Since releasing their self titled album in 1999, Slipknot have enjoyed phenomenal success despite making some of the most uncommercial and controversial music heard this decade. Multiple sold out tours, platinum awards for all releases, instores attended by 1000’s of Maggots and even riot police on horseback.

Despite being at the top of the metal pile for nearly a decade now, Slipknot are still a mystery. Their latest album – All Hope Is Gone – is trademark Slipknot: a beguiling and menacing cacophony of fury and heavy melodies that is nothing what it appears on the surface.

Despite what many would regard as mainstream success, Slipknot have not taken their foot off the gas for even a second. Continuing to push at the edges of the genre as they did on Volume 3 – The Subliminal Verses, All Hope Is Gone is dark, aggressive and compelling, vocalist Corey Taylor displaying a vocal versatility that he is unafraid to put on display. Musically, All Hope Is Gone is an electrical charge riffage, beats and scratching that will send your neurons and synapses off involuntarily, like it or not.

Slipknot is real… and there is nothing you can do to stop them.