Corey Taylor insists media should give more respect to Metal

Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist, Corey Taylor, has insisted that the media should give more respect to Metal.

In a recent interview with Guardian music critic Alexis Petridis, the talented singer asserted that everything surrounding the metal genre in media is totally pathetic.

“There is that stigma around metal – that’s its dumb, Neanderthal – which is such bull****. Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans. If you listen to some of the music, it’s very intricate, layered. You have to be at least sort of savvy to get into it”, Taylor explained.

In addition, the front-man of Slipknot and Stone Sour went on stress that metal is the only genre that is evolving.

“There’s this need to raise the bar. I don’t see that in any other genre. Black Sabbath begat Metallica begat Marilyn Manson begat us Slipknot. The Rock’n’roll Hall of Fame is a joke – the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal. I wouldn’t say that we give a s*** about acceptance. I just want respect for the bands who laid the way”, Taylor concluded.

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