COREY TAYLOR’S GUIDE TO BEING… HAPPY?

With a raucous new solo album that’s a world away from the darkness of Slipknot, it seems that Corey Motherfucking Taylor has finally found contentment. But how?

WORDS: DANNII LEIVERS

You think you know Corey Taylor? Sure you do. He’s one of the biggest characters in our world. Metal’s Great Big Mouth. The man who’s spawned a thousand memes. For 20 years, he’s told us exactly what he thinks… about everything. We’ve watched him take on the haters, rant about reality TV, and even knock Kanye West down a peg or two… So when he announced his debut solo album, CMFT, we thought it was safe to assume it’d fall somewhere between the dark depths of Slipknot and the metal- tinged anthemia of his other gig, Stone Sour. On July 29, Corey released two singles to kick things off: the bright, melodic Black Eyes Blue, and hubristic cut CMFT Must Be Stopped. As the video for the latter hit the internet, shocked…

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Metal Hammer UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2020

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