COREY TAYLOR Talks About New STONE SOUR Album

May 18, 2010

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor recently spoke to MTV News about "Audio Secrecy", the new album from his other band, STONE SOUR.

"It's so good, man," he said. "Every song has a catchy hook — even the heavy stuff — every song is loaded with melody. It's still got the attitude, but it's there. It's probably the best thing I've done in a long time. I mean [SLIPKNOT's 2008 effort] 'All Hope Is Gone' was a great album, and I worked really hard on it, but on this album ... coming in with the amount of material — we recorded 18 songs — and knowing that every tune not only has its own identity but is damn good, I'm very, very proud of that."

"Audio Secrecy", the follow-up to STONE SOUR's breakthrough 2006 album, "Come What(ever) May", was recorded at Nashville's iconic Blackbird Studios — the first time Corey's made an album outside of Los Angeles or his native Iowa.

"I finished my last song two days ago, and it's all killer; there's no filler. It's so good. I mean, there's so many vibes and so many styles, but it's all cohesive. The continuity is there," he said. "It doesn't sound like a comp album, it doesn't sound like 12 bands coming in going, 'We're going to record a song!' It sounds like a band exploring, which, to me, is [a] really old-school tradition.

"You never used to go in and just kind of chop out a bunch of songs and throw it out there. The old guard would go in, and they would just record what they had. They would record the songs that they wrote, because they wrote them. It didn't have to sound a certain way, didn't have to be a certain way, it didn't all have to sound the same," he continued. "It had life, and that's what we did with this. ... We just said, 'You know what? We wrote this. So what if this is heavier than that? So what if this is in a major key and these are in minor keys? ... We feel this, so let's go for it.'

"I play piano on a bunch of songs. One of them is called 'Miracles', which is really dark but kind of crescendos into this huge chorus at the end," he said. "There's so much more, though. We have an overabundance of writers in this band. We all write, so it's not a case of one guy writing all the songs or no one writing the songs. It's a complete thing."

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