COREY TAYLOR Talks About 'Seven Deadly Sins' Book With KERRANG! Magazine

Kerrang! magazine conducted an interview with STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor when the band played the NIA in Birmingham, England on October 28, 2010. You can now watch the chat below.

Amazon.co.uk recently released what appears to be the official cover (see below) for "Seven Deadly Sins", the forthcoming book from Corey Taylor.

Taylor is the hard-living, hard-talking frontman of the bands SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR. 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.

Due in March 2011 via Da Capo Press, "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.

In a July 2010 interview with ExploreMusic, Taylor stated about his upcoming book, "It's basically me kind of taking the piss out of the whole religion thing. It's really wrapped around the 'seven deadly sins' and how my interpretation of the seven deadly sins is basically they're not sins at all. They are human characteristics that we all share. In a way, they're the kind of things that connect us all — we're all horny, hungry, angry motherfuckers, basically. But that doesn't make it a sin. They may lead to sin, but the urge is not sin at all; we're all instinctive animals at the end of the day . . . 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, and I balance it with some stories from the past and all these things that I kind of went through and, you know, that I came out on the other side and, hopefully, I'm a good person for it. So it's kind of half funny, half serious, but it's very — I think — I think it's very intelligently written and I make very valid points and I cuss a lot in it, so there you go."