Corey Taylor has offered fans an insight into the making of the music video for the lead single from his debut solo record.

The coronavirus pandemic forced Slipknot to abandon their gruelling 2020 tour plans, which gave Taylor the rare opportunity to jump in the studio and chip away at a solo project.

“I threw down the gauntlet and I recorded my first solo album. And it’s really, really good,” Taylor shared with Knotfest “It’s something I was planning to do anyway next year when I got off the road with Slipknot. And I figured…why not try and do it?”

Taylor assembled a band comprised of Jason Christopher on bass, Dustin Schoenhofer on drums, and Zach Throne and Christian Martucci (of Stone Sour) on guitar. Working with Stone Sour producer Jay Ruston, Taylor nutted out his debut at The Hideout Recording Studio in Las Vegas.

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“This was stuff that we had been working on for a while,” Taylor revealed of the record’s material. “This was stuff that I had written as [recently] as the last Slipknot tour.

“There’s a song on here that dates back to when I was in high school, so that tells you how long I’ve been sitting on a lot of this material. And it’s just stuff that I’ve kind of had floating around that didn’t really fit with either band. It just had different energy and a different vibe,” he explained.

Taylor has confirmed that thirteen original tracks are set to feature on the record.

In terms of what we can expect the Corey Taylor debut to sound like, “It’s everything that I wanted it to be,” he explains. “There’s some Slade in there. There’s some Johnny Cash. There’s some Alice in Chains. There’s some big choruses, fun rock, just huge solos – huge solos. It’s incredible.”