Slipknot frontman (and musicals lover) Corey Taylor has been "tinkering" with a musical based on his 20s in Des Moines, Iowa, and how his misfits crew "kind of saved each other".
Corey Taylor has already got a pretty busy 2021 planned – having recently told Kerrang! about his hopes to tour, do a movie and write his fifth book – but the Slipknot frontman has revealed he could well add another thing to his stacked plate: a musical.
It's well documented that Corey is a huge fan of the theatre (he even has a 24601 tattoo on his back, the prison code of Les Misérables' lead character Jean Valjean), and now he might bring his own idea to life, revealing on the Talkulture Twitch channel that he's been "toying with the idea" of writing a musical.
"I've kind of gotten in the habit of doing concept albums, obviously, so I know how to tie a story together," he explains (via Blabbermouth). "And I've been toying with the idea of writing a musical based around the people who I spent a large amount of my 20s with in Des Moines [Iowa] – like my crew, and how we all found each other, how the misfits came together and found each other, and we kind of saved each other.
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"We all came from these crazy balls of emotional abuse and neglect and dealing with problems, but we didn't know what the names of the problems were," Corey continues. "The only thing that saved us was the fact that getting together made us feel like we weren't alone. And it made us feel that if we had each other as support and as friends and as somebody to talk to, maybe we could work our way through it. And in that time, I was exposed to everything – so much new music, so much different music, so much new literature, movies. It was the catalyst for everything that I am now."
The musician jokes that he's a "scatterbrain" and therefore doesn't know "if I'll ever get it done". "But it's definitely something that I feel more passionate about now than I did about 10 years ago when I thought of it," he concludes. "And I'm actually getting more confident now in my piano playing, which is what I would write it on. It would just be something like another passion project, just to see what would happen."
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Catch Slipknot in Europe this summer:
July
16 Moscow Park Live Festival – Russia
18 Kiev Upark Festival – Ukraine
21 Bucharest Romexpo – Romania
22 Plovdiv Hills Of Rock – Bulgaria
24 Athens Release Festival – Greece
28 Graz Stadthalle – Austria
29 Prague O2 Arena – Czech Republic
31 Wacken Open Air – Germany
August
1 Malmö Rock Slap Festival – Sweden
7 Port Of Turku – Finland
13 Gdansk Ergo Arena – Poland
15 Geneva Arena – Switzerland
19 Charleville-Mézières Cabaret Vert Festival – France
