COREY TAYLOR Names His Top Three Choices For People To Record Audio Version Of 'Sins' Book

SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor last week began recording an audio version of his book "Seven Deadly Sins - Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good".

When asked in a recent interview with Artisan news if he was going to work on an audiobook release of "Seven Deadly Sins", Taylor replied, "Originally the publishing house wasn't interested in doing it. They were like, 'It doesn't do well with this type of book.' And blah blah blah. And I was like, 'You don't know my fans.' Right out of the gate, that's what they started asking about: 'When is the audiobook coming out?' So, because we've gotten so many requests for it, now the publishing house is like, 'Whatever you wanna do. Let's do it now. Let's do it tomorrow.' So when I go home, I'm gonna record that, and it should be interesting."

He added, "I always had a plan that if I didn't get to read it, I had three people that I wanted to read it: Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken or Betty White. Those are my three that, I'm just like, I would love to have that happen. But I'm not gonna get out it; I'm gonna have to read it myself. Which is fine, seeing as it's my kind of flow, I'll be able to kind of kick through it."

"Seven Deadly Sins - Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good"landed at position No. 26 on the New York Times "Hardcover Nonfiction" best sellers list.

"I've been threatening to write a book for a long time, but since every Tom, Dick and Harry writes an autobiography, I didn't want to just do that. My approach to writing is the same as my approach to music: I don't want to do what everybody else is doing," said Taylor about "Seven Deadly Sins".

"That Metal Show"'s Jim Florentine recently conducted an in-depth interview with Corey about the book, his life, and his music, and the conversation was aired in three parts so fans don't miss a word of it. Check it out below.

Released in the U.S. on July 12 via De Capo Press, "Seven Deadly Sins - Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good" sees Taylor speaking directly to his fans and sharing his worldview about life as a sinner. While the 256-page hardcover book is Taylor's personal story, it's also described as "a larger discussion of what it means to be seen as either a 'good' person or a 'bad' one."

Taylor told ExploreMusic in July 2010 that the book was about "how my interpretation of the seven deadly sins is basically they're not sins at all. They are human characteristics that we all share . . . And it's me making that point of you can live with these urges, you can live with these hungers and still be a good person."

Renowned for his flamboyant and disturbing stage presence, Corey has lived it all. Starting in the early '90s, Corey threw himself into the hard-drinking, hard-loving, live-for-the-moment life of a small-town Iowa hero Corey "Fucking" Taylor! As his career went stratospheric, and he found himself rich, wanted and on the road, his behavior got more and more extreme. Everything you can think of, Corey's done it... girls, drugs, excess of every kind.

"Seven Deadly Sins" is Corey's story, told through the prism of the seven deadly sins. His years of excess eventually made him sit down and start to think about what it was to "sin" and whether "sinning" could or should be recast as a good rather than bad thing. Yes, Corey's hurt people, and done bad things, but if sin is what makes the man, then can it ever be wrong? This isn't a straightforward memoir, this is Corey's no-holds-barred story told through his own unique philosophy, honed through years of the craziest and most hedonistic excess in rock.

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