All Hope Is Gone is the fourth studio album by Slipknot, released on August 26, 2008 by Roadrunner Records. The album was published in two versions: the standard album in a CD case and a special edition packaged in a six-fold digipak containing three bonus tracks, a 40 page booklet, and a bonus DVD with a documentary of the album’s recording. With a runtime of 57 minutes and 57 seconds, it is Slipknot‘s second-shortest studio album behind 2022’s The End, So Far. It is also the band’s final studio album to feature the Iowa-era lineup with two longtime members: bassist and founding member Paul Gray, who was found dead in an Iowa hotel on May 24, 2010, almost two years after the album’s release, and drummer Joey Jordison, who left the group in December 2013.
Slipknot promoted All Hope Is Gone on a world tour and at the Mayhem Festival. Generally well received by critics, the album reached the top position on nine record charts worldwide, including the Billboard 200, the first Slipknot album to do so. It was certified platinum by the RIAA on August 10, 2010 for shipments in excess of 1,000,000 albums in the United States.
Tracklist:
- execute. (Taylor, Crahan)
- Gematria (The Killing Name)
- Sulfur (Jordison, Root)
- Psychosocial (Jordison, Gray, Taylor)
- Dead Memories (Taylor)
- Vendetta
- Butcher’s Hook
- Gehenna (Gray)
- This Cold Black
- Wherein Lies Continue
- Snuff (Taylor)
- All Hope Is Gone
Credits:
Production
Dave Fortman: producer
Jeremy Parker: engineering
Colin Richardson: mixer
Matt Hyde: mix engineering
Oli Wright: assistant engineering
Ted Jensen: mastering
Monte Conner: A&R
Cory Brennan: management
Jaison John: management assistant
Shawn Crahan: art direction, DVD director
Rick Roskin: US booking agent
John Jackson: international booking agent
Rob Shore: business management
P. R. Brown: photography, design
Chris Vrenna: additional production
Clint Walsh: additional production
Matt Sepanic: producer
Bionic Mastering: DVD authoring
Slipknot:
(#8) Corey Taylor: vocals, acoustic guitar on “Snuff”
(#7) Mick Thomson: guitars
(#6) Shawn “Clown” Crahan: percussion, backing vocals, drums on “Vermilion Pt. 2” (Bloodstone mix) and “‘Til We Die”
(#5) Craig “133” Jones: samples, media, keyboards
(#4) Jim Root: guitars
(#3) Chris Fehn: percussion, backing vocals
(#2) Paul Gray: bass, backing vocals
(#1) Joey Jordison: drums
(#0) Sid Wilson: turntables, keyboards
