Album Rating: 3.0

Negative One rages pretty hard but there's nothing too distinctive about this album. Still a step-up (just) from AHIG imo.



Also that bit where Corey's talking about crazy motherfuckers or something is embarassingly bad.

Album Rating: 2.5

oh Skeptic? yeah it's pretty embarrassing

cut cut cut me up

and fuck fuck fuck me up

Album Rating: 2.5

no no no, it's:



FACK FACK FACK ME UP

Who buys edited music anymore? This isn't '99.

Album Rating: 2.0

I agree he is on form, but there is far too many stone sour cleans that make it my problem

Album Rating: 2.0

CUT CUT CUT ME UP AND FAAACK FAAACK FAAACK ME UP



really love the riff that comes after that part

Album Rating: 2.0

it's too prog imo

Yeah, they wank way too much here

Album Rating: 2.5

they need to take things back to basics agreed

Album Rating: 2.0

I enjoy the primitive sound they had in Vol 3

Album Rating: 3.5

This rules. Hard. Light years ahead of All Hope is Gone, and even a big step up in comparison to Vol 3. Don't get the Sputnik hate for this one; everywhere but Sputnik seems to like it just fine. Go figure.

Album Rating: 2.0

"everywhere but Sputnik seems to like it just fine"



Where have you even looked? I know this has gotten some unreal praise from magazines but that doesn't surprise me

Album Rating: 2.0

idk why but something tells me at least one person in slipknot boned the skeleton chick on the cover in costume.

Album Rating: 2.5

If you're going by mags like kerrang, metalhammer, revolver etc. it doesn't really mean anything since they're known to praise most mainstream metal unashamedly.

it has a 77 on metacritic, higher than any of their other albums

it was acclaimed pretty well everywhere except here yeah, probably just because Arcade got to it first and everyone hiveminded their way to a 3.2 average

Album Rating: 3.5

was acclaimed pretty well everywhere except here yeah, probably just because Arcade got to it first and everyone hiveminded their way to a 3.2 average"



Bingo.



And no, I'm not going off BS sources like Kerrang; Hell, I don't think I've ever read a Kerrang article in my life. The fact of the matter is that the majority of the metal community and the Slipknot fanbase received this album quite warmly. Granted, Sputnik has never been too mind to 'Knot—the fact that their self-titled is at a 3.6 is a travesty. There's no way this one is a 3.2 either, as Skeptic and The One That Kills Us All are the only songs on here that I don't love, and they're still pretty damn solid. But oh well; Sputnik is as Sputnik does.

these guys kicked ass tonight in Montreal

and yea this deserves at least a 3.5 average

Album Rating: 3.0

lech, negative one, and sarcastrophe are the only really good songs here