Slipknot - All Hope is Gone
Posted on August 26, 2008 at 11:20 pm by admin
To this day, heavy bands still go on with un-required ambient/noise intros. They’re still show up every now and then, and not limited to a certain style of heavy bands. I wish bands would stop doing that crap, because people these days either don’t add them to their iPod or cut that part off.
Beyond that, what the heck is up with some of these Slipknot fans these days? I hear so many of these kids who came from the nu-metal 90’s (and the early millennium) saying that the first 2 albums were great, but they weren’t into “Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses”. Hey guys, I do my best to give every form of music a try, and I even understand (even though I don’t condone) nu-metal, but I’ll dare to say that “Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses” was hard work and effort in a direction that some bands won’t dare touch, that being a creative one. Yeah, we all know how scary being different is…
You’d be surprised to hear that “All Hope is Gone” does go back to the 90’s, but more to the mid-paced groove metal bands influenced by thrash, and spliced it together with some radio moments (like the singing choruses). There are those times when the not-so-great parts of 90’s popular heavy music does rear it’s head, such as a few songs with rising vocal lines with semi-rapped vocals and some extra string slack. Not that all popular heavy music was bad back in the day, as some of us can recall some fun when we weren’t thinking too hard about those “alternative metal” bands.
For the most part, what you really get is a trip encompassing what was considered the “popular heavy” all the way through from ‘92 to ‘98, meaning you could slot this in right beside Alice In Chains, System Of A Down, and even the early Machine Head albums. The downsides? Even those bands had to fight through a decade that generally lacked some musical inspiration, and of course the songs made to be the sing-along radio singles. Oh yes, and god damned love songs…
Released August 26th, 2008
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