10 Albums That Fell Apart During Production

Every great Slipknot album is usually born out of a strong sense of pain. Though the songs speak for themselves as some of the most brutal tracks ever put to tape, it always has to be the right occasion to get something this feral, whether that's working themselves down to the bone on Iowa or paying tribute to their brother on .5 The Gray Chapter. Slipknot didn't have too many things to worry about in the mid '00s though, and All Hope is Gone was the one time where they may have been playing things too safe.

While this is the album that gave them some of their biggest hits on radio like Psychosocial and Snuff, the band's decision to make the record at home ended up being a big mistake, with everyone being a little too comfortable at the studio. When asked about the sessions, most of the band don't really remember how the sessions even went down, saying that their producer could never get all of them together in the same room to jam during the recording and Joey Jordison having to record almost all of the drum tracks completely by himself.

There's definitely that blistering energy on songs like Gematria and the title track, but this feels less like a proper Slipknot album and closer to a knockoff version of what Slipknot is supposed to be. The classics are still here in some capacity...you just might have to dig a little deeper to get to the really good stuff.