As Stone Sour, the Grammy-nominated Alt-Metal band, prepares to release a new album, Audio Secrecy on September 7th, Stone Sour and Slipknot front man Corey Taylor sat down for an interview with Billboard.com to talk about the new album, and unsurprisingly, the future of Slipknot was brought into question as well.
The new album, and the single Mission Statement, have been drawing buzz, following so closely after the death of Slipknot’s #2, bassist Paul Gray. With Taylor working on these kind of projects and having at least a moderate amount of success (when compared with Slipknot), one has to ask if the death of one of the founding members of Slipknot may result in the breakup of the band as each member goes their separate ways to pursue their own side projects.
While Taylor remained mute on the future of Slipknot, he does seem optimistic about the future of Stone Sour, calling Audio Secrecy “the most well-rounded and diverse album I’ve ever been able to make.” and fans seem to agree, with the single Mission Statement seeing an estimated 50,000 downloads in just under 48-hours when it was made availible for free on the band’s website.
As for the future of both bands, only time will tell.
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