Slipknot leader Corey Taylor is forced to cancel several concerts just a few days before his arrival at the Galician Resurrection Fest.
The well-known vocalist Corey Taylorgang leader Slipknot and Stone Sour, has recently canceled two concerts planned at European festivals due to health problems. However, his long-awaited concert at the Resurrection Festwhich takes place from June 26 to 29, 2024, is not in danger at the moment.
Corey Taylor’s health
On June 13, 2024, Corey Taylor announced the cancellation of his participation in the Nova Rock festival, held on the fields of Pannonia in Burgenland, Austria. This announcement came just hours after canceling their performance at the Rock For People festival in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. On her social media, Taylor explained that his health and that of his team is the main priority and that he hopes to return to these stages when he can offer the show that his fans deserve.
Taylor, who has been touring Europe with his solo band, expressed his regret at not being able to perform at these events. “To my friends in Austria, due to an illness I am suffering from, I will cancel my performance at the Nova Rock festival. I am deeply saddened to have to cancel another show, but my priority is to keep our band and crew healthy while doing everything I can to rest and heal. I hope to see my Austrian friends again very soon, when I can give them the performance they deserve,” Corey wrote in his statement.
Taylor’s struggle with mental health
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has spoken openly in recent months about his struggle with manic depression, saying that people have a hard time understanding the “numb” feeling that comes with it.
In a recently published interview with The Void With Christina, the vocalist has shared more information about what it’s like to live with manic depression and the stigma surrounding talking about it.
“It’s interesting. “I’ve always been very outspoken about everything so I never realized it was a stigma, to be honest,” she said. “It was a line you didn’t really cross or admit, especially someone in my profession or whatever… people used it as a buzzword. They never talked about it eloquently or very openly.
“So when I started opening up about it, the response was pretty extraordinary: People were saying, ‘You gave me the courage to open up about it on my own and really talk to the people I care about about what was affecting me,’” he added.
“That, in a strange way, helped me with communication with my loved ones, because I felt like I was being very open about it in the press, but then I couldn’t expand on it to the people it was really affecting.”
She continued by recalling the hardest part of dealing with mental health issues: “I think the biggest thing that people don’t understand is the numbness that comes with it, especially when the physical side of it hits you and it becomes that struggle, that almost impossible struggle to deal with. simply being alive or human. It’s something you just can’t describe to people unless they’ve been there.
“It’s really hard to try to get them to see why it’s so hard to be alive. It’s almost like replacing your body with the body of a mannequin. I call it trying to run underwater. So I think that’s the biggest thing that’s really the hardest thing, is getting people to understand and empathize.”
The interview was recorded in December but was posted online yesterday (March 6). Just weeks after it took place, Taylor canceled her previously scheduled solo tour in North America, citing mental health issues.
“Over the past few months, my mental and physical health has been deteriorating, and I reached a point that was unhealthy for my family and me,” she wrote in a statement.
A year full of activity despite everything
Corey Taylor has been busy promoting his second solo album, “CMF2”, released in September 2023. This work, produced by Jay Ruston, has received an excellent reception and has taken Taylor to tour much of Europe. “CMF2” is Taylor’s first album with BMG and also his first under his own label, Decibel Cooper Recordings.
The album includes standout songs like “Black Eyes Blue,” which peaked at No. 1 on Billboard’s mainstream rock chart, and “CMFT Must Be Stopped,” a collaboration with Tech N9ne and Kid Bookie that has become a phenomenon. streaming. Recently, Taylor digitally released “CMF2B…Or Not 2B,” an album of covers and B-sides from the “CMF2” recording sessions.
