In a new Interview with BBC Radio 1‘s “Rock Show With Daniel P. Carter”, Corey Taylor discussed the new album “We Are Not Your Kind”.
He said:
“As a whole — and I can say this honestly — it is probably the furthest we’ve pushed the boundaries of creativity and experimentation, while also not losing our identity. There are bands out there who, they go for all of that experimentation and they forget who they are — they forget that there’s an audience that wants to hear a certain type… It doesn’t have to be the exact thing, but there has to be a certain emotion that they are looking for, that they wanna hear…
There has to be that touchstone. You can go as far out as you want, but you have to be able to pull them back to that feeling that made them fans in the first place. And I really think we did that with this album. We not only went places that we’ve hinted at, musically, over the years, but never really went full-bore, but we’re also doing heavier things than we’ve ever done.”
Taylor continued:
“We’re still a band that has always just written music for us. If we’re not impressed by it, we’re not putting cr*p out, you know? Even stuff in retrospect where we may take a listen to it later and go, ‘Ah, I don’t know if that was us.’ But at the time, we’re absolutely backing it, no matter what. So as long as we continue to write music for us first and the audience second, that’s how you keep that excitement.”
On the new stage, he said:
“It’s been really good. The set’s been pounding. The show looks amazing. We’re all playing really well. We’re getting bigger pops from things like [last year’s standalone single] ‘All Out Life’ than we do from stuff like ‘Duality’, which is nuts…
Honestly, it’s everything that we’ve wanted to do for years, and we just never had the budget and we had also had a lot of people around us telling us we couldn’t do it… We want people all over the world to see the same show. If there’s an A and B rig, they’re identical. We don’t wanna come in with some tired, half-a*sed bullsh*t. It’s not who we are, and we’ve had to contend with that almost our entire career.
He further added:
So not only is it interactive — there’s video, there’s fire — but the whole set looks like an industrial complex. This is our attempt to create some IRON MAIDEN stuff, which is something we’ve been trying to do for a while.”