Listen Corey Taylor's Thundering New Solo Single, HWY 666

Ahead of the release of his upcoming debut solo album CMFT in October, Corey Taylor has shared another track from the record.

His latest effort goes by the name HWY 666 (following CMFT Must Be Stopped and Black Eyes Blue), and opens up the full-length as a whole. And, speaking to Kerrang! about it, Corey reveals parts of the single go back a long way…

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“Two of the verses for HWY 666 I wrote when I was in 10th grade,” he says. “I’d forgotten all about it until a few years ago – I found some notebooks at my grandma’s house that she had just held on to. I opened it up, flipped it open, and there was no title, but it was just the lyrics – the verses. And I just went, ‘Oh yeah! Fuck! I forgot all about this!’

“And it’s crazy, because that’s kind of how this [solo project] started, man. I had just recently moved a bunch of my stuff from my old Iowa house, because I was selling my house in Iowa. And I found all of these old notebooks, loaded with songs that I’d forgotten.”

CMFT is out on October 2 via Roadrunner Records – get your copy here.

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