Come What (Ever) May - Stone Sour

My throat is sore, just listening (2100 words)
by Staffenburg - written on 28/09/10 (Very useful, 69 readings)
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American rock band S Stone Sour were founded by Corey Taylor and Joel Ekman in 1992. The early years proved problematic with many changes or personnel amongst the band between gigs. It was not until the inclusion of Jim Root in 1995 and their third demo tape that things began to take shape. However, 1997 the band took a long break, during which frontman Corey Taylor and Jim Root combined to front Slipknot also from Des Moines, Iowa, where they duly earned a first record deal. In fact many of you, well few of you may have heard of Slipknot, whereas Stone Sour are pretty much unheard of in the UK. The styles of music are the same, although Slipknot are very heavy metal, and ...

Stone Sour - Stone Sour

Slipknot mit Singing (602 words)
by wastingtime - written on 17/11/03, updated on 17/11/03 (Very useful, 160 readings)
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off to this band to release what I feel is one of the best rock albums in the last decade. I call it a side project, however, S Stone Sour does pre-date Slipknot, even though this is the debut album, it is for that reason alone that I think Stone Sour gel better and perform better than Slipknot, so if you ever liked Slipknot, I?m guessing you?ll like this. Corey let rip with an album which contains pure anger (unlike the new Limp Bizkit album, feel free to go read the review), whilst also putting in some emotional things and even showing the signs of some political thoughts (who would have thought). What you will actually see in this album is that Corey can ...