Music Review: Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy

January 15, 2011 2 By Vinayak Gole

Stone Sour Cover
Audio CD (September 7, 2010)
Original Release Date: 2010
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Special Edition
Label: Roadrunner Records
ASIN: B003UNNAZ6

Rating:


The Number 8 strike a chord? Yes…The same guy with the weird mask who can scream like hell. Corey Tayler, the lead singer of the well acclaimed Slipknot is back with a new album with his side project, Stone Sour. Named after a popular alcoholic drink, the band is no less addictive. With some well known masters like Jim Root and Roy Mayorga, the band has already won Grammy nominations for their previous effort Come What (ever) May. Audio Secrecy sees the band exploring new sounds with strains of me melodrama and rhythm intermingled with the typical metal sounds.

The album starts off with the title track ‘Audio Secrecy’ which is a lot of melancholic piano playing by Tayler; a sound unexplored by the band till date. The next song ‘Mission Statement’ however will take the fans to the throes of ecstasy with a full blast of distorted guitar and vocals accompanied by heavy drums. The album isn’t perhaps one of the best efforts of Tayler both lyrically and musically, however the some songs do feature some fantastic guitar works by Jim Root and Josh Rand. ‘Hesitate’, ‘Dying’, ‘Say You’ll Haunt Me’ and ‘Nylon 6/6’ are fantastic musically, however the lyrical quality is better left to the listener to judge.

All and all the album is enjoyable and should earn a rating of 3.5/5. For all the metal fans this is a must listen, and to all those fans of Corey who have been waiting to get a taste of how his mellow side looks like, this should be as good as it gets.

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I am a nobody. In the Matrix, I am a software engineer, struggling to survive in the race to nowhere. I lead a normal happily married life, full of the usual hope and apprehensions. I worry about small things, I crib about low wages, I hate the politicians and their policies and wish I had a better life. Outside the Matrix, however, it is a different story. I put on my earphones, cut myself away from the fake world and let my fingers take me to a world of dreams and fantasy. I do not complain here, in this world of words and puntuations. I find divinty with the Almighty when I write.I write about life, my experiences, my hopes, my wishes and some stuff not at all related to me. And music is the blue pill which takes me out of this everyday life. It is the Bodhi Tree under which I stand enlightened. So this then is my world. I can also be found at: http://vinayakgole.blogspot.com/

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