STONE SOUR Hard At Work On New Material

November 8, 2011

Corey Taylor tells Billboard.com that STONE SOUR's follow-up to 2010's "Audio Secrecy" will be "probably the biggest thing we've done in our career."

"Right now we're just working on demos...and a pretty grandiose idea that I've been kind of chewing on for a long time," Taylor says. "On a musical scale, artistically, visually, we're going to swing for the fences with this one. If we can pull it off, it would be really cool and...put a lot of people in their place. I'm really excited to get working on it."

According to Taylor, STONE SOUR will hit the studio in 2012, between SLIPKNOT's run on February's Soundwave Festival in Australia and a summer tour of North America that's slated to kick off in mid-June. "We've got a lot of great ideas already," Taylor says. "We've got some people we're looking to work with. Once we have more information on it, we'll let everybody know."

Drummer Mike Portnoy (ADRENALINE MOB, DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD) sat behind the kit for STONE SOUR during the band's appearance at the Rock In Rio festival on September 24 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

STONE SOUR's regular drummer, Roy Mayorga, was at home awaiting the birth of his first daughter.

STONE SOUR canceled a number of tour dates this past spring after Mayorga suffered a stroke following a gig in Des Moines, Iowa.

Mayorga joined STONE SOUR in 2006 after the band's previous drummer, Joel Ekman, was forced to leave the group in order to spend time with his son, who was diagnosed with brain stem cancer.

Taylor did an extensive interview with HardDrive Radio earlier in the year in which he revealed that STONE SOUR is definitely planning to release a concert DVD and cover songs EP in one package. Taylor went into detail about the project, saying, "We shot a concert last year on the co-headlining tour that we did with AVENGED SEVENFOLD, and we shot it in Brighton (England),and we've been trying to get it together ever since and it's just been insane. There's been so much work and we just haven't had a chance to kind of get a handle on it. But we've been talking about doing a covers EP forever. This is just a kind of a cool way to put something cool out that the fans will dig."

Taylor added that each member of STONE SOUR will get to pick one song for the covers EP.

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