Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Frontman Corey Taylor still sounds like he's vomiting bile as he sings and raps about tussling with life's indignities and throws in the occasional non-sequitur one-liner as his eight bandmates stay the course with a purposely ungodly racket of tribal percussion, skull-rattling drums and power-drill guitar riffs." Alternative Press - "Slipknot matter because most of their colleagues have taken to phoning it in. Existentialism just got uglier -- and a lot more honest." NME (Magazine) - "[A]n astonishing record: a roaring, horrifying delve into the guts of the band's revulsion, a primal scream of endlessly inventive extreme metal and searing misanthropy." Clash (Magazine) - "With these newly discovered textures of experimentation, they've managed to make their well-established musical prowess shine even brighter. The masked legends of nu-metal continue to prevail."