Metallica ... And Justice for All and Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood were the innovative "event" albums in childhood Corey Taylor, which required in the future position of a rock star in line for hours, and then listen for a few days in a row, got recording time at home.
Stone Sour frontman determined to find a 21-century counterpart. For him, it involves comics.
Taylor writing the House of Gold & Bones, the four issue mini-series by Dark Horse Comics, and the first comic work debuting April 17, 2013, which gives a visual representation of the short story told in two upcoming Stone Sour album concept. First, the House of Gold & Bones Part 1 (Roadrunner Records), arrives Oct. 22, and Part 2 drops during spring / summer.
"This is something I have always wanted to do," says Taylor, a hardcore fan of comic books, which he will be signing at New York's Javits Center on Saturday during his inaugural trip to New York Comic Con. "I was always very critical, when comics go south and you just pull the fan from what is potential.
"I am very much putting my money where your mouth is."
Taylor is the latest rocker to join the fold Dark horse: Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello wrote a series Orchild My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way took two miniseries The Umbrella Academy for the publisher. (The road will also detail his NYCC coming true Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys book.)
Sci-fi/fantasy story home in the heart of Gold & Bones is also a morality play "set in this crazy world in which nothing is really what it seems, but inside it is really about life and the concept of evolution and change," Taylor he says.
A man is a man who has to figure out what the rest of life is, allowing yourself to change and be the person I always wanted to be or continue to keep making the same mistakes, bad choices and "spinning its wheels in the mud of life."
"I wanted people to be able to put yourself in his shoes and be able to refer to it right away," says Taylor, who is also the lead singer of metal band Slipknot masked. "The Human basically spends most of his time confused or scared or fixing in many ways."
The second hero Peckinpah (inspired by director Sam West) is similar to Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars fame: "He is older and Human tries to help while at the same time not doing anything for him," Taylor said.
A pair of antagonists, and. Alan is a ball of anger and sarcastic wit that can explode at any moment, and Black John is a dangerous, off-kilter, "God, he will destroy us all" atmosphere.
Some of the central story is from the people around him, but most of it is autobiographical for Taylor and the aspects of her life, she tried to find out in the last seven years.
"Especially in the (music) industry, we encourage you to not only appear to be so young and arrogant as possible, but you are encouraged to make their own decisions and horrible to have this kind of disgusting behavior. People think that it sells," Taylor explains.
"I figured out a long time ago that it's so boring and so trite. For me it was about shuffling to and find out who I want to be? Who I want to try to be who I aspire to be?"
Taylor says he is "voracious" action-figure collector who, bags, boards and alphabetizes all his comics, "because I'm a nut like that." He is proud to tell you about the time last year at San Diego Comic-Con, where he found a supplier who had both mint-in-box toy Alien film of the 1980 Godzilla and Shogun Warriors had been hunting forever.
In the early Stone Sour year in the mid-1990s, Taylor fell in love with comics in the Marvel Comics "Clonage Maximum" story that was Spider-Man, but he burned the music of "the establishment, tired," he says.
A few years later, Taylor returned to comics, when his friends in the comic store changed it to Warren Ellis 'Transmetropolitan Preacher especially Garth Ennis'. "It was so smart, so funny, so smart, so incredibly offensive that I became a fan right away," says Taylor Ennis masterpiece '.
Rocker was welcome comic scripting challenge, as well as work on the main story for the album concept, music and lyrics maneuver to where the conduct of the narrative.
"The songs and lyrics are in fact internal dialogue that is going on with these characters," Taylor says. "It may not be telling a story that is in the story, but it gives you a little insight into what the character is thinking at the moment."
In addition, Taylor plans to add more multimedia and good website full of hidden eggs such as handwritten lyrics, behind-the-scenes photos, and possibly a test of the comic.
It's all part of his plan to re-make the album essential for fans and create a journey that can be compared to the days of venturing out to a music store, finding the likes of Guns N Appetite 'Roses For Destruction and Favorites others and wrapping the music for a few days.
"It's so real to me, as it does," Taylor says. "I still care about what I do, and if that means going above and beyond, losing sleep, making sure that whatever I put out there is bigger and better and ahead of his time, than all, then so be it."
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