Corey Taylor recently sat down with Loudwire to chat about his new solo album, ‘CMF2,’ hitting the shelves this September. He also compared his solo band with his other acts, Slipknot and Stone Sour, and boldly stated why his solo band was superior to both.
The chat got into these comparisons when the interviewer first asked Taylor whether his solo act was ‘the’ band for him, and the singer explained:
“This is definitely ‘The Band.’ I hand-picked these guys. They were dudes who I absolutely loved playing with. I loved spending time with them. I loved playing onstage with them. I loved creating with them. I just know that if I throw a style at them, they can play it. These guys, they’re not hired guns. But they are guys that have experience playing a million styles and being really able to excel at every style. That’s one of the reasons why I picked them.”
Taylor, after all his love for his ‘hand-picked’ bandmates, then went on to reveal more about why his solo act could leave Slipknot in the dust when it came to their collaboration:
“I knew if I was going to do a solo thing, it was going to incorporate everything. At one point, I was going to play Slipknot, I was going to play Stone Sour, and I was going to do these covers that maybe come out of left field. We can play around with it and have it reflect whatever, but I was going to play around when it came to this solo thing, so I just needed people who were exceptional when it came to musicianship. And the stuff that they come up with creatively, it’s fantastic.”
As the release date for the album gets closer, the vocalist and his band are gearing up for a tour across North America. They’ve already released two singles from the record. ‘Beyond‘ came out in May, and ‘Post Traumatic Blues’ followed in July.
After its release, the Slipknot frontman talked about the second track in a public statement. He shared:
“‘Post Traumatic Blues’ is my attempt to describe for people what it’s like to deal with PTSD. Sometimes it’s so hard for people to understand the ups and downs, the severity of the cold and numbness, that I wanted to try and build a bridge lyrically between the ones living with the disease and the ones who are trying to help them.”
You can listen to ‘Post Traumatic Blues’ below.
