COREY TAYLOR

'Corey Todd Taylor' (born December 8, 1973 in Des Moines, Iowa) is the lead vocalist for Slipknot, a nine-piece metal band and founding member for hard rock band Stone Sour.

Contents

Musical career

Personal life

Discography

Slipknot

Stone Sour

''Other''

References

Cited references

External links

Musical career

Taylor began his music career in his teens, performing with many bands in Des Moines.¹ Stone Sour was formed in the early 90s and became one of the biggest bands on the gradually growing Des Moines music scene. He was recruited by Slipknot as their lead vocalist with whom he got his biggest break, Slipknot got signed to Roadrunner Records in 1998 and are noted as to be one of the biggest bands in nu-metal. In 2000 Taylor was approached by ex-Stone Sour band member Josh Rand with songs he had been working on, eventually they worked their way back to a near same line-up as the previous Stone Sour and in 2002 they released their self-titled album. With the help of Taylor already been an established star, the revival Stone Sour was thought to be the end of Slipknot. This wasn't the case as they rejoined in 2004 to released their third album . Taylor has said that Slipknot and Stone Sour are like children to him, it would be unfair to pick a favourite and enjoys being a part of both of these hugely successful bands. In 2006 Stone Sour returned with their second album Come What(ever) May an album which brought about even more recognition to Stone Sour and established them as more than just a Slipknot side project.
Corey also has two cover bands Audacious P and Dum Fux. The first of which is mostly a Tenacious D cover band. Corey has also contributed vocals to several bands including Damage Plan, Soulfly, Snot's memorial album for Lynn Strait of Snot, and worked with emerging metal band Slitheryn on the track Lost.
Taylor contributed vocals to the Finnish Cello-Metal band Apocalyptica on the single "I'm Not Jesus".
Taylor planned on contributing to thrash metal band Anthrax' latest untitled album.^[4][5] But due to Taylor's many projects they conflict with their schedule and Taylor will be contributing to a few songs not the whole album, as first planned.^[6] Taylor is currently signed to Roadrunner Records. ^[7]

Personal life

Corey grew up poor not knowing his father who he met in later life to eventually build a strong relationship with^[8].
Corey is divorced to his long-time wife and mother to his three children, Scarlett^[9] of whom he has multiple related tattoos on his body.^[10]

Discography

Main articles: Slipknot discography, Stone Sour#Discography, l2=Stone Sour discography

Slipknot ★ ''Slipknot'' (1999) ★ ''Iowa'' (2001) ★ '' (2004) ★ '' (2005)'' (live album)

Stone Sour ★ ''Stone Sour'' (2002) ★ ''Come What(ever) May'' (2006) ''Other'' ★ ''Strait Up'' (2000) ★ ''Primitive'' (2000) ★ '' (2002) ★ ''New Found Power'' (2004) ★ ''The All-Star Sessions'' (2005) ★ ''Worlds Collide'' (2007) ★ '' I´m not Jesus feat. Apocalyptica (Single)'' (2007)

References

Cited references

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2. All Music Guide article on Slipknot Steve Huey
3. Rockdetector Article Garry Sharpe-Young
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