All Hope Is Gone Songwriting Credits by Slipknot

All Hope Is Gone is the fourth studio album by Slipknot, released in August 2008 on Roadrunner Records and produced by David Bottrill, the band's first number-one debut on the Billboard 200 and the album that confirmed Slipknot as one of the most commercially consistent metal acts in the world. The band wrote all material; the album's 13 tracks include 'Psychosocial,' 'This Cold Black,' and 'Sulfur', the latter two reflecting the more melodic approach developed on Vol. 3 while 'Psychosocial' returned to the grinding intensity of the earlier catalog. 'Psychosocial' reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and has been certified double platinum as a standalone single; the album debuted at number one with 239,000 first-week sales and has been certified platinum in the United States. All Hope Is Gone was released during a period of significant internal tension, bassist Paul Gray's death from an accidental drug overdose in May 2010, eighteen months after the album's release, ended the band's original founding lineup, giving the album's themes of mortality and dissolution an unintended biographical weight. The album is the final recording of the complete original Slipknot lineup.