Stone Sour and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is working on a book about the Seven Deadly Sins, according to an interview with music blog Attention Deficit Delirium. Taylor explained, "I just finished writing it, and it's being edited right now. We're hoping to get it out by the spring of next year. It's about the Seven Deadly Sins and my take on them and how I don't think they're sins at all. They're human characteristics. They're just human flaws and things that we all experience, yet because we all deal with them we're all doomed? Screw you."
Taylor added, "To me, it's just part of being human, and it's me making the case for that and saying that you can go through all of these things and at the end of the day you can still be a good person. I'm telling stories from my past and balancing humor with serious, dark stuff. I'm really excited about it."
Taylor also said he is "proud" that he wrote the book himself, without a ghostwriter, adding, "If it sucks you know who to blame." The book will be published by Da Capo Press.
The singer is currently on the road with Stone Sour as part of the Uproar Festival tour, with the band's new Audio Secrecy album set to arrive on September 7th.
A new Slipknot concert DVD titled (sic)nesses will surface a few weeks later, on September 28th.
System Of A Down singer Serj Tankian will release his second solo album, Imperfect Harmonies, on September 21st, but still has nothing to report on the System front since the band went on hiatus four years ago: "Shavo (Odadjian, bassist) got married like two months ago, we were all at his wedding, and you know, we all talk, we're friends, nothing's changed, and we get offers to play shows, tours, whatever, and we discuss them once in a while. We have not made any decisions as of yet as to what we're gonna do. But when we do, it'll be quite obvious."
Meanwhile Odadjian himself said in a new interview with Hustler magazine that System went on an "indefinite break" to save the band from splitting up permanently.
Odadjian explained, "We won a Grammy and we had two number one records. We were making a lot of loot (money). Then some people within the group of four brothers started seeing things differently . . . and their actions made the reactions of others pretty unbrotherly-like."
The bass player added, "All of a sudden band members are having problems financially. . . . (and) fighting about, 'I want my style of music to be this and that.' I love them. They're my brothers, but I couldn't see my brothers digging into each other's pockets and killing each other's artistic creativity."
Odadjian said that the band members vowed to come back "when we again have the hunger and the fire in our eyes that we did when we started System Of A Down."