Slipknot Top the Album Chart in a Photo Finish

Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone won one of the closest races in Billboard album history as the metal band’s fourth album beat out rapper the Game’s LAX by just over 1,000 copies. Slipknot have never had an album top the charts. (Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses, the band’s 2004 collection, got closest, climbing to No. 2.) But spurred by the dynamic lead single “Psychosocial” and the band’s headlining stint at this summer’s Rockstar Mayhem metal festival – which featured a plane flying overhead with a large All Hope Is Gone banner trailing behind it – Slipknot are finally in the winner’s circle.

• Read my review of Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone

Photo courtesy Roadrunner.