Slipknot return with their fourth studio album, and it's safe to say, the hope is nowhere near gone.
Taking their experimenting one step further, Slipknot are keeping their heavy and scary approach but mixing in softer elements, acoustic guitars and cleaner singing that could be taken straight from Stone Sour (singer Corey Talor sing in both bands, after all). It's a bold move, and frowned upon by many, but I like it; it's not the constant pounding, your ears won't bleed as much as before giving you more time to enjoy the music. You'll still feel the need to jump around, however.
The special edition comes packed with three bonus tracks and a DVD. One of the new tracks is a remix of Vermillion pt.2 that appeared on Volume 3: (The Subliminal Verses). While not bringing any new material to the Vermillion "saga", it brings new depth to it; it's a great remix.
The DVD features a 35 minute long documentary called "Nine: The making of All Hope IS Gone". It contains shots of the band members playing their instruments or singing mixed with some behind the scenes-clips of the video to the title track. There's however no interviews and hardly no spoken words, which I would have found more interrresting. I felt like I could have done well without this extra disk, but being a sucker for digipacks I couldn't pass it up. ;-]
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