Stone Sour

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor's solo tour - which will feature acoustic performances, spoken word segments, and Q&As with fans - was announced on Wednesday, but now we've got this very special video from Corey himself, which adds a whole other dimension to the thing. Witness it below. The audiobook version of Taylor's Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good is available now on iTunes; click here to get it..

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor is embarking on a solo acoustic tour this fall and winter, which will include a spoken-word segment along with the musical performances, and which will also feature a Q&A with fans at each stop. The audiobook version of Taylor's Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good is available now on iTunes; click here to get it. Here are the tour dates: Nov. 14 - House of Blues - Anaheim, CA Nov.

Professionally shot footage of Stone Sour's entire 60-minute performance from this weekend's Rock In Rio festival can now be seen below. For this set, the band was joined by former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, replacing Roy Mayorga, whose wife is about to give birth. The band's full set list was: Mission Statement Reborn Made of Scars Digital (Did You Tell) Orchids Say You'll Haunt Me Come What(ever) May Your God Bother Through Glass Get Inside Hell & Consequences 30/30-150 And here's the video: .

Stone Sour have announced that former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy will be joining them behind the kit, subbing in for the group's regular drummer Roy Mayorga, for a one-off upcoming show at the world-renowned Rock In Rio Festival on September 24. Said Portnoy: “It's my honor and pleasure to be able to help out my good friends in Stone Sour and my brother Roy in their time of need.  It's also an unexpected treat for me to get another visit with some of the greatest fans in the world down in Brazil.” Stone Sour and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor said, “We've been waiting a long time for the opportunity to come to South America.

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Artisan News Service conducted interviews with several musicians to get their thoughts on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In the video below, Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor talks about the impact the attacks had on a Slipknot tour (in support of the then-new album Iowa) that was supposed to begin that week. .

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor was interviewed by Artisan News Service at the premiere of the documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, directed by Osbourne's son Jack, and he spoke about his love of and respect for Ozzy. Said Taylor, "I think the thing that makes Ozzy so legendary is the fact that even after all this time, he still does it for the pure pleasure of doing it.

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Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor performed an acoustic set this weekend at Staind frontman Aaron Lewis's It Takes A Community benefit concert, with proceeds from ticket sales going to local elementary schools. Taylor sang Stone Sour's "Bother" and Slipknot's "Snuff," making sure to bleep himself in deference to the all-ages crowd. He also performed some cover songs (Pink Floyd's "Nobody Home" and Tom Petty's "You Got Lucky") and combined the Stone Sour song "Through Glass" with Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" for an intriguing opening medley.

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor was recently interviewed by Artisan News Service about the audio version of his book Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good. In the clip below (which also includes footage of him performing an acoustic, country-ish version of Slipknot's "Spit It Out"), he discusses who he'd have read his work, if it was up to him.