COREY TAYLOR Says 2012 'Has Been An Extremely Wonderful Year Of Accomplishment

On December 15, Simon Crampton of ThisIsNotAScene conducted an interview with Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor  at the Bournemouth, U.K. stop of Stone  Sour's European tour. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow bellow.

ThisIsNotAScene: Finish the sentence. 2012 has been ...

Corey Taylor: Busy. Beetwen getting the (new STONE SOUR) albums up and going. Basically, I oversaw everything: the artwork, the packaging, the story. I'm adapting the story itself into the comics trying to get those fucking going has been a crazy tedious process, but a really rewarding one. It's been a lot of work, it's had it's ups and downs. I lost my father-in-law about a mounth and a half ago, who succumbed to cancer, unfortunately, so that really kind of knocks the cherry of your happiness, but i know that hw would be very very proud of what's going on. He got to see me play before he went in the hospital, just a quick little acoustic gig, but he was so chuffed. It really, really made me fucking happy, he's the only dad i'v ever had. I only had him for about five years. but I'm glad I got to have him at least. So it's been an extremely wonderful year of accomplishment. Seeing everyone embrace. "House of Gold & Bones - Part 1". The way they have makes me very happy, but obviously, you can't have the good without the bad. It's been a hell of a year, let's put it that way.

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