Slipknot: The Inside Story Of All Hope Is Gone
For nine years it had been the nine members of Slipknot against the world. They didn’t know it at the time of course, but the line-up that released the band’s explosive self-titled debut album in 1999 would see out their final one in 2008’s All Hope Is Gone. Within two years bassist Paul Gray would have passed away and drummer Joey Jordison would depart the band, shortly before they dragged themselves back from the brink with .5: The Gray Chapter. In that respect, you might think that All Hope Is Gone represents a more settled period for the band. But this is Slipknot we’re talking about, and it seems that they only ever operate from a position of barely controlled chaos. “I’d love to be doing anything other than Slipknot right now,” Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan told Kerrang! when we joi...
