Having never really found the little I've heard of Slipknot to be to my taste, I thought it might be worth checking out vocalist Corey Taylor's other band, Stone Sour, to see if I fared any better. And I did.I still wasn't overly impressed with Come What(ever) May, but there are a few gems on there. Through Glass, though I had heard it before, was by far my personal highlight, although the somewhat out of place, almost piano-ballad-like Zzyzx Rd showed that the band can still convey their emotion in an accessible manner, minus the security of their grungey riffs.
That might suggest that I wasn't impressed with the rest of the album, and to a certain degree that is the case. It's not so much that I disliked the post-grunge, alternative-metal sound, but I can't help thinking there are artists out there that do it better. For the most part, it felt like once I'd heard one song on the album, I'd heard them all.
The exceptions to that, as well as the two I mentioned above, are the highly listenable Made Of Scars, as well as Hell & Consequences and Your God, which bring some nice distorted guitar solos into the equation, something I'd have liked to have heard more of on the album.
2.5/5 - A slightly samey album, on which the few moments of diversity provide the only real stand-outs.
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