One thing that's clear from all the interviews Corey Taylor has been doing about his new solo album, is that he's had an absolutely great time doing it. It is interesting to hear in interviews him speak of the positive experience, because, unlike with Slipknot or Stone Sour, it was likely the first time in a while where Taylor was in full control.
In a new interview with Kaaos TV, Taylor was discussing the making of the new album, and he sort of stumbled into talking about how he may not have had the best time working on Slipknot's music, at least that's how I took the implication. It started with Taylor being asked what he learned about himself working on this new album:
"I don't know if it was a therapy session – it was a blast, man. We had so much fun recording this album, and that's one of the reasons I chose the people I did to be in the band because some of these guys I've known almost 20 years.
"We've all been friends, I knew how good they were, but I also knew that they would be as excited about the recording process as I would be.
"So every day was just another chance to laugh; every day was just another chance to hang out with your bros and just have a good time making music.
"We didn't hold anything back, we were just so stoked and so excited about making a big rock album that we just got into it. So in a way, it was a complete 180 from an experience that I really haven't had since the first Slipknot album [1999's self-titled].
"It was so enjoyable and so positive that it really kind of set the tone for me as like, 'You know what? This is the only way I want to make music from now on. I don't want to waste my time with people who are fucking miserable anymore. I want to make music with people who are as stoked as I am about what we get to do for our lives, and yeah, that really pulled great energy out of it.'
Emphasis mine. Kudos to Kaaos TV for following up here, because this is certainly an interesting tangent. Kaaos TV followed up by saying "I guess in Slipknot you have pretty strong musicians who all have their own opinions about the stuff you are writing" and Corey Taylor made it clear there are some people in Slipknot who can't be happy:
"Yeah, I mean, you would think that that would lend itself sometimes, but some people just can't get out of their own way when it comes to just being unhappy.
"It's like, 'Fuck man, what do you have to be unhappy about? We're living our dream, it's been over 20 years now, and we still get to do this,' you know?
"I don't get it. In a lot of ways, it shows me that certain people's choices in life can really dictate how they become in life, whereas I still make music for the same reason that I wanted to make music when I was a kid – because I fucking love it.
"And you know, it's just one of those cases where sometimes you just grow apart, people just change, and you wake up one day and somebody you've known for 20 years you have very little in common with. It's not to say that you don't still make good music together, but it's different."
Who could Taylor possibly be talking about? Is he just throwing some shade at former member Chris Fehn, who has a pending lawsuit against the band, or does he mean active members of the band?
Slipknot plan to reactivate next year and hit the road, you know, if this whole pandemic thing gets figured out.
Corey Taylor's solo album, CMFT, comes out October 2, 2020. Listen to both new singles here.
[via Ultimate Guitar]
