All Hope Is Gone

No thanks

There might be the occasional day where a combination of distraction and laziness would keep me from turning this off before the end of the album. Today wasn’t the day.

There's nothing to see or listen to here.

Initial albums from Slipknot were good, this is shit

I Iiked them when I was 18. I'm not 18 anymore.

This album boils down to something like "Life is meaningless, I'm going to scream!" When I am feeling existential dread I at least like to listen to music that sounds pleasant. 2/10

Furious about this one. and it was LONG. I hated every second of it. Did NOT need to hear this before I died. Put me in such a bad mood. What weird and upsetting music this genre is

Thrash Metal. Nope.

About 25 years ago there appeared a whole generation of "nu metal" bands.. which were all terrible (apart from SoaD they were great) If you still care, don't ever let me knooooww.. this kind of singer-songwriter stuff is a bit too whiny for me.

GIT OFF MY LAWN

Not my thing at all.

Made it to track two, but only because they don't 'sing' on track one. What a load of rubbish.

Dnl

Only song I could listen to is “Snuff” which I really enjoy. Album just isn’t for me; maybe someday?

Perfect

Nah thanks bruh

I got halfway though the first song before the family told me to turn it off. Surprise I got that far!

sorry just not my kinda thing.

I went through a metal phase in high school. At the peak of nu-metal, I was donning JNCO jeans, bead bracelets, dyed hair, and a bass guitar. Slipknot became relevant during this time and, of course, I loved them. I have a core memory of tailgating during a high school football game, blaring the self-titled album out of my car as some jocks and preps kept yelling at me to turn it down. I still cringe when remembering that today. When I got assigned this album, I wondered: will Slipknot stand the test of time? I doubted it, but here we are to find out. The answer, it turns out, is that I'm not sure. This is Slipknot's 4th album, and it was released almost a decade after I was listening to them in my teens. While some of the classic Slipknot, noise metal sound was there (especially in the drums), this album ultimately fell flat for me . Even though I don't listen to much that's very heavy these days, I was disappointed in this one almost because it wasn't metal enough. The slower songs were just lame, and the heavy songs didn't pack enough of a punch. I dunno, I'm sure if I went back to the self-titled from 1999, I wouldn't love it, but I'm sure at least I'd understand why I thought it was great at the time.

Not the grooviest attempt at groove metal, but what really puts me off here is the vocals and the inane, clichéd lyrics. Disappointing.

scary

Not as unpleasant as I had expected - this seems like an attempt to move a bit closer to the mainstream, after the first couple of tracks most of the lyrics are sung rather than screamed. That said, it still isn't very good - it's loud but a bit dull. Not sure why it's made this list to be honest, I get that people like Slipknot but surely you should include an album of Slipknot doing Slipknot things rather than a pretty lacklustre attempt to go more poppy? 1/5, might've got 2 had it not been so bloody long.

Not for me. Simple as that. Tried it, Broccoli to my ears.

I made it to the start of Sulphur and bailed. I sort of admire the full-on assault of this, and it reminds me of my youthful Peel listening featuring Napalm Death, but it’s not for me. One song was fine, but then it was just relentless and monotonous.

Got bored reading the Wikipedia entry, let alone listening to this shit.

If I was in a situation where I was trying to psych myself up for a physical fight, or commit murder, this is the sort of music I'd choose to play. But otherwise, it's just a horrible, nasty noise and by track two I'd had enough already. Cool cover artwork mind you.

Why!!!!

This is truly a waste of time. Totally devoid of merit or interest.

I think one of these songs was about shopping for nice things to eat because his best friends were coming over for a tea party, but maybe I didn't hear it properly.

Konnte es nicht komplett zu Ende hören..

OK, I listened to the whole thing, and I have tried. But this album is just hot fucking garbage. It’s a bunch of terrible mid 2000s Pop hard rock bullshit.. But really it just sounds like every other crappy rock band that I only heard when I got to the movies early and had to listen to the stupid commercials and rock soundtrack that they advertise while you wait. It’s just boring.

i dont even want to waste the time on this one

There's too much nu metal on this list.

Dehär skitet fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuger maaaaannnn. Vem gjorde dehär. De e helt trash lyrics å de e trkigt som fan plus att de e freaking metal man cmoooooon vem gjorde de här + att de e över en timme långt likt på riiiktigt vem hitta på dehär ja vill bara tala :) Att ja lyssna denna skiva är det främsta beviset på min dedikation till denna lista

This is like their first album but less unique. Switch the score I gave that with ”Slippery When Wet” and it should balance out

Tråkigt, pinsamt, lyricsen suger legit ass. Musik fär små barn.

didn’t listen. didn’t need to.

hope is gone :/

There's something sonically about Slipknot that is displeasing to my ear. I'm unsure if it's the repetitive guitar riffs, Corey Taylor screaming, or some combination of the two. It's quite a shame, because I know Corey Taylor is capable of much more, but I just don't find this very listenable.

There are elements here that I appreciate in other metal subgenres, but this is a little too nu metal.

All hope has gone. It's not a euphemism. I'm not sure who is more disappointed, those who want the mental start throughout or those that discover the more laid-back tunes later. Unpleasant either way tbh. Just give me some music.

Wyjce znane z zamaskowania, przed przesluchaniem albumu nie wiedzialem o nich nic wiecej, a po przesluchaniu wiem, ze swoim brakiem wiedzy nie cierpialem, banda hamerykanska, dosc potezna, bo az 9 czlonkow, all hope is gone to ich czwarty studyjny krazek, ktorym otworzyli sobie droge do mainstreamowego wycia, dziedziny muzyki ktora pozostaje dla mnie wieczna zagadka, nie potrafie sie wczuc w jej przekaz, nie daje mi ona myslec, a raczej bombarduje ogromem tego co sie dzieje instrumentalnie i doslownie wykrzykuje mi ze sluchawek liryki typu uga buga cos tam cos tam, ktore brzmia jakby ich targetem byl jakis konkretny odbiorca, ktory bedzie tylko przytakiwal kontentowi bez zadnej refleksji nad nim, tak wyglada wiekszosc trakow, ale jednak nie wszystkie, bo nie jest to typowe metalowe granie lat 80 i 90, nie tylko ze wzgledu na rocznik 2k08, ale pewnie przez tak spory sklad jest tutaj miejsce na eksperymenty o ktorym pradziadom metalu by sie nie snilo, pomimo tego, ze wiekszosc wycia zalicza sie dla mnie pod jeden wspolny gatunek, to tutaj trzeba oddac zespolowi honor, ze dywersyfikuje on swoje wycie, wiec bedzie nu, groove, trasz, czy death, a pomimo swojej ignorancji czuc to na nagraniu, ktore uzywa zarowno ostrego szarpania elektrykami polaczonego z niemozliwe szybkimi drumowaniami, zeby zaraz zaskoczyc akustykiem, czy jakas sztuczka elektroniczna, bo wystepuje tu zarowno samplowanie jak i klawisze, z tego co widze w creditsach to album ma jeden wokal glowny i cztery wspierajace, ale nie jestem w stanie ogarnac jak pan o numerze 8 potrafi przechodzic kolejne kregi wycia, o wokalach wspierajacych nawet nie warto wspominac, bo z glebokich partii piekielnych takie potepione glosy mozna jedynie wydobyc, wiec godzinny odsluch od dawna nie byl az tak meczacy i serwujacy obawy o stan bebenkow usznych przez te wahania glosniosci pomiedzy bardziej a mniej wyjcowymi utworami, z tych 15 utworow z trudem, ale udalo sie wybrac na plejke gehenne, wiec bardziej nu metalowe oblicze albumu, ktore najmniej obraza moje gusta muzyczne z tego pakietu

First song isn’t that good to be honest. Just a weird effect on talking. 2/10 Snuff is the only semi-acceptable song on the album imo, I just don’t like their style.

Couldn't do it to myself

Struggled to get through it. Definitely not my vibe, too intense

Terrible lyricism to the point where it sounds like a parody, but it's being played straight. Every song sounds the same as well.

Really, but really, far from anything I can tolerate

This is not a good album. The drums are good. Actually, the drums are really good, so good that it stands out as pretty much the only thing on the album I like. Snuff is okay, I guess. The rest can be relegated to a dumpster fire. It's one of those albums that you have to try to figure out what posessed the writer to include on this list.

Thinking of the movie suite Dune and an episode that never seems to end 😘

I really really do not dig it

Not for me.

Not in my 1001 records to listen to before I die I am afraid 'Til We Die' the only thing of any merit for me on this. Isn't and won't ever be in my collection sorry to say.

Not for me

dude, what was that? like it was so whiny, those lyrics sounded like they were written by an edgy 15 year old and everything else about it was so poor in execution 2/10

Mischung aus zu hart und zu barock

Nope

My first reaction to this when it came up was ugh. I'm an 80's / 90's metal/thrash kid. The early 00's rehashing of punk and metal was not good in my view. BUT, I went into this album intending to give it a fair listen. My opinion still hasn't changed. While technically skilled, the rythm section carries this album with the standard metal fills. The mix between sing/yelling/crooning doesn't play well to me.

Absolute shit

Not my cup of tea, unfortunately.

no

Nothing against metal but this is fairly boring and repetitive. Would have given it a 2 but took a point off for them including a rubbish ballad near the end.

jfc, seriously.. total garbage

Good guitar work but can't listen to the shouting. Got through 2 tracks.

I'm not sure why this is considered an album anyone needs to listen to before they die. It's Nu-metal :/ I prefer more artistic screaming.

I really tried on this one. Just not my scene at all. Maybe listening to Slipknot while stressed at work was also a bad plan overall

I didn't know they did ballads. Some good bits but overall an ordeal

nope

i really do not like them

No. Fuck slipknot

holy shit this is awful. starting to doubt this project, I don't think the people who chose these albums have a clue. I mean, slipknot???

Very very very unpleasent listening. I could barely listen to one song. Skipped through some more to give it a fair chance but yeah it really is just noisy to me, 0/5 stars.

that whisper shouting is not for me

Didnt listen

Not my type of music

scary ... scary