Corey Taylor has announced his second solo album CMFT2 and shared the lead single Beyond. The iconic voice behind Slipknot and Stone Sour takes a turn for the romantic on Beyond, delivering a heartfelt yet aggressive love song.
Beyond arrives accompanied by an official video shot in California's Mojave Desert. Captured through the lens of director Dale “Rage” Resteghini (Hatebreed, Five Finger Death Punch, Trivium), the video finds Taylor trudging around the desert as a musing Uncle Sam intermingling with members of the band and the Cherry Bombs – all the while being surrounded by different versions of himself from through the years – before culminating as a live performance for a mass of fans in the round.
In a statement, Taylor reveals that Beyond harkens back to 2006 in some shape or form. Taylor knew the song was special, but never found the time to bring the tune to its potential. “I originally wrote it as an aggressive romantic song, but I'm also looking at it now as a kind of ‘come together’ song,” Taylor explains. “Bringing the masses together, and letting them know that I want my music to take them beyond what they may think about me. Maybe they’ve had a misconception about me. It’s not exactly a calling card, more like throwing the bat signal up and being ‘alright, let's turn everything on its head.’ It’s almost a dual threat, because now I look at it from two standpoints.”
The always outspoken Taylor, has been doing the press rounds for the record announcement, and absolutely let loose on the usage of AI in music production during a conversation with Loudwire Nights. As transcribed by Loudwire, Taylor confirms he is not a fan of the current trend of using AI to create music featuring vocal cloning.
"It's cheap shit." "I don't know what it is about human beings—they keep fucking opening Pandora's box for God's sake. It's scary, dude. I thought deep fake was bad and now here comes AI and all you do is teach this thing to do this or you type this thing to do that and all of a sudden it's just there. How much more do we want to lessen—and I mean lessen as in detract from—what we actually do as human beings? How much more do we want to take away from our own creativity? How much more do we want to make reality completely fucking pointless or better yet, how much do we completely want to devalue true talent, true creativity, true hard work, true persistence and heart to the point now that people are going to question whether it's you or not. It's so fucking ridiculous."
Set for release on September 15th via Decibel Cooper/BMG, CMFT2 is available for pre-order now here. CMFT2 will be the sequel to Taylor's 2020 solo debut CMFT and follow-up B-sides collection CMFB...Sides.
Taylor has also let slip the membership of the CMFT band which consists of Dustin Robert (drums) Christian Martucci (guitar), Eilot Lorango (bass), Zach Throne (guitar) and Corey Taylor.
Taylor's main project, Slipknot recently completed a sold-out, three-date run of Knotfest Australia.
Australian maggot's first opportunity to hear tracks from Slipknot's seventh full-length album The End, So Far and their 2019 record We Are Not Your Kind, with The Dying Song (Time To Sing) from the former and All Out Life and Unsainted from the latter making their live debuts down under at Knotfest Melbourne.
Produced collaboratively by Joe Baressi (Queens Of The Stone Age, Soundgarden, Avenged Sevenfold, Parkway Drive) and Slipknot, The End, So Far is the follow-up to Slipknot’s 2019 We Are Not Your Kind which marked the band’s third consecutive #1 on the ARIA album chart.
To celebrate the widely anticipated release we caught up with Slipknot bass player, Alessandro 'V-Man' Venturella for a discussion about all things The End, So Far, if you haven't already, head on over and give it a read.
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