

"The album the first SLIPKNOT record to be recorded in the band's home state kicks off with a spoken word intro, as frontman Corey Taylor gradually grows more and more agitated, snarling, 'Where are your gods and politicians?' and 'You rage for no reason because to have no reason.' The first full song, 'Gematria', features twin guitar solos from Mick Thomson and Jim Root as Taylor repeatedly asks, 'What if God doesn't care?' while the band's multiple percussionists generate a din that's more suffocating than ever. Taylor repeatedly invokes America on the lengthy track, and his thoughts aren't especially ambiguous."

Read the entire review at RollingStone.com.

"All Hope Is Gone" was recorded this spring and was co-produced by the band and Dave Fortman (EVANESCENCE, MUDVAYNE).

The album's first single, "Psychosocial", will be delivered to radio on June 30 and will be available digitally on July 1. A complete track listing will be announced shortly.

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