In the new episode of SiriusXM’s ‘Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk’, Corey Taylor of Slipknot talked about his new upcoming solo album and how he is handling the tours. The frontman listed the tours he will be going on:
“I’m doing three and a half weeks in Europe and the U.K. with Slipknot. Pretty much all of June we’ll be gone. We’re doing the Download festival in the U.K. We’re doing all the other big European festivals too — Graspop, Copenhell, Roskilde, I think, is in there. We’re doing Resurrection Fest at the end, which is in Spain. We’re kind of running the gambit [sic]. I know we’re doing a lot of stuff in Germany as well.”
He carries on with the festivals and the shows that are to happen at a later time and adds:
“We’re still very fortunate to be able to do those festivals, man. It’s massive. But we’re doing a handful of ‘off’ shows as well that we’re doing… We’re doing a couple of U.S. shows in July. We’re doing Rock Fest and Inkcarceration. And then we’re also doing Blue Ridge, which that’s gonna be a hard week for me. So I’m doing Blue Ridge with Slipknot and then two days later we’re doing Blue Ridge with CMFT.”
Taylor also speaks of the struggles of being a musician, especially when not performing as just one artist:
“So I have to fly out of the CMFT tour [with my solo band], do the show at Blue Ridge with Slipknot, fly back to the solo tour. So it’s four shows in a row, which is hard. It’s gonna kill me. But end of August into the beginning of October, we’re going out in support of ‘CMF2’. And then the album comes out right smack dab in the middle of it. So it’s perfect.”
Corey Taylor, preparing to release his second solo album ‘CMF2’, hit Billboard’s US Top Rock Album charts with his first solo debut, ‘CMFT’. The rocker has announced his 2023 tour in support of his new album, which will include special guests Wargasm, Oxymorrons, and Luna Aura. The 28-city tour, produced by Live Nation, begins on August 25 at Denver. You can see the tour dates and get tickets here.
