Stone Sour bio
As intoxicating as the libation he was named after,Stone Sour is a Molotov cocktail of an album - 1 part pure adrenaline rock with a splash of melody. "We melodic hard-rock with content and initiative," explains Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor. "Stone Sour allows me to execute the style that I love writing and may not necessarily do with Slipknot." While still embracing the actual weight to the pleas of Taylor and Root's other band, Stone Sour offers a more intimate and introspective take music Thus, the absence while performing their masks with Stone Sour.
Originally formed in 1992 by Taylor and drummer Joel Ekman, Stone Sour is the product of ten years, the value of determination, patience and creative expression. Friend of long date of Taylor, bassist Shawn Economaki, joined the fold soon after the start of the band. Without genuine pre-sonic different direction to write good songs.
The turn came in 1995, when guitarist Jim Root - which later joined with Slipknot Corey Taylor - found his way to a practice. This was a time when it meant making a band as a unit. For five years, Stone Sour generated pure passion for the music that do not concern themselves with a particular gender, but maintaining a solid based on good hard rock, killer melody and emotional peaks and valleys.
But in 1997, disenchanted and burned out, Taylor quit Stone Sour to join Slipknot, leaving the others to go their separate ways. Joel started a family, while Jim joined Slipknot one year after Corey. Shawn became a stage manager for the 'Knot. The legacy that Stone Sour had created remained a glass half full.