COREY TAYLOR On New STONE SOUR Album, SLIPKNOT's Future

June 15, 2010

According to Billboard.com, STONE SOUR's new song "Mission Statement" was downloaded last week over 50,000 times for free during a special 48-hour period at the group's web site. The track comes off the band's first new LP in nearly four years, "Audio Secrecy", which is scheduled for release on September 7 via Roadrunner Records.

"I'm just sort of blown away and ecstatic," singer Corey Taylor — who also fronts SLIPKNOT — told Billboard.com. "There's a lot of buzz and people are really stoked. This album is not only better than the first two STONE SOUR albums combined, to me it's the most well-rounded and diverse album I've ever been able to make. The music is just so visceral, and 'Mission Statement' is a perfect example of where it's at. That's a great anthem. It's got a little bit of the heavy but also is melodic as hell."

Although Taylor declined to comment directly about the recent death of SLIPKNOT bassist Paul Gray, he did offer a "too soon to say right now" regarding the masked band's future.

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