Corey Taylor says Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ is “one of the best hard-punk-fusion-pop albums of all time”

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Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has hailed the impact of Nirvana‘s ‘Nevermind’, calling it “one of the best hard-punk-fusion-pop albums of all time”.The rocker was speaking ahead of the landmark LP’s 30th anniversary tomorrow (September 24).“I had heard some dubbed copies of some of the Sub Pop 7-inches that they had released, so I was aware of Nirvana before they set off their nuclear bomb,” he told Consequence Of Sound. “[‘Nevermind’] wasn’t as sludgy as [debut album] ‘Bleach’ was, but the songs were so refined at that point.

And the production — Butch [Vig] did an incredible job on that album. It changed the way people thought about songwriting.He continued: “The first time I got [the album], I must have worn it out for six months.