Corey Taylor says solo album is “one of the best things I’ve ever written"

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor has given us an update on his eagerly-anticipated solo album by giving fans a taste of what to expect on the forthcoming record.

Speaking in an interview on Knotfest’s podcast in June (via NME) the rocker was clearly excited over his new tunes, telling the host that the new album is “probably one of the best things I’ve ever written”.

“It’s everything I wanted it to be,” Taylor said. “There’s some Slade in there, there’s some Johnny Cash, there’s some Alice In Chains.”

He continued, “I mean, big choruses, fun rock, just huge solos — huge solos. It’s incredible. I, actually, two years ago, started teaching myself piano just so I can record this song that I wrote for my wife, and I was able to play it and record it. And it’s really good — it’s probably one of the best things I’ve ever written.”

While Corey Taylor is yet to reveal the specific date we can expect the record to be released, he did tell us exactly how many songs it will have.

“Thirteen. We did thirteen originals,” he confirmed. “We recorded seven covers, and then we did six acoustic versions of the originals that we put together. Or [maybe] it’s five. I can never keep that straight. Maybe it’s six [covers] and six [acoustic versions] — I can’t remember.”

It comes after Taylor gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the music video for the upcoming album’s lead single.

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“All the songs are things that I’ve written over the years but they didn’t really fit with either band,” Taylor said. “So it’s stuff that I’ve just kind of been sitting on. And I realised — I just kind of turned around and I was just, like, ‘Geez, I’ve got all these songs.’”