Stone Sour

In 2000, Josh Rand contacted Corey Taylor after Taylor had returned from touring in Japan with his other band Slipknot about material he had been working on.^[1] Speaking about the experience, Taylor said, “we just started writing stuff and it started to happen”.^[2] The duo wrote 14 songs and began working in a studio on some demos.^[2] Taylor added that it got to a point where he said to Rand, “I think we’re going to have to put a real band together, because this is just too serious!”^[2] After further enlisting the help of Joel Ekman and previous Stone Sour members Shawn Economaki and Jim Root, the band began working on the album at Catamount Studios in Cedar Falls, Iowa.^[3] Before the release of the album, the band went through several different names, most notably Superego,^[3] before later announcing that they would use their original name Stone Sour.

In 2003, Stone Sour’s first single from the album, “Get Inside”, was nominated for the Best Metal performance at the 45th Grammy Awards.^[22] On March 20, 2003, Stone Sour was certified Gold in the United States.^[23] The following year, the album’s third single, “Inhale”, was also nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards.^[24]