Stone Sour [PA]

Performer: Stone Sour
Engineer: Tom Tatman; James Barton
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and mulitmedia computer files. Stone Sour: Corey Taylor (vocals); Jim Root, Josh Rand (guitar); Sean Economaki (bass); Joel Ekman (drums). Additional personnel: Sid Wilson (turntables). Recorded at Catamount Studios, Cedar Falls, Iowa. "Inhale" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. "Get Inside" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. Includes a bonus DVD. Stone Sour: Corey Taylor (vocals); Jim Root, Josh Rand (guitar); Sean Economaki (bass); Joel Ekman (drums). Additional personnel: Sid Wilson (turntables). Producers: Tom Tatman, Stone Sour, James "Jimbo" Barton, Corey Taylor. Recorded at Catamount Studios, Cedar Falls, Iowa. "Inhale" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. "Get Inside" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. Stone Sour isn't the first successful Slipknot side project; the Murderdolls (just barely) beat them to the starting gate. Like that group, though, Stone Sour actually started out long before Slipknot, but was ultimately revisited as an alternative to the Slipknot grind. Knotmen (if you will) Corey Taylor and Jim Root and their Stone Sour brethren offer nu-metal that's fully as hard-hitting as that of their day-job group, but with considerably more thoughtful compositional techniques and melodic sensibility. Sure, Taylor occasionally breaks into a gut-wrenching scream, but just as often he's twisting his voice around a serpentine melodic line that brings Alice in Chains to mind more than anything in the nu-metal lexicon. Stone Sour isn't the first successful Slipknot side project; the Murderdolls (just barely) beat them to the starting gate. Like that group, though, Stone Sour actually started out long before Slipknot, but was ultimately revisited as an alternative to the Slipknot grind. Knotmen (if you will) Corey Taylor and Jim Root and their Stone Sour brethren offer nu-metal that's fully as hard-hitting as that of their day-job group, but with considerably more thoughtful compositional techniques and melodic sensibility. Sure, Taylor occasionally breaks into a gut-wrenching scream, but just as often he's twisting his voice around a serpentine melodic line that brings Alice in Chains to mind more than anything in the nu-metal lexicon.

Q (3/04, p.118) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[N]eo-grunge with bursts of metallic fury..."

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