Stone Sour’s Corey Taylor Loves Stephen King Horror Novels

Stone Sour and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor knows a thing or two about writing. After all, he recently penned an autobiography, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good, that landed on the New York Times bestseller list.

Taylor recently chatted with Artist Direct about his favorite reads, and he said Stephen King’s The Stand is at the top of the list. C’mon, are you surprised?

“I’d have to say the unabridged version of The Stand with the extra 150,000 words,” he said when asked to rattle off his No. 1 pick. “I pretty much read that once a year, and I have since I was … 20-years-old. It's one of my all-time favorite books, and it’s such an adventure that it’s almost like reading the script to a fantastic movie that you know will never get made. The Stand is definitely a favorite. How stoked do you think I was when Slipknot got mentioned in Stephen King’s Cell?”

Taylor’s other favorites include Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Legs McNeil’s Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, the latter which he says is a must-read “if you’re into music history and you want to know where real punk music came from.”

In more Taylor news, he’s currently working on a new album with Stone Sour that’s expected to arrive in 2012.

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Korn Frontman Loves Nine Inch Nails, Joy Division

Korn singer Jonathan Davis was recently asked to name some of his favorite things by Spin magazine. It turns out his #1 song of all time is “Love will Tear Us Apart,” by Joy Division.

“It’s so beautiful and so [expletive] sad at the same time,” he said. “As a kid it struck me how many different emotions a single song could evoke, and it changed my view of music forever.”

Davis also named his favorite album: Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral, which he called “an absolute masterpiece.”

The Korn frontman went on to discuss his favorite movie (Dune, “I’m a big David Lynch fan”), favorite food (Japanese) and favorite celebrity (Back to the Future star Crispin Glover). “Is he a celebrity? He’s an awesome actor,” Davis said.

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Ozzy Still Loves Vinyl

Record Store Day Ambassador Ozzy Osbourne has been talking about his love for the old vinyl format for records. He told USA Today that he thinks vinyl sounds better: “If you don’t listen to vinyl for a while and you hear it again, it sounds much better.”

He’s also pleased to see vinyl making something of a comeback. “It’s exciting that young bands are making records on vinyl. The big corporations make everything so miniaturized. And when you buy the iPod or the iPad or the i-whatever, six months later it’s obsolete and you have to buy a new gadget.”

Osbourne’s contribution to Record Store Day on April 16 will be a vinyl single of “Flying High Again” and vinyl albums Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman.

Osbourne also laments the day of record shop in-store appearances: “The only chance I get to see my fans at close proximity is at meet-and-greets backstage at my gigs. I used to do in-stores and sign albums and have a chat with them.”

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