For the few Slipknot fans 'round here:


SLIPKNOT has tapped Colin Richardson (MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, NAPALM DEATH) to mix its fourth label album titled "All Hope is Gone". Due on August 26 via Roadrunner Records, the disc was recorded with producer Dave Fortman (EVANESCENCE, MUDVAYNE) at a studio near the band's hometown of Des Moines, Iowa.

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor said in a press release about the new CD, "Every album we have made is a statement about that space in time. I think this era is the most mature, most beautiful and the most powerful. We have made an album that will show the road behind, the road ahead, and where we are as men. I think it's the best thing I've ever made."

The last SLIPKNOT studio album, "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)", arrived in 2004 and sold more than a million copies in the U.S.

SLIPKNOT will co-headline the Rockstar Energy Mayhem tour this summer with DISTURBED. The trek, which also features DRAGONFORCE, MASTODON, MACHINE HEAD and others, kicks off on July 9 in Seattle


also


Yesterday, the members of Slipknot unveiled their new masks

in an exclusive partnership with AOL Music. This highly anticipated debut kick-starts the launch of SLIPKNOT's new album, "All Hope Is Gone". Masks are an integral part of the band's identity and to reflect this point, AOL Music's Spinner.com is currently hosting a retrospective photo gallery of SLIPKNOT masks throughout the band's career, spanning all three previous albums and including the most recent controversial "Purgatory Masks."

New single Psycosocial, here

Sounds like a cross between the last 2 albums. I dig.

@ the crown of thorns and hellraiser pinhead masks

I thought the thorns were a nice touch

Slipknot just sucks.

I liked the crown of thorns as well.

Joey Jordison is a pretty decent drummer.

i'll be checking it out.

I've heard both "Psychosocial" and the title track and I think I like the latter a little more at the moment.

Dude is insane.

No. John Longstreth, Flo Mournier, Marco Pitruzella, Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka, etc are insane. Drummers that play, you know, real music.

Hi I'm buff and I just want to let you know I listen to obscure stuff, you know, real stuff.

I've already heard Mushroomhead's last album so I already know what this is going to sound like.

buff its okay to like Slipknot just because they are played on the radio

I don't, but it is okay to!

I don't actually listen to music, I just read lists and name drop. And devour. Or something.

And yet you keep posting in this thread

I couldn't get into the last one too much, but Iowa still kicks ass.

i could never really get into much of their stuff, but the title track from Iowa is one awesome song.

Was the last one too melodic for you?

I loved the last album, other than the last 2 songs on it. And I still listen to Iowa when I'm in a pissed-off mood. So I'm really looking forward to this album.