Corey Taylor’s New Book Due For Release Next Summer


Slipknot, by Melina D Photography

Slipknot, by Melina D Photography

As previously reported last spring, Slipknot/Stone Sour forntman Corey Taylor will release his next book titled America 51 from De Capo Press, next summer.

The official title of the book will be America 51: A Probe Into The Realities That Are Hiding Inside The Greatest Country In The World, and release on July 11, 2017. Taylor had said previously the book deals with “just how batshit crazy my country is righDt now, in good ways and in bad ways,”.

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The official book description from the publisher follows:

“The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins ‘America 51’ with a reflection on what his itinerant youth and frequent worldwide travels with his multiplatinum bands Slipknot and Stone Sour have taught him about what it means to be an American in an increasingly unstable world. He examines the way America sees itself, specifically with regard to the propaganda surrounding America’s origins (like a heavy-metal Howard Zinn), while also celebrating the quirks and behavior that make a true-blue American.

“Balancing humor, outrage, and disbelief, Taylor examines the rotting core of America, evaluating everything from politics and race relations to family and ‘man buns.’ By continuing the wave of moral outrage begun in ‘You’re Making Me Hate You’, Taylor skewers contemporary America in his own signature style.”

Taylor’s three previous books are You’re Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look At The Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left, in July 2015, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Heaven, was published in the summer of 2013 and landed at No. 23 on the New York Times “Hardcover Non-Fiction” best sellers list and 2011’s Seven Deadly Sins: Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good, which landed at No. 26 on the New York Times “Hardcover Non-Fiction” best sellers list.