Corey Taylor might have revealed that 2019 is going to be dedicated to Slipknot, but that hasn’t stopped him from preparing new music from Stone Sour already.
Earlier this year, Slipknot began to tease fans by indicating that they were getting prepared to work on a new album soon.
While fans were undoubtedly eager to hear the group’s first album since 2014, the band shot down any hopes of it coming in the near future, noting that they wouldn’t hit the studio until 2018, before the album was released in 2019.
Since then, frontman Corey Taylor has gotten fans nice and excited by revealing that the new record sounds a lot like 2001’s Iowa, while remarking the album’s lyrics are among the best he’s ever written.
Of course, while it seems as though Slipknot is all he’s thinking about right now, Corey Taylor spoke to HEAVY Magazine about Stone Sour’s upcoming Australian tour, noting he’s still working on new music with the band.
“We started writing new [Stone Sour] music pretty much as soon as we got on the road,” he explained. “We’re just can’t be stopped. We’re gluttons for punishment at this point.”
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“The cool thing is knowing that we’ve got all this great material, we can kinda enjoy the rest as much as we can because we know when it’s time to really start ramping up the demo machine, we’re gonna have all this cool stuff to listen to. There’s no pressure for us to just run right in.”
“Obviously I’m going to do Slipknot next year, and it will allow the audience to miss [Stone Sour], which is the best thing in the world you can have,” he continued.
“That built-in need for a band to come back just when you think you can’t wait any longer, here comes this band and they’re like, ‘Goddamn, they’re so good right now.'”
Stone Sour are set to hit up Australia this December when they play Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane as part of the inaugural Good Things festival, but there’s no word if their set will include any new tunes.
While it’s not the last you’ll be seeing of Stone Sour, the band might be put on the back-burner for a period of time while Slipknot work on releasing that long-awaited sixth album.
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Good Things Festival 2018 Lineup
The Offspring (Performing Smash In Full)
Stone Sour
All Time Low
Dropkick Murphys
Bullet For My Valentine
The Used
BABYMETAL
The Smith Street Band
Dashboard Confessional
(Performing songs from The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most + Fan Favourites)
Mayday Parade
La Dispute
Northlane
The Wonder Years
Waterparks
Tonight Alive
Scarlxrd
Emmure
Palaye Royale
Make Them Suffer
WAAX
Boston Manor
Void Of Vision
Ecca Vandal
Friday, December 7th
Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne, VIC
Saturday, December 8th
Parramatta Park, Sydney, NSW
Sunday, December 9th
Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane, QLD
Tickets on sale now
