{"id":974126,"date":"2019-12-19T08:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=922205"},"modified":"2019-12-19T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:22:51","slug":"so-how-was-your-decade-corey-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/so-how-was-your-decade-corey-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"So, How Was Your Decade, Corey Taylor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, How Was Your Decade<\/a> is a series in which the decade\u2019s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We\u2019ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. <\/em><\/p>\n

Ever since Slipknot<\/a> broke out in the late Nineties, frontman Corey Taylor<\/a> has become one of the most outspoken men in metal. And he has only become more omnipresent in the last 10 years. \u201cPrepare yourself for anything I say to get reposted on a million different social media news sites,\u201d he says before he even starts looking back at the 2010s. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because he has a lot to talk about. The last decade for Taylor has been filled with highs and lows; it started with the death of Slipknot bassist Paul Gray in 2010 and eventually the departure of founding drummer Joey Jordison. Yet the masked marauders put out two Number One albums this decade, 2014\u2019s .5: The Gray Chapter<\/em> and this year\u2019s We Are Not Your Kind<\/em>, and Taylor also released four more albums and a few EPs with his other group Stone Sour. Then there\u2019s the four books of social commentary, an appearance in his bandmate Shawn \u201cClown\u201d Crahan\u2019s film Officer Downe<\/em> and numerous spoken word and acoustic shows as a solo artist.<\/p>\n

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But looking back on the decade, he\u2019s most concerned about his status as a metal loudmouth. When we\u2019re done talking, he says, \u201cLet me know if you get in trouble for half the shit I said. At this point, I think it was pretty tame.\u201d When Rolling Stone<\/em> offers him one last chance to rail against everything he hates now that he has the mic, he laughs. \u201cHomie, I\u2019ve always got the mic, whether I like it or not,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

My favorite album of the 2010s was:<\/strong> It\u2019s probably Pressure and Time<\/em> by the Rival Sons. That album contains everything they do great. They dabble in so many different styles and they make it work so well, and they\u2019re such an organic band. They\u2019re probably my favorite band of the last 10 years \u2026 or the last 15, really.<\/p>\n

Everybody gives people props to these really derivative bands \u2014 and I\u2019m not gonna mention any names, but you know exactly who I\u2019m talking about \u2014 but Rival Sons, their creativity, their songwriting, their musicianship, their style, their talent is off the charts. And that album, specifically to me, is so goddamn good. You can listen to it from top to bottom and it\u2019s just fantastic.<\/p>\n

My favorite song of the 2010s was:<\/strong> \u201cElektra\u201d by Refused. As someone who waited a long time for them to come back, that song set the tone. That album has got amazing tunes on it. It was kind of a tossup between that and \u201cWar on the Palaces,\u201d but \u201cElektra\u201d is just three minutes of pure Refused. It\u2019s an off-time riff that you never think is going to resolve the way it\u2019s going to, and the delivery is just so fucking frenetic and awesome. That same riff can be played six different times in a different way and it never gets old. It\u2019s really fucking cool.<\/p>\n