Corey Taylor has opened up about how Metallica frontman James Hetfield helped him to really feel much less alone as he tried to get sober.

The Slipknot and Stone Bitter frontman has been sober since 2010, following years spent coping with alcohol and drug points.

“[I was] coping with my very own numerous addictions and combating the melancholy that I needed to take care of for years — the trauma that form of got here from after I was rising up,” Taylor advised Consequence Of Sound in a brand new interview.

He went on so as to add that these traumas included being sexually abused and rising up and not using a father determine.

Taylor then pointed in direction of Hetfield as one of many individuals who “helped me form of determine it out” when it got here to sobriety.

“When he first began his journey, getting sober and getting wholesome and whatnot, I checked out that, and I used to be, like, ‘Nicely, shit, if he’s sturdy sufficient to do it, perhaps I can strive it’,” he mentioned. “[Sobriety] had a large enough impact on me that, through the years, I’ve actually tried to keep it up. In figuring that out, I additionally realized that there have been so many individuals who have been taking place that path, as properly. Jerry Cantrell had simply gotten sober round that point, and he was beginning to form of put his steps collectively.”

Taylor additionally acknowledged that it isn’t simple for addicts to surrender one thing that has been a powerful a part of their lives for an prolonged time frame.

“It takes time; it takes effort, takes work,” he mentioned. “I actually have to present [Hetfield] loads of credit score for the inspiration for that… It positively helped to know that I wasn’t alone in it. And it actually helped me clear my head and focus extra. And actually get all the way down to writing once more — actually, really writing.”

Taylor had beforehand mentioned on a podcast that the primary few years of sobriety are “bizarre” as a result of “you realise rapidly how a lot part of your persona booze has grow to be, and also you form of must kind out who you might be, what you’re snug with and largely simply the behavior of it.”

Taylor launched his second solo album, ‘CMF2’, right this moment (September 15). In a three-star evaluate of the album, NME wrote: “There’s sufficient good things on right here to justify the album’s existence. And if nothing else, it’s an interesting perception into the dichotomy that drives one of many biggest bands of the twenty first century.”