Dave Bertram of Access: Rock recently conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor in Stockholm, Sweden about “House Of Gold And Bones – Part 1″, the first half of STONE SOUR‘s two-disc concept album.
“House Of Gold And Bones – Part 1″ arrived on October 23. The second half will come out next year, probably in May.
Corey Taylor told The Pulse Of Radio that the project has turned out even better than he had hoped. “It’s some of the best work we’ve ever done,” he said. “Song-wise, guitar-wise, performance-wise, I mean, everything. It’s so good. It’s come out so much better than I thought it was going to. It’s surpassed all of our expectations. It’s really, really good.”
Speaking to Rolling Stone about the making of the project, Taylor said, “Even with the time constraints we had, we basically recorded two albums in the time it takes to record one. So we were doing double-duty every day. I was tracking two songs vocally a day just to keep us on a deadline and it really pushed us to strive for excellence.”
The singer also said that the band wanted to “really try and go for (a) natural vibe on this without using a ton of samples and really try to differentiate us from everybody else out there . . . we wanted to really capture a unique sound.”
STONE SOUR has tapped Johny Chow as its live bassist for the band’s tour behind “House Of Gold And Bones”. Chow has formerly played with metal acts SOULFLY, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY and FIREBALL MINISTRY, and replaces Shawn Economaki, who bowed out of the band earlier this year for personal reasons.
According to an update from PAINFACE – featuring original SLIPKNOT singer Anders Colsefni – have been confirmed to support STONE SOUR in Des Moines, Iowa at Wooly’s. Stone Sour is, of course, fronted by Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor.
Colsefni appeared on Slipknot’s 1996 independently released debut Mate Feed Kill Repeat, which the band now refers to as a demo. He left the band in 1997 and was replaced by Taylor.
In other news, Colsefni makes a guest appearance on Des Moines-based GREEN DEATH’s new EP, Dawn Of Death. It will be issued on October 30th as a digital only release through Amazon, CDbaby and iTunes.
Go to this location for information on Painface. Check out Mate Feed Kill Repeat in its entirety below:
SLIPKNOT are on hiatus, according to frontman Corey Taylor (STONE SOUR).
Artisan News Service reports: “Corey Taylor has a million things going on with Stone Sour, comic books, movies, books and his film company with Clown, and he said that Slipknot is on hiatus, while Clown said that fans wouldn’t want an album from them unless it comes from a real place.”
To call Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor something of a tattoo enthusiast would be putting it mildly – the guy’s practically covered in ink. In the interview clip below, from the Swedish site MetroSverige, he discusses the meaning behind some of his latest, and favorite, tattoos. Watch now!
Amp Rock TV has created a video for its “The Words” project, featuring Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor reciting the lyrics to “Absolute Zero,” the first single from the band’s upcoming album House of Gold & Bones Part 1. Check it out below!
STONE SOUR will film a video for the songs “Gone Sovereign” and “Absolute Zero” on Wednesday, September 26 in the band’s hometown of Des Moines, Iowa. Helming the clip will be director Paul R. Brown, who has previously worked with SLIPKNOT, MÖTLEY CRÜE, KORN, GODSMACK and AVENGED SEVENFOLD.
The official lyric video for “Gone Sovereign” and “Absolute Zero” can be seen below. Both tracks are taken from “House Of Gold And Bones – Part 1″, the first half of STONE SOUR‘s upcoming two-disc concept album. The first CD arrives on October 23, while the second half will come out next year, probably in May. Singer Corey Taylor told The Pulse Of Radio that the project has turned out even better than he had hoped. “It’s some of the best work we’ve ever done,” he said. “Song-wise, guitar-wise, performance-wise, I mean, everything. It’s so good. It’s come out so much better than I thought it was going to. It’s surpassed all of our expectations. It’s really, really good.”
Speaking to Rolling Stone about the making of the project, Taylor said, “Even with the time constraints we had, we basically recorded two albums in the time it takes to record one. So we were doing double-duty every day. I was tracking two songs vocally a day just to keep us on a deadline and it really pushed us to strive for excellence.”
The singer also said that the band wanted to “really try and go for (a) natural vibe on this without using a ton of samples and really try to differentiate us from everybody else out there . . . we wanted to really capture a unique sound.”
“House Of Gold And Bones will follow up the band’s third album, 2010′s “Audio Secrecy”.
Taylor and STONE SOUR guitarist Jim Root just got off the road with their other band, SLIPKNOT, but will tour with STONE SOUR later this year.
“House of Gold & Bones – Part 1″ track listing:
01. Gone Sovereign
02. Absolute Zero
03. A Rumor Of Skin
04. The Travellers Part 1
05. Tired
06. RU486
07. My Name Is Allen
08. Taciturn
09. Influence Of A Drowsy God
10. The Travellers Part 2
11. Last Of The Real
Harry of the Minneapolis, Minnesota radio station 93X conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT/STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor at SLIPKNOT‘s first-ever Knotfest, an extraordinary two-date metal and hard rock festival whch took place on August 17 in Council Bluffs, Iowa and August 18 in Somerset, Wisconsin. You can now watch the chat below.
Asked if he is planning to write another book following last year’s “Seven Deadly Sins – Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good”, Taylor said, “I’m working on book two right now. It’s gonna be really cool. I’m about, I’d say. A quarter of the way through it, which is good, ’cause I don’t have to turn it in until November. It’s probably gonna stir up some pretty good beef with certain people, but I don’t really care. The working title right now is ‘A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Heaven’, and it’s basically my experiences with the paranormal, and ghost sightings, and occurences, and I’ve had a lot, enough that I’m writing a damn book about it. But it’s actually… It’s about how can I believe in ghosts, and not in God? So it’s a very interesting conversation. And that’s kind of what I wanted to do with ‘Seven Deadly Sins’, was start a conversation and get people thinking about it. Because the stuff that interests me is the stuff that nobody talks about. And I have the weirdest ideas pop into my head, and there’s nobody there to talk about it with. So this is the perfect way for me to kind of start a conversation with a lot of people. Certain chapters will be specifically about the experiences that I’ve had in certain houses and whatnot, one of which is the mansion in L.A. where we recorded [SLIPKNOT's] ‘Vol. 3′ [album], and just kind of my take on the whole religion thing, so that’s probably gonna get me in some deep hotwater, but I’m so used to it by now, it’s not even funny.”
Regarding whether he can envision himself writing a novel one day, Taylor said, “I feel like I’ve got a novel in me somewhere, but that’s something… I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who’s a writer as well, and he’s nearly done with his first novel, and it’s taken him 11-12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it’s a long process. I mean, you’re creating a world, you’re creating something from scratch. And it’s always been easier for me to talk non-fiction than fiction. I’m kind of broaching it with the new STONE SOUR album, with the short story that accompanies the concept albums. But that was 12,000 words, which is a piece of piss — I mean, you’ve gotta get in, you do your thing, and there it is. And I had the added bonus of being able to have music tell a lot of the story as well, through the lyrics and whatnot. But yeah, I think some day. But I know me. I would never wanna out out something that I didn’t back, that I didn’t think was quality, that I didn’t think was up to scratch. I have a very, very high yardstick when it comes to putting something out that’s really amazinbg. So, for me, maybe down the line sometime, but nothing in the near future.”
“Seven Deadly Sins – Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good” made the New York Times hardcover non-fiction best sellers list after it came out in July 2011, debuting at No. 26.
Taylor promoted the book by doing appearances where he read, performed a few songs and signed copies.
Released in the U.S. via De Capo Press, “Seven Deadly Sins – Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good” saw Taylor speaking directly to his fans and sharing his worldview about life as a sinner. While the 256-page hardcover book was Taylor‘s personal story, it was also described as “a larger discussion of what it means to be seen as either a ‘good’ person or a ‘bad’ one.”
SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor passed out at the end of the last song of the band’s set last night (Tueday, July 10) at the Dallas, Texas stop of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival tour. He tweeted earlier today, “I’m fine — just overheated in Dallas last night. Ready and waiting for Houston! Thank you to everyone for your concerns!”
Fan-filmed video footage of the incident can be seen below. (Corey passes out around 1:50 mark.)
Fuse TV‘s Juliya Chernetsky conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor prior to the band’s performance this past Wednesday, July 4 at the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival in Nampa, Idaho. You can now watch the chat below. (Note: The interview begins around the 2:17 mark.)
According to The Pulse Of Radio, SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan told LA Weekly in a new interview that once the band packs it in, he’ll retire from the music business as well. Crahan explained that it takes him longer to recover from stage injuries as he gets older, saying, “Since the beginning, every show we’ve told ourselves that this could be the last. My kids know that if I die on stage, that’s where I should have gone. I don’t want to, though. I want to live for a very long time. I’d like to retire and leave on a good note. Whenever SLIPKNOT calls it a day, I ain’t coming back. I’m in Tahiti with my wife, wearing some stupid briefs on a beach with a Corona in my hand, while she is walking around topless.”
Crahan has a number of other interests outside SLIPKNOT, including photography and filmmaking.
He just published a book of his Polaroid pictures, called “The Apocalyptic Nightmare Journey”, and he and SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor have started a film production company called Living Breathing Films.
First, however, SLIPKNOT has to make at least one more new album, and Crahan told The Pulse Of Radio he’s ready for it. “Before you know it, there is going to be another record, and it’s gonna come sooner than anybody thinks,” he said. “Everybody thinks differently, but I’m here to tell you as the Clown, it’s gonna come sooner than you think and it’s gonna hit you in the back of the head instead of the front of the face. And it’s gonna be an amazing, amazing part of our lives.”
The new SLIPKNOT album will be the band’s first since 2008′s “All Hope Is Gone” and its first since the 2010 death of bassist Paul Gray.
SLIPKNOT is currently co-headlining the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, which pulls into Phoenix on Friday (July 6). The band is performing for now without guitarist Jim Root, who is home recovering from a burst appendix.
ARTISTdirect.com editor-in-chief Rick Florino recently conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
ARTISTdirect.com: Is “Antennas To Hell” like a photo album for SLIPKNOT?
Taylor: Yeah, I definitely think it’s a snapshot. This is our salute to the Paul [Gray, late SLIPKNOT bassist] years. That’s what I’m going to refer to it as. We made so many great songs with Paul. Even the songs Paul didn’t write he made better naturally. This is our way of showing a testament to Paul and what his legacy was as well as how many great songs came from those years. It’s going to be weird and interesting to see what happens in the future but , if nothing else happens, we had four great albums with Paul. This is our little salute to him.
ARTISTdirect.com: Do you feel like it’s a proper gateway for younger fans?
Taylor: Definitely! It’s not like we just give them our “radio hits,” which I can’t say without laughing. To be honest, it’s so weird we even have songs on the radio. It’s a great blend of the songs that were played on the radio and the songs we played live that people made hits. Without the fans, we wouldn’t have any of this. We certainly wouldn’t have any “hits.” It’s a combination of the live anthems people expect from us when they come to a show and the songs on the radio.
ARTISTdirect.com: What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of “All Hope Is Gone”?
Taylor: It was really a perfect storm of music coming in. Paul and Joey [Jordison, drums] had put together some really good stuff. Jim [Root] and Joey had actually put some stuff together. I brought a song in. There were actually some songs that came out of jamming together in the studio that made that album what it was. It was cool to come in every day and hear the potential coming out. All of this incredible potential was being realized, and it was cool to hear that. For me, it was a step towards the maturity of the band. We started doing that with “Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses”, but with “All Hope Is Gone” we found we could blend all of that ferocity with that different approach towards music. We could still have the heavy but branch out. If you want to talk about the Paul years, that was a great album to leave the people with in a way.
Read the entire interview from ARTISTdirect.com. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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