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All Hope Is Gone (2008)

Where the lyrics of All Hope Is Gone take you, and where it was really made.

The album was recorded in a farm studio in Jamaica, Iowa, far from the Los Angeles studios where the band had made its earlier records.

Key places

Recording in Jamaica, Iowa (2008)

Recording site Sound Farm Studio & Recording Environment — Recording of the album began here in February 2008 with producer Dave Fortman. It was the first album the band wrote and recorded in its home state of Iowa. The pin marks the town of Jamaica, Iowa, not the exact building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Mixing at Miloco Studios (2008)

Recording site Miloco Studios — The album was mixed here in London by Colin Richardson. The studio was Miloco's The Engine Room in the United Kingdom. The pin marks the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• All Hope Is Gone: fourth studio album by the American heavy metal band Slipknot
• Released August 26, 2008 by Roadrunner Records
• Standard CD edition and a special edition in a six-fold digipak
• Special edition: three bonus tracks, 40-page booklet, bonus DVD documentary on the recording
• Band's last studio album with the Iowa-era lineup featuring Paul Gray and Joey Jordison
• Paul Gray found dead in an Iowa hotel on May 24, 2010, almost two years after release
• Joey Jordison fired from the group in December 2013

Background

• Preparation began in 2007
• Promotional images and audio samples released on various websites before launch
• Considered the band's most eclectic album at release, blending elements of its previous three albums
• Lyrics center on anger, disaffection, obsession and the music industry
• More political focus in the lyrics than on earlier albums

Recording

• Recording began in February 2008 in Iowa, the band's home state
• Recorded at Sound Farm Studio in Jamaica, Iowa with producer Dave Fortman
• First album the band wrote and recorded in Iowa
• Gray said Los Angeles, where earlier albums were produced, had too many distractions
• All nine band members took part in writing; more than 30 songs were written
• Mixed by Colin Richardson at Miloco's The Engine Room studio in the United Kingdom

Cover

• Cover art and track listing released July 8, 2008

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Slipknot is an American heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, vocalist Anders Colsefni and bassist Paul Gray.
• The band is known for its masks, matching jumpsuits and numbered identities.
• Their self-titled debut album (1999) brought rapid fame, and Iowa (2001) made them more popular.

Members

• Shawn Crahan is the only founding member in the current lineup.
• Corey Taylor has been the lead vocalist since 1997.
• Mick Thomson and Jim Root are guitarists in the current lineup.
• Eloy Casagrande became the drummer in 2024.

Career

• The band released All Hope Is Gone (2008), which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200.
• Paul Gray died in 2010 from an accidental overdose.
• The seventh studio album, The End, So Far, was released in 2022.
• The band has sold about 30 million records worldwide.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Metacritic: generally favorable reviews, weighted average 68 out of 100 from 14 critic scores
• Entertainment Weekly (Marc Weingarten): B+, called it a metal assault-and-battery on the hypocrisies of the modern world
• Rock Sound (Darren Sadler): 9 out of 10, compared the sound with Stone Sour, Morbid Angel and Meshuggah
• IGN (Jim Kaz): 8.1 out of 10, said the move from nu metal toward more classic metal elements was the best career move the band could have made
• Blabbermouth.net (Ryan Ogle): 7.5 out of 10, said the album was by no means a bad release
• AllMusic (Stephen Erlewine): four out of five stars, praised the dense opening of Gematria (The Killing Name)
• The Guardian (Dan Martin): four out of five stars, called Gematria an astonishingly dense thrash work
• Total Guitar (Nick Cracknell): called it the band's heaviest and most aggressive work to date
• Rolling Stone (Chris Steffen): praised the percussive edge, especially on Gematria

Reappraisal

• Kerrang! 2009 reader poll: ranked 16th in The 50 Best Albums of the 21st Century

Records

• Billboard 200: number one, the first Slipknot album to top the chart, with 239,516 copies in its first week
• UK: number two, behind The Verve's album Forth
• Canada: sold over 20,000 copies in its first week and debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart
• Number one on nine record charts worldwide
• RIAA platinum certification on August 10, 2010 for over one million US shipments
• Platinum in the UK (BPI) and New Zealand (RMNZ); 2x Platinum in Canada
• Gold in Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Norway and Austria
• Psychosocial: MTV Video Music Awards nomination for Best Rock Video, and 51st Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance
• Total Guitar: listed among its 50 Best Guitar Albums of the Year in December 2008

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Copies sent to reviewers were pressed under the false name Rusty Cage to reduce the risk of leaks online.
• The special edition's bonus track Til We Die is one of the experimental tracks recorded during the writing sessions, and it was not included on the standard album.
• The special edition's bonus DVD is a documentary called Nine: The Making Of All Hope Is Gone, about 35 minutes long, made by Shawn Crahan.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

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