Corey Taylor took to Twitter to explain what he meant by “I might step away from Slipknot”
February 26, 2016
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor had to take to his Twitter page to clarify what he meant in a recent interview when he said that he “might step away from Slipknot at some point”. Without digging the context of the comment, many media had picked up the sentence and kicked up a fuss out of nothing.
The media relay started when in the podcast Someone Who Isn’t Me Slipknot singer was asked if he thought he will ever get “tired of touring,” to which Taylor replied, “Honestly, if you’d asked me a year ago, I would have said no. But… I’m just kind of starting to. I’m forty-two; I’m not young anymore. And as willing as my will is, I’m just beat up, man. I mean, I might as well be sixty in Slipknot years, for Christ’s sake … I don’t know if I would retire. I might step away from Slipknot at some point, just because the way the music is, and that sense of energy, I don’t know if I could be able to do that into my fifties. And I would never want the band to feel like I was holding them back, because I just couldn’t physically do it. So that means I wouldn’t completely quit music; I would probably just step away from Slipknot.”
After numerous comments by worried fans as to whether Taylor was thinking of leaving the band, the vocalist posted on Twitter: “I’M NOT QUITTING SLIPKNOT. Listen to/read interviews IN CONTEXT not out. I talk about time off. This is why I dislike ‘cut n paste’ journos.”
Slipknot’s next studio record reportedly might be a double concept album. The effort will be the follow-up to .5: The Gray Chapter, which came out in 2014. Corey Taylor also shared his intention to focus on his other band Stone Sour in 2017. So far Stone Sour have written and recorded the demos of 14 new songs for their next effort. The group’s latest album to date was House Of Gold And Bones, released in 2013-2014.
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I’M NOT QUITTING SLIPKNOT.
Listen to/read interviews IN CONTEXT not out. I talk about time off. This is why I dislike ‘cut n paste’ journos.— MEGA-GEEK MELTDOWN!! (@CoreyTaylorRock) February 25, 2016