For anyone who’s followed Corey Taylor since he first roared into mass consciousness as the masked frontman of Slipknot in the late ‘90s, it won’t come as a surprise that he still has a lot to say. Never one to mince words, Taylor has always matched his ire with a penchant for stinging observation and opinions that are as well-considered as they are pointed.
Maybe this is where my ego comes into play, but I felt like I wasn’t getting the credit for the things I was actually writing. With Stone Sour, it was fairly obvious, but there were a lot of songs that I wrote that people thought [guitarists] Jim [Root] or Josh [Rand] wrote where that wasn’t the case at all. And then, with Slipknot, there was a lot of stuff that either wouldn’t have been written without me, or that I wrote that other people gave [themselves] credit [for].
It wasn’t until we signed with the management company that would eventually become 5B [Artist Management]—which has been our management company for 20 years now—that we hadlooking out for us. That was right around the time that we started to kind of put our pieces together and build a foundation over this abyss that we werehanging over. I mean, it was dark, dude. There were some nights where I couldn’t get off the hotel floor because I was so, either chemically fucked-up or mentally just gone.
of the part of the country you’re from. It put a place on the pop-culture map by opening a door into an underbelly that people from elsewhere wouldn’t have known about. You traveled a lot as a kid, and you wrote a book on America. What have you learned about the US from traveling around—both within the country and outside of it?: Growing up on the road, whether moving around or touring, I’ve seen that the country has changed a lot over the years. People have changed a lot.
PM: I’m surprised to hear you don’t relate more to how people in quote-unquote “flyover country” have feelings of resentment about being viewed that way.: I mean, we did. But at the same time, for example, all the bands who I’m friends with now, they would always say they’d come through Des Moines and it would be the craziest fuckin’ show. When you talk about flyover states, everybody talks about the mainstream idea—the picture, thefuckin’ bullshit.
PM: Your new song “Post-Traumatic Blues,” touches, if only in passing, on PTSD. But you’ve been open about attempts to take your own life on multiple occasions, even fairly recently.PM: Where are you with these struggles, and is there anything else on the record that you’re trying to get across that you would want to draw attention to?: We pretty much covered it all. Right now, the demons are at bay. I’m actually in a pretty decent place in my life and in my heart.
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