Track Listing

1. Get Inside
2. Orchids - Stone Sour & DJ Sid Wilson
3. Cold Reader
4. Blotter
5. Choose
6. Monolith - Stone Sour & DJ Sid Wilson
7. Inhale
8. Bother
9. Blue Study
10. Take A Number
11. Idle Hands
12. Tumult
13. Omega

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9646 in Music
• Released on: 2003-02-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
The first thing that you should know is that Stonesour is not a Slipknot side-project. Sure, Corey Taylor and James Root are, respectively, the dreadlocked vocalist and the jester-masked guitarist of the Iowa-born metal marauders. But the pair’s involvement in Stonesour predates their time in Slipknot, even though this eponymous record is the band’s debut.

Immediately, it’s clear that this is a radically different beast to Slipknot: boasting a grungy, punk-metal edge that points towards a love for Alice In Chains and Metallica, Stonesour turns down the militaristic assault in favour of an intimate, earnest and comparatively conventional heavy rock collection. The beefy opener, "Get Inside" is a meaty rock-out for the dedicated ‘Knothead. But further in, there’s some real surprises: "Cold Reader" and "Monolith" match their intense riffs with a bare lyrical edge far more revealing that any Slipknot song. All the same, neither can prepare you for "Bother"--a confessional, acoustic song that faintly calls to late-period Metallica, Corey singing "Wish I was too dead to care / If indeed I care at all" over keening violins and a mellow guitar line that, impossibly, recalls Eric Clapton. Easy listening? Yeah, but all but the most narrow-minded Slipknot fans should lap it up. And for fans of Corey, well, this might just be the album they’ve been waiting for. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
Self-titled debut album from Stone Sour who feature Corey Taylor and Jim Root from Slipknot. More introspective, fusingraw emotive rock with metal. Embraces the agressiveness of Slipknot with the melodiousness of Alice In Chains and Metallica. Includes the first single from the album 'Get Inside' and 'Bother' which was featured on the Spider-Man soundtrack.

Customer Reviews

rock... with meaning
This album is really superb. Showing the natural talent and versatility of Corey Taylor's voice, as well as genius songwriting and heartfelt lyrics. This will be a real winner with a lot of Slipknot fans, (the ones who are accepting to Taylor developing a more mellow style with this band), but also with a lot of Slipknot critics. Taylor can no longer be accused of having little talent, demonstrating a seemingly unnecessarily overload of growling, or writing lyrics which are 98% offensive. No, this stuff is quite different.

The obvious standout track is 'Bother' - so totally different to any of Slipknot's music that it's hard to believe it's the same guy singing. A really beautiful, melodic rock ballad with orchestration and gentle harmonies that almost make you want to cry.
Other good tracks are Monolith (personal favourite), Take A Number and Blue Study. The songs vary from downbeat and melancholy, to brutal and angry. Get Inside is a great opener for it's sheer energy, and tracks such as Inhale (possibly next single) show a more emotional and personal side to Taylor's songwriting, although not in the same vein as his Slipknot lyrics of negative childhood experiences which, understandably, can be a bit depressing at times.
This album takes a couple listens to get into but it really is sooo f**king good and definitely worth buying, also a band worth seeing live as they are incredible and have a wonderful clientele of fans. So yeah...god...BUY THIS ALBUM! It doesn't matter if you love or hate Slipknot, this is universally appealling and a real gem....

A New Corey Taylor Era
As a Slipknot fan, I expected to find Stone Sour as a simular style of music but I was completely wrong. Stone Sour expresses a different unheard Corey Taylor which is alot better to listen to. An example of this is 'Bother' (track 8) and it highlights singing and intelligent lyrics. As expected, adrenaline songs as with Slipknot are there like 'Get Inside' (track 1) and 'Tumult' (track 12) are on the cd and have a bit of a different sound to them as songs like 'Wait And Bleed' and 'Spit It Out' by Slipknot. This is because the words are easier understood and the chorus stands out more because it is shouted compared to the rest of the song which is more sung. A couple of songs that caught me by supprise were 'Monolith' (track 6) and 'Inhale' (track 7) because it is a mixture of great tune, excellent singing and fantastic lyrics. In my opinion, these two songs stand out above the rest and are easily the best two ever created so far by Stone Sour

isn't this a bit old fashioned
Corey Taylor and James Root of Slipknot infamy formed this band long before they donned masks and orange boiler suits and terrorised worried parents of pre-pubescent's.

Those expecting a similar relentless attack on the senses will be disappointed, this is a pretty (in comparison) paired down affair echoing the likes of Alice in Chains and Metallica on a fairly conventional rock album. Most of you will already be familiar with the guttural opener "Get Inside" and the typically bare-chested aggression but delve a little further and there are a few surprises "Cold Reader" and "Monolith" are prime examples with giant riffs and emotional lyrical content.

Which is all the more surprising when "Bother", an acoustic song first heard on the Spiderman OST, breaks the noise. Corey has a great voice when he's not stripping paint with his throat and this tune more than demonstrates his range ahead of the subtler breaks on the Knots own 'Wait and Bleed' and 'My Plague'.

So, a guaranteed fan base already present and a sound suited to a wider general appeal Slipknot mach 2 this ain't. Its a lot less glam than Joey Jordison's 'Murderdolls' and sounds like it should have been released about 6 years ago but as a competent foray into grunge metal it works.

Kind of.