Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones - Part 1
Updated: Oct 27
The album "House of Gold & Bones - Part 1" was released in the UK on October 22, 2012, followed by the US release on October 23. Do not get confused: this is not another series on a streaming service, but the first of two concept albums by "Stone Sour", released in 2012 and 2013.
After the band's third album "Audio Secrecy", Corey Taylor decided he wanted to do something special, he wanted to create a double album, it is not known where the burst of creativity and the number of songs came from, but the members created a pair of albums here for the glory of the work.
The first chapter is gloomy and dramatic: a dark story of a man confronting an inner crisis, drawing us into the depths of his soul until we find ourselves crying out for help. Corey described a person at a crossroads, trying to discover who he is and what he wants to do with the rest of his life. The second part followed in April 2013, about six months later.
We got a taste with the release of the first and combined single (a huge idea to put these two songs together), "Gone Sovereign" and "Absolute Zero" are both a purposeful display of what's going on on the album. The first speaks of the condition of the hero who is at a difficult stage in his life, a kind of shell of himself when all his heroes have disappeared. Now they are so full of hatred that they have nothing left but "absolute zero."
Musically, this is "Stone Sour" on a stimulant cocktail that sends the band to astonishing heights. Guitarist Josh Rand described the project as an intensification of the band’s riffs, lyrics and grooves, combining familiar strengths with darker and heavier material.
And on Corey what shall we say..., he is exciting, sweeping, beating, insane, and mesmerizing as usual. A huge talent of vocalist who knows how to process the music and release it in a phenomenal way. This is one of his most significant, mature, and sophisticated albums vocally in our humble opinion. Songs like "A Rumor of Skin", "RU486", "Last of the Real" and "Taciturn" bring it out in a wonderful way !!
The song "The Travelers, Pt. 1" is a moving point in the first half of the record: whatever stage of life you are at, you can find your own place in it. Its continuation, "The Travelers, Pt. 2", returns near the end and sends you soaring like Jack Black hearing rock and roll!
Both parts were recorded at Sound Farm Studios near Des Moines with producer David Bottrill. The project also expanded into a four-issue Dark Horse comic series written by Corey from the story behind the albums.
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