Stone Sour have shared a demo version of “Threadbare.” The final version of that track appeared on the band’s 2010 album “Audio Secrecy.“ Guitarist Josh Rand commented:
“Another one of the three songs that Roy had. Music was recorded at Roy‘s, Vocals recorded at Shawn‘s. Enjoy, Josh Rand”
Stone Sour have shared a demo version of “Pieces.” The final version of that track appeared on the band’s 2010 album “Audio Secrecy.“ Guitarist Josh Rand commented:
“One of the other songs Corey brought in was Pieces. Recored at Shawn’s sometime in 2008. Enjoy, Josh”
Stone Sour have shared a demo version of “Hesitate.” The final version of that track appeared on the band’s 2010 album “Audio Secrecy.“ Guitarist Josh Rand commented:
“‘Hesitate‘ was one of the 1st songs Corey brought into the demo sessions for ‘Audio Secrecy‘. It was a recorded at Shawn‘s sometime in 2008 I think.”
Stone Sour have shared a demo version of “Unfinished.” The final version of that track appeared on the band’s 2010 album “Audio Secrecy.“ Guitarist Josh Rand commented:
“The main riff for Unfinished had been rolling around in my head for awhile. I was able to flush out most of the idea with Jeremy Colson when we were at Sun Prairie Studios. It wasn’t until a year later when Corey came over and sang on it that it became a Stone Sour song.”
During an interview on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation,” Corey Taylor offered an update on Stone Sour’s current status. According to him, the band “is kind of on hiatus right now.”
The frontman said the following:
“Yeah, [STONE SOUR is] kind of [on] the backburner right now. We all kind of felt that we did exactly what we wanted to do on [2017’s] ‘Hydrograd’ [album] and we’re just giving it a minute. I talked to the guys in the band about the solo thing and what I wanted to do, and they were all totally onboard with it. Everybody else has kind of got things going on, so they’re all cool. Josh [Rand, guitar] is actually working on a solo thing of his own, which is great. So, yeah, I think STONE SOUR is kind of on hiatus right now, which is fine. If someday we wanna get back together and do some stuff, it’ll be bigger than it was. But for right now, we’re all kind of focused on kind of doing our own thing. But you never say never in this business.”
[via Blabbermouth]
Stone Sour have shared a demo version of “Nylon 6/6.” The final version of that track appeared on the band’s 2010 album “Audio Secrecy.“ Guitarist Josh Rand commented:
“By the time we started to work on Audio Secrecy, we were all writing on our own. Audio Secrecy was the 1st time Roy brought music into the band. Nylon 6/6 was one of the three tracks he sent us. Corey ended up cutting the vocals for these tracks at Shawn’s house.”
Stone Sour have shared a demo version of “Freeze Dry Seal.” The final version of that song appeared as a bonus track on the special edition of the band’s 2006 album “Come What(ever) May.“ Josh Rand commented:
“‘Freeze Dry Seal‘ was written & demoed by Shawn in 2005 at his house. The final version would be on the special edition of ‘Come Whatever May‘.”
Stone Sour have shared a demo version of “The Bitter End,” which was originally titled “Used Future.” The final version of that track appeared on the band’s 2010 album “Audio Secrecy.“ Guitarist Josh Rand commented:
“When I was backing up my hard drives in 2008, I came across the song Ending/Beginning that was recorded for the Project X demo in 2000. For whatever reason, we didn’t use it back then so I thought I would give it a little facelift by speeding up the song and making the guitar riffs more aggressive. Although The Bitter End would be on Audio Secrecy, Used Future was Corey’s 2nd go at the lyrics.”
Stone Sour have shared a demo version of their song “Digital (Did You Tell).” The final version of that track appeared on the band’s 2010 album “Audio Secrecy.“ Guitarist Josh Rand commented:
“James initially came up with the ideas for what would become Digital while he was out touring with Slipknot in 2008. This is the earliest version of the song recorded at Shawn‘s in 2009.”
Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) recently auctioned off 13 signed guitars to raise money for Direct Relief‘s COVID-19 response efforts. The auction ended up raising $75,000, which eBay For Charity matched to give the organization a donation of $150,000.
