Korn bassist says Joey Jordison was – like a piece of a puzzle that fit right in place – “He was a fan already and knew all the Korn songs, so when he came in to try out for us he was like, ‘I know everything. What do you want to play?’ It worked out perfect. It was like a piece of a puzzle that fit right in place.”

When asked if Zac Baird affected the new album recording:” You can hear it.  It’s changed a lot of the sound. We like it. If we didn’t like it we’d just fire him. He has some good ideas that inspire us to actually write songs so that’s really cool.”

Sid Wilson, Slipknot’s turntablist, is to release his debut solo album, The New Leader, as DJ Starscream at the end of August.

If you want to check out what it sounds like then head on over to his myspace page.

SLIPKNOT’s Corey Taylor was once left for dead in a dumpster by friends who thought he’d suffered a fatal drug overdose. The rocker was only 15 years old and living in a trailer park near Waterloo, Iowa at the time. He’s still shocked his pals didn’t take him to a local hospital.

He says, “At a place like that, there are only two things to do, really: you take drugs, and you f##k. Crank (form of methamphetamine) was just starting, and I was a total speed freak and really into coke. I remember waking up one morning in a dumpster. This is all conjecture on my part, because I lost a couple of days, but I think I OD’d at a party.

“Instead of taking me to a hospital, they took me somewhere and dumped me in a trash can, thinking I was dead. So I come to, I’ve got no shoes on, I’ve got no T-shirt, I’ve got blood on my face. I’m 12 miles from my house, and I proceeded to walk from there. The whole way home. I was like, I’ve gotta get out of here.”

Article from: starpulse.com

Drummer Joey Jordison has confirmed rumors that he will sit behind the kit for Korn this summer. “I’m lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years,” Joey said. “When I first heard Korn they blew me away and I have been a fan ever since. I’m looking forward to playing drums with these guys for the next five months!”

Joey will go straight from tour bus into the studio to continue work on the new Slipknot CD which will surface in 2008.

Article from: ultimate-guitar.com

SLIPKNOT front man Corey Taylor has blasted the media for devoting coverage to troubled stars including Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. The rocker is fed up with the publicity given to the likes of “pig” Spears.

Taylor, 33, says, “(Britney is) a pig and needs to give it up. People have this fascination with mediocrity and gross displays of bullshit. It’s everywhere. People are intrigued by popular people, but that shit is so precarious it can be gone tomorrow”. “The fact that the public are mesmerized by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.”

Article from: starpulse.com

Corey Taylor may be the vocalist in a band bigger than Stone Sour, but it is becoming too active to be labeled a “side project.” Taylor’s 2007 calendar includes no commitments to SLIPKNOT, the nine-member, Iowa-based metal act that’s issued three platinum-selling albums since 1999.

Stone Sour — which features another “Knot” band mate, guitarist James Root — will perform Wednesday at the Murat Egyptian Room as part of the Jagermeister Music Tour. The band, touring to promote its “Come What(ever) May” album, played a string of dates in Canada earlier this year and Stone Sour’s summer will include a headlining trek in Europe.

Article from: Indystar

Corey Taylor is on the cover of the May 2007 issue of Revolver. The cover kicks ass, hands down.
What’s even better is the feature Revolver wrote on Corey, Slipknot, Stone Sour, and his musical partners in crime. There’s a lot of new information in there, even to band fans. The issue hits shelves today, so make sure to get a copy.

Article from: roadrunnerrecords.com

Guitarist Jim Root says he feels ‘a lot more comfortable’ with Stone Sour than with Slipknot ! “We’re closer friends in Stone Sour than I am with the guys in Slipknot and that makes life a lot easier. I’m not trying to take anything away from Slipknot.” While Root is still a proud to be a member of the band, he doesn’t hide the fact that life in five-man Stone Sour is far more enjoyable. “In a nine-piece-band is one guy gonna call up eight guys and have a 45-minute discussion about every decision? No. So things are a lot more democratic in Stone Sour . Plus, we’re closer and it’s a lot easier to communicate. ”

Read the entire article at canada.com.

SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn Crahan (a.k.a. Clown) spoke to the Des Moines Register about the death of DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott.

Crahan attended a DAMAGEPLAN concert just last week, at Irving Plaza in New York. He called Abbott a friend and “rock ‘n’ roll icon.”

“It’s just upsetting how the world is — the need and the necessity to override the value of life,” Crahan said. “From my whole (SLIPKNOT) family, I would like to tell . . . Vinnie and everyone else how sorry we are.”

SLIPKNOT’s lead singer, Corey Taylor, sang on DAMAGEPLAN’s album released in February, “New Found Glory”.

When asked if Abbott’s death made him anymore fearful about stepping on stage in front of a sea of strange faces, as SLIPKNOT has done 150 times this year alone, Crahan struck a practical tone.

“This type of activity has always gone on and it’s part of our business,” he said. “You can go through decades of information and hear about these kinds of things. It sounds like there were people in place to try to prevent this. It almost doesn’t matter. People get in. It’s just so, so, so unfortunate.”

Corey Taylor on Dimebag:

“He could take a riff that would take somebody a year to master and he could rip it off in seconds. He made everything look like he was playing ‘Smoke on the Water’ with one finger.

He was one of the coolest people I’ve ever met. The guy just loved to laugh and he loved to make you laugh. And he loved to make you do something that you would never do in a million years. He was a guy that lived in the moment. His philosophy was, ‘Let’s do something that is gonna make us remember tonight for the rest of our lives.’ And that’s something I’m gonna fucking miss for the rest of mine.”