STONE SOUR / SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor is featured in a new interview with Mike Ragogna at The Huffington Post. An excerpt is available below.

Q: You're on tour with Stone Sour promoting Audio Secrecy, but what's the future for a solo release and other stuff?

Taylor: "You know what? It's really all about Stone Sour right now. People ask me when I'm going to put out a solo album, and I just don't have the time. Honestly, a solo album is something that I can wait for, you know? That's something that I don't have to do now. My philosophy has always been to strike while the iron is hot, and right now, Stone Sour is really hot. We've got a great new album, and fans all over the world are really starting to embrace it. It just makes more sense to me to put the work in with Stone Sour than to worry about a solo album or anything like that; it's something that I've got my whole life to do. You never know what's going to happen, and to me, it just makes the most sense to go with your gut, and go with what you feel is the biggest. So, right now, everything is going great, and I've put everything on hold to work on this right now."

Q: What advice do you have for kids coming into music right now?

Taylor: "Just get all the practice you can in, and I don't mean in the basement or the garage or whatever. I mean go out and play live. Go out and cut your teeth and learn your craft. Don't be afraid to write music that may not seem like it could be popular. You've got to write songs to know what you want to do, and I think too many people paint themselves into a corner musically because they think that's the only thing they can do. To me, it makes more sense to write different songs, and to play different kinds of music, and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know?

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction. For me, that's one of the things that I look forward to the most--getting in front of an audience, stirring them up into a frenzy, and then just kicking a lot of ass with them. So, if you're going to get into music, learn your craft and don't half ass anything but go for it. Do everything you can at eleven, and don't be embarrassed to do anything. If you're going to succeed you've got to have the will to do it, and that's just the way it is."

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Fueled by hit single 'Say You’ll Haunt Me', the new Stone Sour album, Audio Secrecy (Roadrunner Records), entered Billboard's Top 200 at #6, making it the second consecutive top ten debut for the 3-time Grammy nominated quintet.

The band also claimed the top spot on the iTunes Rock Album Chart, shooting straight to #1 with a special edition of the record, which included three bonus tracks. Internationally, the album garnered the highest debuts of the band’s career including top 5 charts in Germany, Japan and Austria, as well as top 10 in the UK and Australia.