Corey Taylor has praised Sleep Token and in contrast the mysterious masked band to early Slipknot.
Sleep Token launched their third album ‘Take Me Back To Eden’ on Friday (May 19). Speaking concerning the band in a brand new interview with Allison Hagendorf, Corey Taylor mentioned (by way of Loudwire): “I’ll call them metal, but there’re so many different levels and layers [to the music]. There’s pop elements, there’s jazz elements. I love the fact that nobody really knows who they are. I love the fact that they don’t want to be known.”
“There are hints of early, early Slipknot there,” he continued. “At first we were like, ‘Nope. You get nothing. This is what you get, you figure it out. We’ll let the music speak for ourselves’.”
Speaking to NME earlier this yr, Taylor mentioned Sleep Token had been certainly one of a handful of recent heavy bands nonetheless inspiring him alongside Turnstile and Bad Omens. “You can feel them leaning into the passion. There’s a whole new generation of bands that are starting to come up that are carrying the flag for heavy music,” he mentioned
He went on to disclaim being Sleep Token’s masked singer Vessel although. He added: “Listen, I’ve got more than enough going on. I don’t need a fourth band.”
Taylor went on to say that his upcoming solo album ‘CMF2’ was written in response to the present state of rock music. “There are some good bands out there but for the most part, everything is so soft,” he defined. “It’s the exact opposite of what we had before, where people didn’t want to call themselves ‘rock’. Now, people call themselves rock when it’s actually way more alternative. When are these artists going to take the gloves off? Stop holding back and just fucking go for it.”
‘CMF2’ is due for launch September 15 by way of Taylor’s personal label Decibel Cooper, which is backed by BMG. Earlier this week, he shared the file’s first single ‘Beyond’.
Slipknot are attributable to headline Download Festival subsequent month alongside Metallica and Bring Me The Horizon whereas Sleep Token will play Reading & Leeds, alongside headliners Lewis Capaldi, Foals, Billie Eilish, The Killers, Sam Fender and Imagine Dragons.