Corey Taylor at Download Festival 9/6/12

Corey Taylor is an amazingly versatile musician; famous for screaming in Slipknot, singing in Stone Sour, and more recently in the past year, playing intimate acoustic solo shows. Opening with ‘Bother’, originally a Stone Sour song, he amazed the crowd with his beautiful voice and guitar skills. He played an acoustic version of Slipknot’s ‘Spit It Out’, which actually sounded great, and instead of asking people to sit on the ground then jump up, as he does when he plays the song with Slipknot, he asked everyone to hop on one leg, causing great amusement to the crowd. He debuted a song from the new Stone Sour album, saying it was the first time it had been played live, which was called ‘Taciturn’ and proved Stone Sour are going to be back and better than ever. After playing songs by his two bands, he proceeded to play covers of his favourite songs, including a flawless version of Pink Floyd’s ‘Comfortably Numb’. Lzzy Hale of Halestorm joined Corey on stage for a mind-blowing performance of AC/DC’s ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’. Lzzy’s voice was raw and powerful, matching Corey’s perfectly. Ending with ‘Outsider’ by The Ramones, Corey Taylor proved in this amazing but short set what an incredible musician he is, and how we should definitely keep a look out for many more exciting things to come.