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SLIPKNOT GET CONTEMPLATIVE WITH NEW ALBUM ART

 Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 at 10:36am by

Wow. I really can’t remember the last time I saw a metal album where the cover was a photo of the band. I mean, we see pop acts do it all the time – but not metal bands.

The cover art for All Hope is Gone (above right), Slipknot’s latest, is actually the second time the band has been on the cover of one of their albums – the first being their self-titled Roadrunner debut (above left) back in the 20th century. But the decision works for them: few bands are more visually striking in and of themselves, and besides, it’s a beauty of a pic, spotlighting the band in the middle of a wheat field, beneath a all-encompassing gray sky… it’s like the dark side of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven.

All Hope is Gone gets released on Roadrunner on August 26 which, now that I look at my calendar, I realize is really not that far away. The band kicks off their trek with the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour, a.k.a. Slipknozzfest, today.

-AR

P.S. If you’ve never seen Days of Heaven, go to your Netflix cue and move it to the top now, please.

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  • http://www.mmacomments.com Eric

    Love the knot!

  • http://hookssobig.blogspot.com Wayne

    Looking forward to this one.

    OH, and I second the love for “Days of Heaven.” Easily one of the top 10 best looking/shot movies of all time.

  • Sammy

    A little phallic, no?

  • Erin Carter

    I’ve seen Days Of Thunder….does that count?

  • jonowev

    The reason that bands rarely appear on their album covers is that most of them are ugly! I mean who would buy an album with Lemmy from Motorhead on the cover? Nobody.

  • Danny

    REALLY looking forward to this one.

  • JTL

    @jonowev
    I would, and have. Ace of Spades, Bomber, No Sleep ’til Hammersmith & Overkill all have Lemmy on the cover.

  • Elync

    #Ahem#

    The Netflix thingy is spelled ‘queue’, but pronounced ‘cue’, so you got it half right.

  • Revrant

    Ah, it always cracks me up when you guys gush over Slipknot and go off bashing everything else remotely mainstream, and as someone else noted, everything you hate somehow fits under the “nu metal”, funny how everything you like doesn’t. =)

  • Kye

    ^^That’s cause nu metal isn’t real and it was mainly invented to group together a bunch of mainstreamish metal/rock bands that people either didn’t like or the media wanted to gush over, even though they could all be better described by a different genre

    And on the note of the actual article…I WANT THIS CD NOW DAMMIT

  • JTL

    Amen, Revrant

  • Robert

    You can’t expect blogs not to fall into the occasional hypocrisy hole.

  • demuredin

    I really don’t understand how the writers on this site bash every “Nu-metal” band in existence but gawks over slipknot…Their guitar work isn’t exactly spectacular, beginner guitar players could sit down and learn slipknot’s discography of songs fairly easily. And the reason i point out the difficulty of their music is because that’s the premise this site’s writers go off of to bash other “Nu-metal” bands. Just because a song is easy to play doesn’t make it bad. Half of the members in slipknot are talentless hacks that have no role in the band other than taking up space on stage and being a distraction to the music. Slipknot wouldn’t be where they are if it weren’t for the masks and the get up because once you take that away, what are you left with? A shitty Nu-metal band?

  • Dallas

    Demuredin:

    Vol 3 is NOT easy to play. Guitar players can’t get up and play Slipknot fairly easily. 1) They use effects that take a certain amount of originality 2) Vol 3 has solos that amateurs can’t play. 3} Slipknot aren’t talentless hacks. Please. back your shit up with real facts. The masks help but wouldn’t sustain for three records. People aren’t as stupid as you think they are.

  • Walker

    I still dont think this is the cover. It looks like the inside cd tray.

  • Revrant

    Ha, Amen Robert, Dallas just proved my point, so willing to leap right in to a Slipknot album and give it credit, but likely not having heard shit one Disturbed has done since The Sickness.

    Gotta love the world and the people in it for the laughs they give you, eh?

    Despite the idiocy therein, he’s right, go actually listen to some of what they’ve done since their debut, they’ve improved, though he IS exaggerating their prowess.

  • TJ

    Rev- not to pick a fight or anything, but what does Disturbed have to do with this post? I know you’re a fan (as you have defended them in other posts), but I don’t really see the connection with this.

    I know, I know, Slipknot and Disturbed both came out around the same time, and both have been lumped into the nu metal category. Just not seeing the connection.

  • http://metalmartyr.com Metalmartyr.com

    If you expect a blog writer to like everything you like and hate everything you hate your a retard, plain and simple.

    Secondly, people are so quick to bash Nu-Metal and often will enter a comment in a post just to bash it and half the previosly mentioned retards have never even heard more than 2 or 3 Slipknot songs. You’re the same people that get pissed when someone likes something you hates and throws a fit when they bash something you like.

    I don’t like the fucking backstreet boys and I would not expect their fans to have good things to say about a band that I like and I wouldn’t want them to. You’re the same fuck-jobs that have been convincing yourselves that St. Anger was a brilliant album and that Disturbed have not made the same album 4 times in a row…ooh-ah-ah-ah-ah…”shoot’em before he gets to the children!!!”

    Here’s your helmet and I’ver cleaned all the windows with dissinfectant, so lick away…all aboard the short bus.

  • Sammy

    Of course, Vince and Axl love Sevendust and its offspring, Dark New Day, and the former is as much a standard bearer of so-called “nu” metal as any band in existence (not including rap-nu-metal), and the latter is a moodier, more lead guitar-oriented, band with the same downtuned guitars and quiet-then-loud melodies. (Sidebar: I like DND and am just bored by 7D.)

    Really, I’ve said it way too many times before: “Nu” metal = late ’90s/early ’00s mainstream heavy rock that one dislikes.

  • bucketochicken

    “your a retard”

    Well-put.

  • http://metalmartyr.com Metalmartyr.com

    lol…I saw that as soon as I pushed the submit button I posted it…however I did get it right the second time so my track record is getting better. Public school education at it’s best.

    And who the fuck are you? The grammar police? At least I didn’t type it U R.

  • bucketochicken

    Yes. Yes I am. I just made Captain, actually.

    And yes, thanks for not using textmessagespeak.

  • http://metalmartyr.com Metalmartyr.com

    Congrats on the promotion. I’ll try to keep my grammatic felonies to a minimum around these parts.

  • Revrant

    TJ: They both started out as distinctly nu-metal, yet for absolutely no reason they make Disturbed their whipping boy without listening to shit one they’ve done since then, and Bow down to kiss Slipknot’s ass at every opportunity.

    That disconnect is annoying.

    Metalmartyr.com: Or you’re another one of those fucking idiots who licks up anything really angry and “hard” and hasn’t listened to a fucking thing Disturbed has done since The Sickness judging by your idiotic animal-noise reference(which they hardly do anymore, period), how about that? That sounds fitting.

  • demuredin

    What facts do you need? Listen to the music or search their tablature. The guitar playing is a joke. Anyone in their right mind knows how horrible the guitar solos are. Sounds like fucking Kerry King shredding random notes. Any jackass can pick up a guitar, wipe their ass with it and it would make the same sound.You want something hard to play? Look up Jason Becker, Satriani or the countless other musical geniuses that make slipknot look elementary. If you honestly think slipknot songs are hard to play on guitar, you must suck a huge dick at playing guitar, that’s all there is to it. And as far as people buying their albums…so what? People buy shitty pop albums but does that mean Brittany Spears has an ounce of talent just because her records sell? no, not at all. So Dallas, you get YOUR facts straight and quit talking out of your ass. It’s fine to like slipknot, but you can’t say they write difficult songs as far as guitar goes. They are nothing more than a mainstream “nu-metal” band that are where they are because of a Gimmick and Joey Jordisson, who is the only person in the band that has any talent worth displaying. I find it funny how they sound softer and softer with each release…wonder how many acoustic songs the next album will have?

  • demuredin

    by the way Dallas…

    “Guitar players can’t get up and play Slipknot fairly easily.”

    You just effectively bashed every guitarist in the world. Speak for yourself and not other people ;)

  • bucketochicken

    Still waiting for a definition of “nu-metal”…

  • demuredin

    google it, im sure you’ll find something ;)

  • http://metalmartyr.com Metalmartyr.com

    It’s ok, reverant…not everyone is going to dig what YOU like. I’ll admit, there are maybe a handful of songs from Disturbed that I like, but they all start to sound the same. I have never really like David Drammm..I don’t know how to spell his damn name. Anyway I don’t care for his voice and singing style. I’m not saying Disturbed is not talented. I’m just saying I’m really not into them. My musical preferences go beyond just metal.

    The bottom line is that Bloggers will praise the bands they like and shit on the ones they don’t. It’s their site and their opinion. You’re not going to change that.

  • Revrant

    Revrant, there’s such a thing as copy and paste, and I doubt you have really if you’re referencing shit way back at The Sickness. Though I guess real singing instead of screaming isn’t exactly favored these days with the metal community, so I see why you wouldn’t care for it. As for sounding the same, that argument bores me to tears, so I have nothing to say.

    I still find it hilarious they love shit like Slipknot and yet piss all over Disturbed though, that kills me.

  • TJ

    I still don’t understand why it’s hilarious to you Revrant. They aren’t the same band, so it makes sense that maybe they like one band and dislike the other.

    Yes, both bands can be lumped into the nu-metal genre, even though no one really knows what that is.

    But just because you like Slipknot doesn’t mean you also have to like Disturbed. The two bands are mutually exclusive.

    I happen to like Slipknot. I also happen to not like Disturbed. It’s just personal tastes, you know?

  • Revrant

    Yeah, but you’re not the header of a metal elitist site that bashes almost everything mainstream and not “hardcore”, they are, so it’s a contradiction when you have the same people they mock for liking Disturbed wholly dedicating themselves to being morbidly obese and finding really hardcore bitchin’ Slipknot shirts.

    They’re bands of the same generation, and Slipknot have remained largely nu metal, yet the site supposedly “hates” nu metal, and judging by the continual dislike of Slipknot by commentators, it’s not just me either.

    I guess it just cracks me up is all, such a glaring failure in their mantra.

  • BADDREAM

    I JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND….WHY DO PEOPLE PUT SO MUCH EFFORT TO LOOK UP A BAND THAT THEY DON’T EVEN LIKE, COME TO ONE OF THEIR BLOGS, AND LEAVE A NEGATIVE COMMENT THAT THE BAND IS NEVER GOING TO READ????