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House of Gold and Bones Part 2

01. Red City
02. Black John
03. Sadist
04. Peckinpah
05. Stalemate
06. Gravesend
07. 82
08. The Uncanny Valley
09. Blue Smoke
10. Do Me A Favor
11. The Conflagration
12. The House Of Gold & Bones

[04/09/13]
[Roadrunner Records]

It was a pleasant surprise when Stone Sour’s first installment of a two part concept album with House Of Gold And Bones, Part 1 was released. It had everything and more, from amazing lyrics and some of the best vocals I heard in all of last year. The only question that remained, however, was whether or not they would continue to move forward and be as good on the second installment of this concept, which is completed with this record.

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Few current day bands seem to divide the heavy music community, let alone Heavy Blog’s readers and contributors, like Periphery, and few musicians are as controversial and as outspoken as the band’s mastermind, Misha Mansoor.  So when the band was recently in Melbourne for the Soundwave festival, I jumped at the chance to sit down with Misha and vocalist Spencer Sotelo for an extended chat regarding, amongst other things, their views on their expansive social media footprint and the utility of modern production techniques, as well as a world first exclusive insight into the definitive meaning behind their recently released video to ‘Scarlet‘. To be warned, this interview clocks in at around 6000 words, so if you’ve got a few minutes to spare, check out our interview below!

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INTRONAUT

Photos by Maclyn Bean.

Intronaut are set to release their newest album, the highly anticipated Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones) very soon. They recently did a few shows while trekking to Florida for their upcoming stint with Meshuggah and Animals As Leaders, and when they stopped by Tallahassee, I sat down with Sacha Dunable (vocals/guitar) and Dave Timnick (guitar) to discuss music, inspirations, and their upcoming new album Habitual Levitations.

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Stone Sour‘s House Of Gold & Bones Part 1 was a fantastic record. If you don’t believe me then you should go and do yourself a favor and read my review, then go watch the videos, because it will prove me right. Their newest album was part 1 of a 2 part concept/double album, similar to the way System Of A Down released Mezmerize and Hypnotize just a few months apart. After the great reception their first record of the series got, many people are stoking hard on their upcoming House Of Gold & Bones, Part 2, which will be released April 16th via Roadrunner Records.

The band have also confirmed that there will be a short comic book series released in conjunction with the album, and that the first single would be called ‘Do Me A Favor’, and the albums closing track will be the title track for both albums, sort of a culmination of the entire story. I gather the comic book is similar to what Coheed and Cambria did recently with their coffee-table book except in a much shorter vein. Hopefully it’s cool, because I’m definitely going to pick it up after Part 2 is released. So be prepared for the second part, and in the mean time, go pick up the first, because it’s seriously a great record.

- SS

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House of Gold & Bones Part 1

01. Gone Sovereign
02. Absolute Zero
03. A Rumor Of Skin
04. The Travellers, Part 1
05. Tired
06. RU486
07. My Name Is Allen
08. Taciturn
09. Influence Of A Drowsy God
10. The Travellers, Part 2
11. Last Of The Real

[10/22/12]
[Roadrunner Records]

Stone Sour has had its ups and downs. After releasing two great records in their self-titled debut and Come What(Ever) May, they had garnered audiences that sought both the heavy and radio-friendly sides of the band. Then, they released Audio Secrecy, an album that failed, at least to this reviewer. The same pop-rock songs done to death, uninspiring lyrics and music, and an overall sense of running out of ideas seemed to come over the band. After working so hard to find their ground they got knocked down as swiftly as they found it. So when it was revealed that they would be releasing a double concept album in the form of House Of Gold & Bones, skepticism was everywhere. Could they return to their roots, being heavy and memorable while also developing songs for radio? As far as the first half of the double album goes, they have succeeded.

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I promise you, we don’t all sound as ridiculously posh as the woman interviewing Slipknot/Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor at the beginning of this first episode of his series of Oxford University lectures webs series. Okay, maybe we are a little bit, but he is in Oxford, so take from that what you will.

This is interesting for me. Slipknot and Stone Sour are two bands that I have honestly only heard of by reputation. Corey Taylor’s face is familiar to me only in the above guise, and so this series about something relatively unrelated to the actual music and the theatre surrounding it.

The lecture is about passion and drive, which is something I can get behind. We all lack it sometimes, and I’m very supportive of things that motivate people to fulfil their potential. I’ll stop babbling anyway; here it is:

I do wish he’d given it in his Slipknot mask though. Shit would have been hilarious.

- CG

“FA LA LA LA LA GO FUCK YOURSELF”

The idea of Slipknot/Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor doing a Christmas Song is enough to make everyone cringe. When it came out that he was working on a dirty Christmas single called “X-M@$,” everyone had their palms primed and ready to smack against their faces in shame.

Without the accompanying press release, I’d think Corey was all butthurt and angsty when it comes to Christmas. But as it turns out, the song is a bit of satire, which makes it much more tolerable.

Straight from the horse’s mouth:

“I wrote this song in my kitchen one winter, listening to people bitch about the holidays,” Taylor explained. “Personally, I love the holidays, but they seem to bring on severe stress in most people. So, I wrote this in honor of crotchety, drunken bastards who don’t know the difference between a yuletide and a toolshed. Plus, I think it’s funny. I bet the U.K. will too. They’re some of my favorite people in the world.”

Gotta admit, that was out of the blue. I never thought I’d never see the word “yuletide” come out of Corey’s mouth.

Oh, and did I mention that proceeds of this song will go to the Teen Cancer Trust? Because it is.

Here’s the stream of the song. Enjoy and prepare your attacks at all the Grinches and Scrooges you’ll come across this season. Cheer the fuck up, why don’t you?

Help fight cancer and have a few laughs along the way and buy it when it comes out on December 12th.

- JR

I admit, it’s catchy as hell, but I fucking called it. Audio Secrecy will be a bunch of generic, yet somewhat pleasurable mid-tempo rock songs. Sure, there’s going to be something fast and maybe heavy peppered in there somewhere, but at this stage in their career, why expect anything different?

Audio Secrecy hits stores September 7th on Roadrunner Records, if you’re one of the ones that care.

- JR

You can get Stone Sour‘s new song over at their official website for 48 hours only. I’m not much on this song, other than the guitar solos and the section immediately after, to be honest with you. It still sounds like Stone Sour I guess, so the fans should be pleased.

“Mission Statement” is off of their upcoming album Audio Secrecy, due out September 7th on Roadrunner Records. In other news: this is probably the shortest news post we’ve ever had.

- JR

Stone Sour are in the studio right now doing finishing touches on their upcoming album and have settled on Audio Secrecy as the effort’s title. Cory Taylor says that this is more or less the definitive Stone Sour album, saying:

‘Audio Secrecy’ is the summation of everything we want, everything we crave and everything we fight for. The dimensions go further than anything we’ve ever tried before. It’s metal, rock, slow, soft, hard, fast, bitter, beautiful and most importantly, it’s REAL. You can’t get an album like this out of a band that doesn’t exist. We’re throwing caution out the damn window.”

So, let’s start wild speculation now. I’m ignoring everything Cory says about the album and assuming it’s full of radio hits like “Through Glass,” “Bother,” and “Sillyworld.” The really heavy songs will be few and far between. I mean, if you look at history, nine times out of ten, a band gets softer with each release. And I’m sure the other guys in Stone Sour that aren’t also in Slipknot enjoyed some of that extra “Through Glass” money. So, it’s inevitable. But hey, if I’m proven wrong on this, then I’ll eat my delicious words and will be pleasantly surprised. However, at this stage in their career, I don’t see them going balls-out heavy on here. My prediction: Audio Secrecy will be a decent rock album.

Find out if I hit the nail on the head or miss the mark and smash my thumb late this summer when it drops (or mid-summer whenever it leaks).

- JR

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