Corey Taylor Throws More Shade at Members of Slipknot and Stone Sour
Last we heard from The Best Thing About Waking Up Every Morning™ (other than Folgers) regarding his new solo album, Corey Taylor — Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman, published author and avowed pants-wearer — described CMFT as the “most enjoyable” recording experience he’s had since Slipknot’s debut. He then went on to say that some members of Slipknot are “fucking miserable” people with whom he “doesn’t want to waste [his] time,” causing quite a ruckus on the internet (it’s unclear whether any of those band members actually gave a shit).
Now, in a new chat with hard-hitting journalistic outpost Knotfest.com Forbes, Taylor began answering a question about the reinvigoration that making his solo album has given him by saying he doesn’t want to throw shade at his Slipknot and Stone Sour band members… and then proceeded to do exactly that. Says He:
“I can sum it up like this. It was the first time in years that I was surrounded by people, every one of those people were just as hungry as I was again. Does that make sense?
“That’s me being very diplomatic, that’s me not trying to throw any of my brothers under the bus, but it’s the first time in a long time that I was surrounded by people who wanted to make music for the same reason that I did, and that was just to make incredible music, being excited about the opportunity to make something massive.
“Being so fucking energized and stoked that you can feel it in a recording, you can hear it in the music, you can see it when we’re playing it.
“It’s been a long, long, long time since I was surrounded by people who were just as geeked to make music, fuck selling it, fuck playing it, fuck any of that, making music because it gives us so much joy. I haven’t felt that in a very, very long time.
“So that’s what I meant. I don’t give a shit about any of that stuff man, I make music for me first, then I share it with people. If I’m not into it, I don’t put it out there. I never will.
“That’s the only reason to do it righteously; if I happen to make money, that’s awesome too. I can pay my bills, take care of my people, but I don’t have a Lamborghini, I don’t have a solid-gold toilet, I don’t give a shit about any of that stuff.
“The only thing that matters to me is making music that I want to fucking hear back. I can’t say that about a lot of the people that I’m in a band with. Either band. But I can say that about this band. There it is.”
That’s some way to treat your “brothers,” Corey!! Sheesh. The pointy-nosed dude in Slipknot who presses buttons on stage is gonna be real, real pissed. Maybe he’ll sue you, too, just like Chris Fehn did!!
Noting that Slipknot’s 2019 album, We Are Not Your Kind, was well-received by fans, the interviewer then asked, “Is it fair to say that fans can’t tell what the dynamic or enthusiasm is within your band – or who’s motivating each other?” To which Metal Jeebus Himself answered, this time in a bit more of a diplomatic fashion:
“Sometimes it’s the tension that creates the creativity. But I don’t thrive on that. I don’t need that to create. Some people do. But there’s people like me who can kind of do it either way.
“I prefer to feel a gung-ho, all-for-one-one-for-all kind of vibe. That’s what I love. I love being in a studio and being so stoked about something that you’re thinking, ‘People are gonna flip when they hear this.’ That’s my win. That’s my gratification.
“I don’t need tension. I don’t need fights. I don’t need drama. I spent most of my life wrapped in that drama, whether I liked it or not. I’m done with it.
“You talk about ‘We Are Not Your Kind,’ the very lyrical content of that came from living in a toxic drama for years and finally being able to extricate myself from it. So in that respect, I needed it.
“And it was a good experience for me with ‘We Are Not Your Kind,’ we had a lot of fun making it… when we were around each other. But, it’s still night-and-day from the experience that I had with this solo album.”
Read into that what you will. Lord knows we sure will!
Taylor will release his decidedly un-miserable, enjoyable first solo album, CMFT, on October 2, and has put out three singles from it to date: “Corey Taylor Must Be Stopped,” “Black Eyes Blues” and “HWY 666.”
[via Ultimate Guitar]
