All Hope Is Gone

Pissy teen vibes par excellence. (That’s a compliment, of course.)

I listened to a fair bit of a Slipknot when I was younger. Since my friends at the time were big fans. So it’s a bit nostalgic for me. But more of their earlier albums. I think I appreciate their music more now than I did at the time. Overall still not my fav but I can appreciate what they were doing.

First time listening to Slipknot for me. They're pretty close to music I do like, but somehow not really my thing.

Это правда неплохо, насколько я поняла, это один из самых мягких их альбомов

Erm

Man, people either love or hate Slipknot. Their fans are passionate and dedicated, and their critics are judgemental and confused, by their image, their appearances and their music. I’ll admit, this was the first time I’ve listened to a slipknot album, they came in when I was on my way out of my metal phase. So I missed the bandwagon and went into this with no skin in the game. And???……I can definitely see why the hype and how they’ve built a solid fan base over the years. Simply by being great musicians and performers. This album, and slipknot, may not be to everyone’s liking, but are they worth putting on, turning the volume up to 11 and head banging and belting harmonies at the top of your lungs, fuck yeah little man. Rock on.

Not my kind of music. Can't tell between the differnt bands.

At a certain point it all starts to sound the same. Still better than half the trash on this list though

the perfect music to put a toaster in the bath too

Starts out strong

3 out of 5. Good golly I haven't listened to them since Iowa. Much better than I thought it would be.

das ist ein gutes heay metal album

After my "Nu Metal Phase" of life, I realized it was just metal's pop emo genre. I drifted from the genre when Slipknot released their first album, and never really got into them, but find them to be better than most nu metal bands... but Deftones is far better. 3.5 stars

2,5

This one is a surprise as I was never a big fan of Slipknot and totally stopped paying attention to them after their second record so had never heard of this one before. While this version of the band has some elements (the groove-based riffs and big melodic hooks) that I like, the overall impression is way less distinctive than their earlier stuff and feels very commercial and empty. The chorus vocals are largely full of a disingenuous emotive quality that really turns me off. I dig some tracks more than others. “This Cold Black” and “All Hope is Gone” have some of the old Slipknot blustery fire. The brooding “Gehenna” has some charm to it. I had heard “Psychosocial” before. It’s not terrible as 2000s metal anthems go.

The "death to false metal" types will likely balk at the inclusion of any Slipknot on this list, but if it had to be one it MUST be the self-titled album, which apparently is on here. By no means should the fourth release from this band qualify. That said, it's got the hallmarks of Slipknot's glory days here and there. Some catchy stuff, good grooves. Songs go on for way too long.

It's the gimmick that loses me with Slipknot. The music is fine, good decent nu-metal. I say Nu-metal but the sampling & scratches are there but its more of a feature than the draw. The draw is the metal, they create an interesting atmosphere for their lyrics & sound. It's the dumb gimmick of 9?! people in fucked up masks & jumpsuits. Referring to each member by numbers 0-9 instead of names. The 9 people sound like 5 if I'm being nice. What the fuck are the other 4 doing? Gimmicks make me lose respect for you. You make good music. I don't need all the silly window dressing. Slipknot is good enough without the gimmick. Snuff is the first time I can remember Slipknot getting major radio airplay. So this is their breakthrough much like Korn's Follow the Leader. 3

Vermoeiend, wat een herrie

Didn’t have high hopes when this popped up, but I liked it way more than I expected.

Banger nu metal album, Dead memories, og snuff var highlights for meg

I generally enjoy Slipknot, but I wouldn’t call this my favorite album of theirs. Vol. 3 has several songs that I actually like and enjoy listening to on a regular basis (looking at “Duality” while I type this, which is of course one of their best songs). I did add some songs to my “liked” Spotify playlist while listening to this album though! Namely: Sulfur, Dead Memories, Gehenna, and Snuff. Snuff is probably my fav off of this one! That was a great find for me personally. I wish I could give half star ratings on this site!! I’d probably go 3.5

For me, this is when Slipknot started to sound too polished. It’s good, but Vol 3 is better. There are some really good tracks here though. Snuff is probably my favorite, although it sounds more like Stone Sour than Slipknot. Just enough to edge a 4.

Not what I search for in life

I am not angry or disaffected enough for this.

I like the stompy riffs and grunty vocal bits best.

Oh god no, what a load of 💩

Jesus no

Not my favorite Slipknot album but not the worst one either. I'm surprised to see such low scores on this site for this one, I guess lots of people really do prefer the generic bands of the 60's and 70's to something like this.

What was that first track. Every time I opened Spotify, the cover scared me 😂 Usually don’t listen to this type of songs, the drums are cool but I don’t like the shouting as much (I can’t hear what they are screaming about) There were tracks I liked like psychosocial bc they actually sang and the drums were fantastic

I actually like them when they’re not screaming. Snuff, Child Of Burning Time, Vermilion Pt. 2 - all good

Good record and better than most say on this site. Take some disparate influences (emo, core, groove metal) and mash em together and this is a solid album that leans a bit too long but has a few great songs (“Psychosocial,” “Snuff”).

Music to punch a hole in drywall and call your mom a bitch to.

I think my expectations were tempered after listening to the first Slipknot album. Also, the music on this one seemed a little more varied than on the other album. With that being said, I think slipknot's music is just not my thing.

Bit random to see this on here. Takes me back to being a teenager so some nostalgia points here

Not what I expected and better than I expected. Would have liked it more if they had stayed even more on the Metal part of the Nu Metal.

I used to not really care for Slipknot. I still don't, but I used to, too.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would

The world's most metal ska band. Slipknot kind of sucks, Corey Taylor's other band Stone Sour is infinity better.

not bad but not interesting for me

Its just noice

I liked some bands adjacent to this as a teenager, but now I cant get into it at the same level as I could back then. Didnt even finish the album.

omg stoppp

Not as hardcore as I was expecting. Still heavy at times, but manageable. Solid 2.5/5.0.

Vocals like this are so boring. I'm gonna give it a 2 because I know worse metal than Slipknot exists but I would not reach for this if I had a choice, 99 times out of a 100. Kinda hard to tell when one song ended and another began.

Psychosocial and Dead Memories are classic Slipknot tracks IMO. This band is right up my alley, but growing up in butt-fuck America under religious oppression meant there was no way for me to hear this other than occasionally radio edits on our local hard rock station once I could drive myself to school and back. It was interesting reading the Wiki for this record and finding that Jordison was the one who really liked this, while the rest of the band really did not. 18 years later (fuck I'm old, I remember when this came out) I wonder if their opinions have changed? This album gets a little political, while sticking to the darkness you'd expect from Slipknot. Excellent record. RIP Joey Jordison.

3.75

My Slipknot phase lasted one album, their first one. Sounds more thrash metal I think. Sill dumb as fuck, kind of fun sometimes though. But totally generic, and samey to me. Maybe including their first makes more sense. 2.5 rounded down Heard before? No Owned: No, 112/451 (24%) Will I get: No

Oof, better than their other one but not by much

Slipknot? On the 1001 albums you must listen to before you die? And it’s not their debut? I mean, All Hope Is Gone is one of my favourite Slipknot albums - Gehenna is a top 10 track of theirs. Sulfur, Psychosocial, Dead Memories all high on the list. I don’t understand the love for Snuff, but whatever. But if someone asked me where to start with Slipknot, I’d recommend Iowa instead. Or their self titled debut. Loses its way in the second half, but I still rate it a solid 4/5

This album isn't actually on the list but I was glad for some decent content instead of the 60% of drivel the actual list has.

Slipknot in 2008 was good I guess, who knew? Somewhere between Ghost & Avenged Sevenfold…surprisingly not as spooky or even violent/brutal as my like 6th grade brain imagined these guys did.

Maybe closer to a 5 than I’d like to admit. I was listening to a decent amount of metalcore in 2008 but Slipknot seemed to heavy or maybe just had a stink of numetal on them. This was super surprising and I’ll slap my 20 year old self for thinking he was better than masked killers. You can’t blame him though, he preferred masked heroes like The Aquabats

Fine honestly, I just didn’t want to listen to well over an hour of this.

its everything i love about slipknot in one album - can do some yelling, some crying. just perfect.

If I could give 0 stars, I would. No melody, no harmony, no noteworthy lyrics, no noteworthy songs. This was a completely wasted slot. On a list that excludes hundreds of amazing albums, why spend a slot on something without musical quality?

Engaging and enraging but a bit too forgettable.

It was not as great as I hoped, Sulfur and Dead Memories were great (as well as psychosocial but thats a given) Oh snuff was also fantastic.

i just. i can't. i respect it. but it's just a DNF for me

2008 - 4th studio album - groove metal / nu metal - hgrrrr vocal - well-receiver; original band disbanded in ~2010?; 1:12:00?!; too long; corey taylor liked it, rest of the band hated it. There is nothing wrong with the record but I am choosing to rate subjectively. This is the only kind of music I’ve found that I can’t derive any enjoyment or satisfaction out of. I only made it through half of this and the only one I could almost tolerate was Psychosocial. No man. I don’t need to listen to anything that makes me relieved for silence again.

Alright let's check this out eh? Loud. Ok. Sure. What. Idrk if I'm capable of having an opinion on this. It's loud. It's screaming. It's pretty banging tbh. Idk. Knot mention. Interesting. I do like this actually. Favourite: Dead Memories Least favourite: .execute.

Sure

If you think this is a serious album then you're going to hate it. If you embrace your inner angsty 14 year old self then it's great. It's nu-metal, sure...but sometimes you just want some loud chugging and screaming.

MY SMILE WAS TAKEN LONG AGO IF I CAN CHANGE I HOPE I NEVER KNOWW dito isso, miseravelmente ruim, como todos do slipknot

mais rock para pré-adolescentes revoltados esse tem até uma bateria na pegada do death metal feito artificialmente. o foda eh que o resto eh nu-metal medíocre. 2008 e os mano ainda insistiam nessa sonoridade meia boca nao vou dar 1 pela bateria e por snuff. quando eu era pré-adolescente triste e revoltado, gostava mto de snuff.

I am not listening to this

This mostly sounded the same to me across its 57 minute runtime, aside from moments where there was a topline melody. The songs were structured the same, almost all of them were between 4 to 6 minutes long, and the subject matter wasn’t particularly broad. Confusing use of blast beats and inaudible bass guitar. I felt like I’d been listening to it forever, then checked where I was in the tracklist and thought “Oh god, I’m not even halfway through.” Not for me.

This record is yet another instance of a record being included due to it containing the band's greatest hit. However, the album remains vastly inferior to their debut, and the leading single 'Snuff' is not sufficient to justify that this record should be included. 6/10 [DROP]

lol, no.

Screw it, this thing rips. A bit of an odd inclusion with Iowa and Vol. 3 out there, but anything heavy is appreciated. Some monster riffs, sick breakdowns, and good production. Spiritually a 3.5, but giving them a bump for bringing actually heavy music to the masses.

As far as I’m concerned, this has little to do with music 😕 One star…

Never boring. Which is more than you can say for the majority of the albums on this list. People that reckon it’s “just screaming” need to learn to respect the level of skill it takes to perform this type of music.

Begrudging low-volume listen for the sake of completeness.. 16 songs?! 75 minutes??!! Come on.

4/10 Okay, I can accept that Slipknot is on this list... but does there really need to be two of their albums? Why this album? I feel like their heyday was on the 90s, not the late 2000s. Makes this list seem out of touch (which, in many ways, it was). In general I like the vocals of whoever is singing, and the drums are great. Can't stand the screaming or the lyrics, and the pacing of the album is a bit strange - it feels like every other song is regular singing-centric and the rest are screams. Not a fan. Much of the album has very mid-2000s rock production, for better or worse.

2/5

Couple good ones, rest were like terrible metal mixed with pop

I respect the inclusion of 2 Slipknot albums, even though the two preceding this one are much better! Remember the Slipknot pants with the masks for knees?

honestly and I know this is gonna sound crazy but I always thought i would be really good as the frontman for a rap metal band. I started early talks with some toronto music guys I know about the possibility of starting a rap metal band and everyone seemed interested. I can't rap but I can like yell things in rhythm which is I suppose what you need to do to make this kinda music. when I quit my job maybe ill start my rap metal band. anyways, i found the drumming on this album to be really impressive and i like that the album mimics a lot of hardcore song structure... it wuz better than i expected for sure.

drums gut aber sonst hat‘s mich nicht, ein paar songs catchy hooks aber das ist ja eig nicht das was einen daran catchen sollte lol

Yeah this is dreadful. What were they thinking adding another Slipknot album to the later edition of the book? It adds absolutely nothing that we didn't find out from listening to the first one. More pointlessly fast drumming and screaming. Seriously, fuck off.

Not for me Clive

Enjoyable album, loved it when it came out, and enjoyed it again listening today. But not really sure it's a must listen to album. Lots won't enjoy it, and I appreciate that. Not to everyone's tastes really.

More melodic than I remembered slipknot to be but this isn’t really for me. It’s like EMO metal, can’t believe they have 9 members either. No real standouts I’d return to

Slipknot album was aight. I really enjoyed the first track but by the end of the album I was exhausted. I might be too old for metal or just that level of drama

Not as bad as I thought. Not as good as anyone thinks. Entirely too long, but they do a better version of bad.

This was better than i expected. I enjoyed the occasional (more) melodic vocals that occasionally crept in. The drumming reminded me of Chaos AD era Igor Cavelerra, which is never a bad thing

Corey Taylor has an incredible voice and, when that is allowed to be shown off in a non-shouty way, like in “Dead Memories” and “Snuff”, then this album is tolerable. But, then, the shouting starts again, and it ruins any goodwill I may have had.

The first track was completely pointless, so that's not a good start. Germatria was going mostly fine until the screamy noodling guitar solo that seemed like it had been accidentally added to the wrong track appeared. I really struggle with the type of vocals this genre of music often relies on. My absolute preference is a relatively high pitched, melodic singer who can also can let out soaring notes or a cathartic scream every 5-6 songs. So the low pitched gravelly-voiced grunting is not my thing. I liked the clean vocals in Sulfer for example, but I imagine aficionados of the genre probably think they are the worst bit. Dead Memories, which entirely avoided the growling, was one of the parts I liked best but I understand is one of the least Slipknotty parts of a Slipknot album. I'm almost 50% of the way into this project, and this album marks the first time I've been so fascinated by a particular band member's playing, I've looked up a YouTube video (top comment made me laugh: "The drums had a cigarette after this."). Joey Jordison, you were an insane drummer. I really wasn't sure what to expect listening to this - Slipknot are one of those bands that it's very much expected that you should hate/take the piss out of, like Nickelback. But in actuality, I liked big chunks of this. It's not groundbreaking, and I'm never going to get past my issue with the vocals, but its getting a: 3/5 P.s. I did very much enjoy discovering that this album was produced by the guitarist from Ugly Kid Joe.

Strange pick from their discography. Iowa or Subliminal Verses would be more deserving of their place. Great drumming though. RIP Joey

Complete shite

The most important three letters in the band‘s name is “not”, as in do not listen to this trash heap of sound.

Nah.

All Hope Is Gone is one hell of a metal album, and I would argue it’s the album that turned Slipknot into a proper metal band. The incorporation of guitar solos, deeper and more introspective lyrics, different influences and musical styles, all led Slipknot to be less of “just a nu metal band” and more of an all encompassing group of artists. Also, I can’t end this little opinion piece without specifically calling out just how fire the drumming is on this record. Slipknot has always been known for their drums, but this is absolutely bananas in the best way.

I just couldn’t

I refuse to listen to ts i hate slipknot

This album could almost be good, but the screaming is so ridiculous and over the top it kills it.

Did not enjoy this. I wish I couldn’t understand the lyrics, either they’re overly melodramatic or just outright cringe. Also very cringe is the pop vocals on this, not great at all. The riffs are just metal metal, the most uninspired metal metal riffs and very overly compressed guitars. I did appreciate the attempts at some electronic sounds here and there, and the drummer does a pretty good job, but mostly this album is just either forgettable or cringy to me. 3/10

Absolutely fucking not.

Impressive instrumentalism but probably won’t listen again.

I missed Slipknot in the early 2000s. I was in my early to mid 20s, so in the prime demographic for this band and...I just did not pay attention to them. I'm not sure why. I think it was the masks, I always thought that stuff was kind of goofy. Totally aware of them, just not really interested in giving them a chance. And honestly...the fans were something I wanted no part of...goth kids, terrible clothes...angry about being...white and from the burbs or from a rural area? Okay...I can't relate. And I liked Metallica growing up, some Megadeth...but nu-metal? Not my thing. And I'm not gonna sit here and say...HOLY FUCK how'd I miss this music!?! I'm so glad I found it! But I am glad I found it...only because now I can really just focus on the music and ignore the image of the band. There's some good stuff here...Joey Jordison, I get it...great drummer. Corey Taylor, actually a pretty good singer. Would I listen to it again? Maybe while working out. It's pretty good...not life changing, life altering...but pretty good. Does it deserve a spot on this list? Hard for me to say...again, sometimes this list feels like...an all inclusive list of genres and needing representation across those genres and the fads of popular music. It almost feels like there's a Spice Girls album lurking here somewhere...not because they were great, but because they captured a moment in time. And I'm not saying that this band isn't bad or untalented...I just genuinely don't know how I feel about them belonging here. Anyway, 3 stars. Solid, fun to listen to. Not sure if I'd return to it.

loved it at 15 but feels kinda boring and purposeless now. snuff and child of burning time are great