3: (The Subliminal Verses)", which is also called "All Hope Is Gone". Jordison revealed that "All Hope Is Gone" is a true collaborative effort and was one of the final songs recorded for the band's follow-up to 2004's "Vol. Sometimes you have to face the grotesque to bring about something amazing." It's a song about the world at stake: all the situations at hand, be it personal or worldly, and trying to turn things into a positive. "The song, music and theme speak for itself. " 'All Hope Is Gone' is a classic-style SLIPKNOT track pure and simple, but this fucker is jacked up a few thousand volts!" drummer Joey Jordison told Kerrang! magazine. The title cut of the band's new album will be downloadable for a period of 24 hours ending at midnight EST tonight, then will be available as a download single from digital retailers like iTunes and Napster on June 23. 3 never was despite Rubin's flourishes, but All Hope Is Gone as a whole winds up being as bleak and unforgiving as its title.SLIPKNOT has made its brand new track "All Hope Is Gone" available for free download via the Roadrunner Records web site (free sign-up required). One more power ballad like this would be enough to derail the album, turning it into the crossover Vol. Nowhere is this latent tendency for macho schmaltz more evident than on "Snuff," a stab at a power ballad that sounds disarmingly close to Nickelback, a bewildering incongruity that feels even stranger given the album's otherwise merciless attack. So effective is this onslaught that when things do get a little softer a little later on, the album threatens to collapse like a soufflé, but that's only because the slower moments emphasize the group's odd tendency to sound like anonymous active rock when they untwist their rhythms and lay off on the double bass drums. Certainly, the album gets off to a throttling start with "Gematria," a cluster of cacophony and for the longest time on All Hope it seems as if Slipknot will never let up on this pressure, as this is an onslaught of densely dark intricate riffs. Of course, such respect is hardly granted to bands that wear monster maggot masks, so Slipknot's retreat to ugliness on their fourth album - a move telegraphed heavily by the cheery title All Hope Is Gone - isn't entirely surprising, nor is it unwelcome as this isn't a regression, it's more or less a consolidation of strengths. 3: The Subliminal Verses, giving the nonet just the slightest hint of broader horizons beyond their relentless aggression - not enough for the band to crossover, but perhaps enough to earn grudging respect from listeners outside of metalheads. They're still wearing disguises but they have shed producer Rick Rubin, the metal legend who produced 2004's Vol. There comes a time in every band's life where they take off the masks and grow up - then again, maybe not, as Slipknot have managed to dig deeper without ever shedding their grotesque veils.
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