Most bands, no matter who they are, end up putting out a record somewhere along the line that doesn’t quite hit the mark. When it comes to Slipknot, that record is All Hope Is Gone.

Slipknot’s second major label release, which turns 18 in a few weeks, is like nothing else the band has released its whole career. It wasn’t back in 2001 and it still isn’t now.

The band themselves only see it as a demo. Some of the songs re-appeared in a more refined form on later albums. Only half the Slipknot line-up we know and love actually played on it.