COREY TAYLOR Schedules 'Seven Deadly Sins' U.K. Book-Signing Events

SLIPKNOT/STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor has scheduled three exclusive U.K. events to promote and launch his new book, titled "Seven Deadly Sins - Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good". The details are as follows:

*** July 12: Relentless Garage, London

Waterstones presents "An Evening With Corey Taylor". Exclusive evening with a short acoustic set and talk about his new book. Ticket includes pre-signed copy of "Seven Deadly Sins"

*** July 13: Waterstones, Birmingham at 12:30 p.m. - Public signing of "Seven Deadly Sins" at Waterstones, 24-26 High Street, Birmingham.

*** July 13: HMV Institute, Birmingham at 7 p.m. Kerrang! will present "An Evening With Corey Taylor" featuring an acoustic set and book reading at the HMV Institute in Birmingham.

Due 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.