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Album Review: Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone

upcoming festivals featuring Slipknot

Mayhem Festival 2012 USA (Various Locations) Jun 30, 2012
Heavy MTL 2012 Montreal, Quebec (Parc Jean Drapeau) Aug 11, 2012
Heavy T.O. 2012 Toronto, Ontario (Downsview Park) Aug 11, 2012

Articles about Slipknot

Slipknot celebrates 10th anniversary with deluxe release

By David Buchanan on July 28th, 2009

Ergo after years of being overshadowed by Subliminal Verses and most recently All Hope Is Gone, the first of Slipknot’s two masterpieces is being let out as a 10th anniversary deluxe edition.

YouTube Live: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor takes on Van Halen

By Laina Dawes on April 29th, 2009

Skipknot’s frontman Corey Taylor loves to perform. Despite making a pretty good living as one of the nine, middle-aged men who don horror masks and pander to  legions of disaffected, pimply teenagers, he will sing anywhere and for anyone. Not that it’s a bad thing, ’cause Taylor can really sing. With a healthy dose of charisma and a dash of narcissism – which in his profession, coupled with the dismal and competitive state of the music industry, aren’t bad [...]

Slipknot, Coheed, and Trivium take the hope out of Greensboro, NC (2/9)

By David Buchanan on February 11th, 2009

There are things that come standard when you attend Slipknot concerts, and this is no exception. With Roadrunner Records label mates Coheed & Cambria and Trivium in tow, the latest incarnation of the All Hope Is Gone tour has again set itself apart as the hottest traveling metal show around. During this particular tour, our [...]

Slipknot tours, frontman plans solo effort

By David Buchanan on January 15th, 2009

With Slipknot‘s full-fledged North American tour set to begin in less than a week, news is abound concerning frontman Corey Taylor’s plans following. Many would assume that constitutes another jam with popular side project Stone Sour, but it turns out our favorite mainstream mosher has a different trick up his straitjacket sleeve. News recently broke [...]

Album Review: Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone

By David Buchanan on September 1st, 2008

One of the first to implement masked personalities as a mainstay in the rock category (save for bands such as GWAR and Mushroomhead), Iowa rockers Slipknot drilled Des Moines into the topography of thrash and metal. This 9-piece orchestrated freak show was destined to lead a group of real maggots – but that was 1999. [...]

A Day at Mayhem: Part III (The Mainstage)

By David Buchanan on August 8th, 2008

We now present the third and final part of David Buchanan’s “Day at Mayhem”. Between the early morning fun and the sights and sounds of the side-stage, the Virginia Beach stop of the first annual Mayhem Festival had already proved to be quite the memorable experience. But with darkness filling the Verizon Beach Amphitheater, signaling [...]

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