STONE SOUR Is Back In The Studio

STONE SOUR has returned to Room 237, the Burbank, California recording studio owned and operated by the band’s drummer, Roy Mayorga, to work on material for the follow-up to its last collection of original music, “House Of Gold And Bones”, a double concept album which was released in two parts in 2012 and 2013.

Several photos and video clips from the latest studio sessions can be found below.

STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor recently said that the band has fourteen new songs written and recorded in demo form. He told Eddie Trunk that the group’s new CD will go “in a different reaction than the older stuff — like a little more rock and roll, a little more expanding the range again.”

STONE SOUR, has released two EPs of cover songs — “Meanwhile In Burbank…” and “Straight Out Of Burbank” — and was slated to issue a third, titled “No Sleep ‘Till Burbank”, but those plans now appear to have been scrapped. Taylor told the “Someone Who Isn’t Me” podcast: “Originally we were going to do three [covers EPs], and now it sounds like we’re just going to do the two and just keep the other stuff we recorded as extra content for when we make the next album.”

Taylor‘s touring schedule with SLIPKNOT means that STONE SOUR won’t return to the road until sometime next year.

STONE SOUR last year named guitarist Christian Martucci as the permanent replacement for Jim Root, who was dismissed from the band in late 2013 after he decided to sit out the group’s last tour in order to begin working on the new SLIPKNOT album. Martucci was recruited to play on that tour and was confirmed as a permanent member in March 2015 in a Facebook post.

Root did not speak kindly of STONE SOUR in interviews after he was fired, saying, “Some of the guys in STONE SOUR, I think they just want to be a radio band and write strictly for radio and try to be more of a poppy rock band. And that’s not really what I’m into. There’s at least one guy in the band that’s only concerned about money. I really have no desire to associate with people like that anymore.”

Root played on all five STONE SOUR studio records to date, including 2010’s “Audio Secrecy” and “House Of Gold & Bones”.

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— MEGA-GEEK MELTDOWN!! (@CoreyTaylorRock) March 28, 2016