Corey Taylor has shared his love of Kaiser Chiefs, praising the Leeds band’s debut album ‘Employment’ in a new interview with NME.The Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman spoke to NME for the latest in the In Conversation video series and arrived at the interview after having conducted a radio interview with Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson.“I was really looking forward to it ‘cause I love his band,” Taylor said. “We had a lovely chat and he’s a rad dude.”The metal icon continued to discuss his love for Kaiser Chiefs, singling out ‘Employment’ as a highlight from their back catalogue. “Especially that first album, man,” he said. “It’s really, really good and super legit.”Speaking of the impact the record had on him, he said: “The more I got into that album, the more it inspired me to write.
I went on this whole slew of writing, man – just a ton of tunes. To this day, I listen to it and really get down with it. I’ve been threatening to do a cover of ‘Modern Way’ for a long time.“I’d do a really cool acoustic version of it, which would be really rad.
Not full-on metal. I wouldn’t brutalise it, I wouldn’t grindcore it or anything.”Elsewhere in the interview, Taylor teased the release of Slipknot’s “lost” album, ‘Look Outside Your Window’.
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