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Slipknot's
singer Corey Taylor and guitarist Jim Root unmasks on
this self-titled album by Stone Sour. Story is that
Stone Sour was the band they were involved in 1992 until
1997 when the band fell apart and they went ahead to
join Slipknot. Now almost 10 years later from their
original formation of the band Stone Sour releases their
first record. Corey Taylor and Jim Root are united with
Josh Rand (Guitar), Shawn Economaki (Bass), and Joes
Ekman (drums) to create this hard rock/metal album as
Stone Sour. Their music is aggressive and powerful nu-metal
but less intense than Slipknot. Corey Taylor's familiar
screaming voice is present but that's not all he does.
Their music has plenty of melody where Corey Taylor
provides melodic singing. The heavy rhythmic guitars
created are nice and heavy nu-metal sounds with a bit
of Pantera like flavors. Openers "Get Inside," "Orchids,"
"Cold Reader" and "Inhale" are some good examples. On
songs like "Monolith," "Blue Study" and "Take A Number"
are heavy but melodic with catchy hooks and cool guitar
solos and Corey Taylor's melodic singing is great on
them. Speaking of melodic, "Bother" is a great mellow
ballad that was also featured on the recent Spider-Man
soundtrack. "Idle Hands" and "Tumult" are other cool
metal songs and the final track "Omega" is a spoken
word, which is very interesting. Stone Sour is an awesome
metal album. Of course you Slipknot fans must get this
along with the Murderdolls album (features another Slipknot
member on guitar) and if you like nu-metal stuff this,
this is the record for you. It's great to hear successful
bands like Slipknot's members doing other things along
the side and most of all these records are not like
any lame ass side project but they are awesome records.
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