SLIPKNOT GET CONTEMPLATIVE WITH NEW ALBUM ART

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.