Stone Sour/Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor spoke with Knotfest.com about his upcoming debut solo album, tentatively due out in September. Taylor recorded the effort with his solo band, consisting of Jason Christopher on bass, Dustin Schoenhofer on drums, with Zach Throne and Stone Sour's Christian Martucci on guitar.
Taylor described the disc as “something I was planning to do anyway next year . . . but I figured if this was the time to do it, why not try and do it. Me and my band quarantined. We social distanced for about two weeks, including our producer, Jay Ruston, who I worked with, and the people at the studio that I recorded at.”
The singer said that the material ranged from a song he wrote in high school to tunes he composed during the last Slipknot tour, explaining, “It's just stuff that I've kind of had floating around that didn't really fit with either band. It just had different energy and a different vibe.”
He continued, “It's everything I wanted it to be. There's some Slade in there, there's some Johnny Cash, there's some Alice In Chains. I mean, big choruses, fun rock, just huge solos . . . The way I've been looking at it is it's like a futuristic throwback. Everything on this album is a hybrid of all these different genres that I'm really into.”
Taylor told us a while back what he thought a solo LP might sound like: “For me, the stuff that I write is, it would be like a cross between the Foos, Social D. and the Replacements, you know. I mean, real Midwestern rock. Real, just open chords, good time rock, you know. And damn the critics, basically. That's the stuff I write and that's the stuff I've always tried to write.”
The vocalist says he recorded 25 songs for his solo effort, including 13 originals, six covers and acoustic versions of seven of the originals.