Corey Taylor says making Slipknot’s ‘Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses’ “was just as big a risk as making” ‘Iowa’

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Corey Taylor has opened up about Slipknot‘s ‘Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses’ and revealed that making the LP “was just as big a risk as making” ‘Iowa‘.While appearing on Seton Hall’s Pirate Radio, 89.5 FM WSOU in support of his latest LP ‘CMF2‘, the Slipknot frontman reflected on the band’s 2004 album which will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year.‘Vol.

3: The Subliminal Verses’ was produced by Rick Rubin and featured tracks such as ‘Duality’, ‘Pulse Of The Maggots’ and ‘Vermilion’.

It also featured ‘Before I Forget’ which won the group a Grammy for Best Metal Act. It followed their second album, 2001’s ‘Iowa’.After being asked to name something the band did on that album that wouldn’t have been heard on any prior album of theirs, Taylor said: “Oh, man.

Well, I mean, obviously the acoustic stuff that we did with songs like ‘Circle’ [and] ‘Vermilion Pt. 2’. I mean, really diving… It was where we really started wearing our artistic side on our sleeve, because it was something that we knew that we could do and that we had done in the past, but we had never really been afforded the opportunity to do it.” (via Blabbermouth)He continued: “We also knew that if we stayed just trying to out-heavy ourselves, we were going to turn into somebody who didn’t sound honest, who didn’t sound legit.