SLIPKNOT will reveal their new masks to the world at one minute past midnight EST on Tuesday, July 1 via Spinner.com.

The Grammy award-winning nine-piece has revealed new masks around the release of each of its studio albums, and the group's new CD, "All Hope Is Gone", is no exception.

For 24 hours starting on July 1 you will be able to get your first look at all new pictures of SLIPKNOT exclusively at Spinner.com. The site will also feature a retrospective showing each member's masks throughout the years.

Vitamin Records has set an August 12 release date for the SLIPKNOT tribute album titled "The Scorched Earth Orchestra Performs Slipknot". A description of the CD reads as follows:

"SLIPKNOT come on like an a-bomb; nine men pummeling out the most brutal, banging sound. Their fanbase demand the most uncompromising music. That spirit fuels THE SCORCHED EARTH ORCHESTRA. They expand on SLIPKNOT's marching-band-from-hell framework. Booming percussion; in-your-face horns; string sections that rip at your flesh; all of these make this a tribute that maggots will dig like the grave.

"The Scorched Earth Orchestra Performs Slipknot" track listing:

01. Wait and Bleed
02. Surfacing
03. Left Behind
04. The Shape
05. My Plague
06. Iowa
07. Vermillion
08. Duality
09. The Nameless
10. Danger, Keep Away

Hard rock enigma SlipKnoT has posted the 9th teaser photograph from a recent photo shoot on the splash page of its web site. Check out this teaser picture here:

Hear the new Slipknot track "Psychosocial" at Hot Topic first! Starting this Sunday 6/29 stop by any Hot Topic store to hear the new Slipknot track "Psychosocial." The song will be played every hour on the hour. If you can't make it out to Hot Topic, you can stream "Psychosocial" on-demand at www.ClearChannelMusic.com starting July 1st.

SLIPKNOT has tapped Colin Richardson (MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, NAPALM DEATH) to mix its fourth label album titled "All Hope is Gone". Due on August 26 via Roadrunner Records, the disc was recorded with producer Dave Fortman (EVANESCENCE, MUDVAYNE) at a studio near the band's hometown of Des Moines, Iowa.

A short audio sample of the new SLIPKNOT singer "Psychosocial" is available for streaming below.

RollingStone.com has posted a short review of six unmastered songs from SLIPKNOT's forthcoming album, "All Hope Is Gone", due on August 26 via Roadrunner Records:

"The album — the first Slipknot record to be recorded in the band’s home state — kicks off with a spoken word intro, as frontman Corey Taylor gradually grows more and more agitated, snarling, “Where are your gods and politicians?” and “You rage for no reason because to have no reason.” The first full song, “Gematria,” features twin guitar solos from Mick Thompson and Jim Root as Taylor repeatedly asks, “What if God doesn’t care?” while the band’s multiple percussionists generate a din that’s more suffocating than ever. Taylor repeatedly invokes America on the lengthy track, and his thoughts aren’t especially ambiguous.

“Sulfur,” featuring the album’s first dose of clean singing, is in the vein of Taylor and Root’s other band, Stone Sour. “Psychosocial” (yes, they do find a way to include the song title in the lyrics) slows down the tempo to bludgeon with a steady, pounding groove instead of all-out thrash in a manner reminiscent of the band’s more slow-burning but still malicious second album, Iowa. That track is capped off with a time-signature shattering guitar/drum breakdown that will leave the best air-instrumentalists stumped. “Dead Memories” contains a gentle piano bridge that lasts just long enough to be torn apart by Joey Jordison’s thundering drums; Jordison is the early frontrunner for the album’s MVP, especially with his black metal-inspired, blastbeat-heavy performance on the title track.

“Snuff,” the most melodic of the six songs previewed, could be the missing second half of “Circle” from Vol. 3, the band’s first full-on acoustic number. Taylor has said he turned to the outside world for lyrical inspiration this time, but “Snuff” finds him looking decidedly inward, singing, “My heart is just too dark to care” and “My smile was taken long ago” over strummed chords."

The Pulse of Radio reports: SLIPKNOT has confirmed that its fourth major label album is titled "All Hope is Gone" and will be released on August 26. The disc was recorded at a studio near the band's hometown of Des Moines, Iowa. A first single called "Psychosocial" will make its way to radio stations on June 30 and be available online July 1. Percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan told The Pulse of Radio everything he could about the track. "One thing I can feel is like that song has got a lot of, like, you know, I would say social anxiety," he said. "It's got a real good tempo and it's really, you know, today. It's really fun and it's different. I think most of the stuff that we have is different."

SLIPKNOT has made its brand new track "All Hope Is Gone" available for free download via the Roadrunner Records web site (free sign-up required). The title cut of the band's new album will be downloadable for a period of 24 hours ending at midnight EST tonight, then will be available as a download single from digital retailers like iTunes and Napster on June 23.

"'All Hope Is Gone' is a classic-style SLIPKNOT track pure and simple, but this fucker is jacked up a few thousand volts!" drummer Joey Jordison told Kerrang! magazine. "The song, music and theme speak for itself. It's a song about the world at stake: all the situations at hand, be it personal or worldly, and trying to turn things into a positive. Sometimes you have to face the grotesque to bring about something amazing."

Jordison revealed that "All Hope Is Gone" is a true collaborative effort and was one of the final songs recorded for the band's follow-up to 2004's "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)", which is also called "All Hope Is Gone".

"I actually demoed this song alone and didn't know what would come of it as we were nearing the end of the album," he said. "I was hoping it would make it. I knew it would, once everyone spewed their venom upon it.

"A lot of the grind riffs for the verses changed into riffs Paul [Gray, bassist] had years ago, way before SLIPKNOT," he added. "Funny how things won't die. Mick [Thomson, guitarist] came in and fucking set fire to the track and Jim [Root, guitarist] followed as well. Once Corey [Taylor, frontman] put his fucking vocals on it, that was it, man. That guy's voice and conviction could sell narcotics to a nun."