In a bout of egotism that surprises precisely nobody, Corey Taylor opened up in an interview with Grammy.com about his must do his personal factor after being held again in earlier tasks.

“As a performer, you bodily need to rise to that event,” he explains. The one factor that holds us again in efficiency is age, and I’m fortunate that I’m wholesome sufficient that I can nonetheless go at a sure stage. However I do know I can’t proceed that eternally. The fellows in Slipknot additionally know that, and that’s one thing that we’re speaking about very actually. ‘What will we do?’ ‘What does the subsequent stage of Slipknot appear like?’

“We’re taking a look at it from an inventive standpoint. How will we make it nonetheless appear frenetic and off the chain, but additionally one thing that we will cope with from a power standpoint? It’ll be attention-grabbing to see the place that problem takes us. It additionally permits me to have the ability to do stuff like this solo factor. It’s high-energy proper now, however when it will get to the purpose the place I need to tame it down a little bit bit, I’ve songs that I can lean into and allow them to do the heavy lifting for me.

“That is most likely the closest to the true me as a performer that I’ve been in my complete profession. As a result of clearly, with Slipknot, it’s actually one facet of the style. With Stone Bitter, I used to be being held again due to sure folks within the band. However with this, there aren’t any limitations, and I can do music carte blanche so far as style goes and efficiency goes. I’ve a band that may play something, which is simply legal. It’s actually, actually cool. I’m simply actually lucky to be within the place the place I’m proper now.”

Whereas he doesn’t go as far as to inform us who these sure folks are, this isn’t the primary time he’s put Stone Bitter on blast in an analogous method. In an interview with Paste about placing Stone Bitter on hiatus to do solo music, he claimed:

 “When Stone Bitter first began, not solely was I taking part in guitar consistently, however I used to be additionally the lead guitarist and primary author. Truthfully, one of many the reason why I used to be very adamant about beginning my solo factor is that there was a bizarre false impression round who was writing what for what band. Possibly that is the place my ego comes into play, however I felt like I wasn’t getting the credit score for the issues I used to be really writing.

“With Stone Bitter, it was pretty apparent, however there have been plenty of songs that I wrote that folks thought [guitarists] Jim [Root] or Josh [Rand] wrote the place that wasn’t the case in any respect. After which, with Slipknot, there was plenty of stuff that both wouldn’t have been written with out me, or that I wrote that different folks gave [themselves] credit score [for]. As somebody who takes nice delight in sitting down and creating one thing from nothing—simply from my creativeness—that caught in my craw.”

We aren’t disagreeing concerning the ego remark, however we do should admit, Taylor has a sure magnetism and swagger that he brings to all his tasks—for higher or for worse.