Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
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A new Slipknot album means new masks, new outfits—and new sonic sojourns. All Hope Is Gone doesn't disappoint in that regard. Building on the experiments of 2004's Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses), 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. Sulfur, Psychosocial, Dead Memories and Vendetta are easy fits next to most anything else on the active rock front, especially at night, while the melodic, acoustic guitar-driven Snuff is this album's Circle. On the heavier tip, .execute/Gematria (The Killing Name) opens the album with seven-plus minutes of doomy chords and socio-political diatribe, and...
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