Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor called out critics recently, dismissing the sentiment that the two bands sound alike.
People who express that way of thinking, Taylor said, choose to take the easy way of describing his bands, Blabbermouth reports. "I think a lot of it comes down to my voice," he said during an appearance in Las Vegas. "Like, there's a lot of people that think when I sing heavy with Stone Sour that I'm trying to do Slipknot. And then vice versa — when I sing more melodic with Slipknot, I'm trying to be more Stone Sour. And it's, like, but you're not hearing the music, you're putting everything together."
Taylor cited the new Slipknot song as a prime example. "...A lot of people compared it to Stone Sour because a lot of it is melodic until it gets to that chorus and it punches, you know. And I'm, like, 'Ehhh ... Not really.'
"And I think it's because a lot of people, for better or for worse, choose the easy way to figure out what they're thinking about, or what their opinion is," he continued. "So if they read somebody say, 'Well, he's singing melodically, it has to be Stone Sour,' a lot of people pick that up, because it's easier to go with the crowd than it is to think differently. But we encourage our fans to try and do that stuff."
Slipknot's new album, .5: The Gray Chapter, is out October 21. The band just released the third single from the album, "Custer," yesterday (October 10). Stone Sour is currently working on a covers album that will be out in early 2015. The band's last album, House of Gold & Bones - Part 2, made it to number 9 on the Billboard 200 chart.
