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Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones Part 2

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Corey Taylor has seemingly quite easily strolled into that Rock’n’Roll Green Room of legends, where seemingly you gain the ability to do no wrong. Sitting alongside the likes of Lemmy, Ozzy and Dave Grohl; Corey can basically release a Country and Western record and get away with it at this point in his career. Obviously he hasn’t done that; he’s with his Stone Sour crew once again for the second part of the ‘House of Gold & Bones’ double album.

I think we’re all up to speed with what Stone Sour are about by now. Hard Rock packed with lots of melody and the odd stray into Metal territory. The best bit about Stone Sour is that Corey gets to show off his brilliant vocal talents more often than in Slipknot. This second part is a little heavier than part one however, with both ‘Red City’ and ‘Black John’ resurrecting Taylor’s bile-ridden bark with vengeance. All good for balance though, nobody wants twenty ballads do they?

Next up is ‘Sadist’, which is a slower number but still retains some hard riffing and angry parts and turns out to be one of the highlights. There are many highlights on here though, the heavier elements incorporated into the songs on Part 2 maybe just give it the edge on part 1, but it’s a close call. For every trademark Taylor vocal intro there’s a riff that will hit you like a sledge hammer. It’s mainstream Rock but it still has balls.

‘Do Me a Favour’ ensures the record rocks from start to finish and finally at the end of the whole collection you get the title track which is well worth the wait.

There’s always a danger with a double album that you end up thinking it would have been better trimmed down to a single release. Get rid of the filler and make an amazing album; I’m thinking GNR and SOAD could have done that? Well that’s not the case here. Part 1 and part 2 work together and apart brilliantly. Both great albums with no filler and probably Stone Sour’s finest work to date.

9/10

Rob W

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