SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Talks About The Band's New Album

April 15, 2004

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor recently spoke to The Flint Journal about the group's forthcoming CD, "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)", due on May 25 through Roadrunner Records.

"The album is a really good amalgam of all the things that were great on the first two albums and all these different directions that we always wanted to go," he said. "It's a very eclectic yet reined-in album.

"It's almost a dichotomy at times where it's brutal yet it's melodic," Corey continued. "It's heavy and thrash, but it's rock and it's all these great, beautiful flavors that nobody tries to do anymore. So many bands just basically write one song and create a whole album around it.

"We have always been all about creating an album as a whole and then going back and looking at possible singles. That's one of the reasons why our albums still hold out to this day. We take the time to make sure something is, in our eyes, immortal instead of slick and 15 minutes."

"I think [STONE SOUR] helped us break down a lot of the stereotypes around this band. Just from myself, a lot of people just thought I was a screamer and that was it and just totally overlooking the singing that I was actually doing on both of those albums. On STONE SOUR, I got to stretch out a little bit and show the different styles of what I could do.

"On this album, I've been able to incorporate that but at the same time, help SLIPKNOT evolve to where it needs to go. It's not all screaming but at the same time, it's not all singing. It's not all melodic. There's some really cool, dark passages that aren't either. I can't even describe it. Joey (Jordison, drums) calls it my gothic talk voice.' I don't know what it means, but it's really cool. You'll have to hear it to believe it.

"The cool thing about this album is it's got all the crazy stuff, but it's very well structured," Taylor said. "At first, you listen to it and it appears calm. Then you start to listen to it a little bit more and you can feel the chaos underneath. It gives (the music) a really good edge."

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