Corey Taylor has performed the Spongebob Squarepants theme live with Spongebob Squarepants voice actor Tom Kenny.

The Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist is currently on the promo trail for his upcoming second solo full-length CMF2. When circumstance found him at the Huntington Comic and Toy Convention on the same day as Kenny he couldn't resist the opportunity to perform the iconic theme song with the voice of Spongebob himself. 

A band backed Taylor and Kenny for the performance. Taylor confessed the one-off duet with Kenny had him a little overwhelmed, revealing he was "the most nervous I’ve ever been in my whole career" before absolutely nailing the performance. You can watch the full song below. 

Taylor has frequently covered the theme during his solo career, dating as far back as 2011,  so performing it with Kenny impacted him.  

Last month Taylor released a blistering new solo single Post Traumatic Blues.

The second taste of his forthcoming second solo release CMF2, Post Traumatic Blues is a far heavier outing than lead single Beyond, with the iconic voice behind Slipknot and Stone Sour exorcising some demons. 

“‘Post Traumatic Blues’ is my attempt to describe for people what it’s like to deal with PTSD,” says Taylor. “Sometimes it’s so hard for people to understand the ups and downs, the severity of the cold and numbness, that I wanted to try and build a bridge lyrically between the ones living with the disease and the ones who are trying to help them.”

Set for release on September 15th via Decibel Cooper/BMG, CMF2 is available for pre-order now here.  CMF2 will be the sequel to Taylor's 2020 solo debut CMFT and follow-up B-sides collection CMFB...Sides. 

Speaking to Classic Rock while promoting  CMF2, Taylor let slip that Slipknot percussionist and creative visionary Clown, once willingly ate a public toilet urinal cake in an attempt to impress or gross out, Pantera's Dimebag Darrell. 

The hygienically questionable act took place during an early Slipknot tour. When the tour rolled into Dallas, the late Paul brothers (Dimebag and Vinnie) turned up and after the show took the Slipknot guys to the infamous Clubhouse strip club. It was there that the groups got into a bit of a contest to see who could pull the biggest prank or dare, and as you might expect, given the people and substances involved things got out of hand pretty quickly as Taylor recalled.

 “They were all about doing pranks on people. "Clown was like, 'Whatever you try, I’m not going to baulk.' They had one of their cooks hollow out a tomato and fill it with these insanely fiery red chilli peppers.  “Dime pulls out this tomato stuffed with this stupid knot of chilis and he goes, “How much is it gonna cost to get all this down?” And Clown goes, “I don’t need your money”, and just grabs it and starts eating it like an apple.

“It gets worse. We head to the bathroom, and we're pissing at the urinal. There’s a piece of gum on one of the cakes in the urinal, and Dime looks over and goes, ‘Alright, Clown, how much would it take…’ Before he can finish, Clown reaches down, grabs it and starts chewing. It was so fucking gross. 

“Dime just threw his hands up. He talked about it until the day he died: “Clown, he was the one motherfucker I couldn’t get to collapse, he just fucked me up.”

Slipknot's 2009 headline show at Madison Square Garden will be released on vinyl this August.  Set for release on August 18th, the 2LP Live at MSG  will mark the first time the show has ever been made available on vinyl. Considered a landmark moment by both band and fans, the Live at MSG performance saw the band take over the 'Word's Greatest Arena', filling it with maggots and treating them to a night they'd never forget. 

Live at MSG serves as a time capsule for a moment in which Slipknot were celebrating their first ever US #1 album All Hope Is Gone. A pristine recording of the band at their most visceral, Live at MSG took place eight months and nine countries into the All Hope Is Gone world tour, and showcases the group in jaw-dropping form. The release will also commemorate the 15th anniversary of All Hope Is Gone.

The artwork for the Live at MSG release was created by Slipknot percussionist and creative visionary, M Shawn (Clown) Crahan

The 2LP black vinyl Live at MSG is available to pre-order now via Maniacs. 

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