Corey Taylor was recently interviewed by Billboard.com and among the topics discussed, were his thoughts on the next Stone Sour album. 18 songs have been demoed and according to the article, their plans now them entering the studio sometime this fall to begin recording it. Taylor said of it:

“It’s some of the best shit we’ve ever written. I’m champing at the bit to record it and get it ready to go. The cool thing is that it’s got a lot of different directions, but at it’s core it’s very hard rock, and I mean that in an almost sort of modern/classic sense. There are some hints of punk in there. There’s some cool hard rock/heavy metal. - Advertisement - There’s just all these really cool elements that we’ve never really allowed ourselves to go into. We’re really to kind of push even further with this. It’ll feel like it’s all over the map, but it will be very unifying when everyone hears it. It’s exciting, man.”

Taylor also spoke of his guest appearance on the new Korn track, “A Different World“, which is set for their new album, “The Serenity Of Suffering” (out October 21st.) Taylor told Billboard of that: