Corey Taylor has revealed his desires to spread his wings a bit, explaining he would love to record a “dark jazz” album at some point.
Ever since Slipknot burst onto the scene in the late ’90s, frontman Corey Taylor has been renowned for his musical versatility. After blowing our minds with Slipknot, he took things down a small notch with Stone Sour, but at every turn, he’s won over new fans thanks to his ability to craft some stunning music.
Now, it seems like Corey Taylor might have the world of jazz in his sights.
Speaking with RadioVegas.Rocks’ Chaotic Radio (via Blabbermouth) recently, the Slipknot vocalist discussed making different albums from different genres, making it clear that a country record was not on the horizon.
“No. Even coming from Iowa—fuck no!” Taylor began. “Absolutely not. And it’s not to say that I couldn’t write stuff like that.”
“My interest would be more singer-songwriter kind of vibe, like Squeeze or something like that,” he continued. “Or — and I’ve actually been thinking about doing something like this — putting together a quartet or a quintet and doing a jazz album, like a dark jazz album, [and] recording it live in a room. It won’t sell shit. It would really just be for my own fucking personal collection… ‘Cause I love jazz.”
“A lot of people don’t realize that — I listen to a lot of ’40s and ’50s jazz. And there is this… the haunting stuff that [Billie] Holiday would do, the older stuff that Charlie Parker would do, when he was really fucked up — that would be the stuff that I would be closer to.”
“And I’ve got, actually, jazzy versions of some of my own songs that I would love to try. Probably something like [Slipknot’s] ‘Prosthetics’, I think would be really, really cool. And then [Stone Sour’s] ‘Bother’ — I’ve got a really cool jazzy version of ‘Bother’ that could be really cool.”
Check out Slipknot’s ‘Prosthetics’:
However, even though he vehemently denied the idea of making a country record, Corey Taylor did note that some of Stone Sour’s recent material did indeed feature some characteristics of the genre.
“Honestly, I write stuff like that all the time,” Taylor explained. “‘St. Marie’, on the new Hydrograd album was a leftover from some stuff that I’d written that had a very country vibe to it. But it was more California country that the twangy. So it was cool. It was more like the six- or seven-chord vibe.”
As it stands, Slipknot are working hard on the follow-up to 2013’s .5: The Gray Chapter. While some sources have pointed towards a mid-year release date for the record, Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan recently revealed that their new album focuses on the theme of “evil vs. good”.
“It’s about being a human being and experiencing what you have in correlating it to this world,” he explained. “This world is ugly and it’s supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.”
While there’s no word as to whether or not Corey Taylor will indeed take a leaf out of Jeff Goldblum’s book and release a jazzy solo album, we can at least rest assured knowing there will indeed be new music from Slipknot coming in 2019.
Check out Slipknot’s latest single, ‘All Out Life’:
