Released Sept 7, 2010 on the album Audio Secrecy
Coming at you from Des Moines, Iowa is Stone Sour. The group is actually now in something of a reboot after originally coming together in 1992. The group broke apart for a bit (though never truly split) when two members, singer Corey Taylor and singer/guitarist Jim Root, joined Slipknot in 1997. Stone Sour reformed in 2002 and since then has produced four albums and acheived a couple of Grammy Award nominations in the area of Rock/Metal. This song comes from that most recent album, which is also the band's first studio album since original drummer Joel Ekman departed the group in 2006. I didn't see any specifics that indicated that Ekman's deprture caused any major problems for the band, but the fact that it took four years for the first studio effort to be produced after he left sure indicates that things weren't as smooth as they could have been! The other factor could also be the ongoing work that Root and Taylor have had with the nine-member group Slipknot during that time-frame. Slipknot itself- which also calls Des Moines its hometown - only recently has been inactive, and only because of a death in May 2010 of member and bassist Paul Gray that has left that group unsure of its future, though the rumor is that they are planning to begin a search for a new member and to have a new album out by 2012.
Of note is that the Audio Secrecy album is the first of Stone Sour's to not have a parental advisory label slapped on it. It's possible that the band is mellowing as its members get older - they fall in the 35-39 age group - or else they've just found other ways to get their song messages across! Stone Sour's sound is - predictably - often compared to that of Slipknot, though Stone Sour doesn't perform in the matching jumpsuits and individualized (and somewhat disturbing to some) masks that Slipknot has become known for. Another difference between the two is that Slipknot is usually much edgier than Stone Sour is in style. Think of Slipknot as comparable to early Metallica, with Stone Sour closer in their style to an early Def Leppard. Both are hard rock bands, but still so very different - which is somewhat amazing considering the two bands share a lead singer and a guitarist.
Say You'll Haunt Me is described by some as a "darkly sweet love song", and it has been called a song "about my wife and how I feel about my wife" by Taylor on the Noisecreep.com site. There were some posts that thought the song was meant as a tribute to the passing of Paul Gray, but the album and song were produced well in advance of that event.
And - after a one song fall off! - we are back to creative videos...the story it seems to tell doesn't seem to be a match (at least to me) with the song and the apparent meaning behind it, but it is interesting to watch! By the way, the car at the beginning of the video is a Hemi Cuda (short for the Plymouth Barracuda, more at Wikipedia here), one of the most sought after - and expensive - of the classic muscle cars.
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