SLIPKNOT Frontman Talks Upcoming Solo Album

January 13, 2009

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor has confirmed to Billboard.com that he is making plans to record his first solo album rather than go back to his other band, STONE SOUR, at the end of SLIPKNOT's current touring cycle.

"I know I have this album that I need to make," Taylor tells Billboard.com, "and I'm the kind of guy that if I can't get that done then it's going to hold me back from all this other stuff I want to do. I just know I've got to make it or I can't branch out."

He adds that there are "a lot of songs I've written that don't fit with either band, really" and describes the material as "kind of a cross between the FOO FIGHTERS and SOCIAL D, with some JOHNNY CASH mixed in. . . Obviously there's a country background that comes built-in with living in Iowa," Taylor notes — but he also promises that "there's a lot of upbeat, just flat-out hard rock tunes."

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