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Stone Sour: Audio Secrecy

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Label: Roadrunner Records
Released: 2010.09.07
Time:
 54:23
Category: Alternative Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Producer(s): Nick Raskulinecz
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.stonesour.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Audio Secrecy (Stone Sour) - 1:44
[2] Mission Statement (Stone Sour) - 3:51
[3] Digital [Did You Tell] (Stone Sour) - 4:01
[4] Say You'll Haunt Me (Stone Sour) - 4:25
[5] Dying (Stone Sour) - 3:02
[6] Let's Be Honest (Stone Sour) - 3:45
[7] Unfinished (Stone Sour) - 3:11
[8] Hesitate (Stone Sour) - 4:17
[9] Nylon 6/6 (Stone Sour) - 3:39
[10] Miracles (Stone Sour) - 4:08
[11] Pieces (Stone Sour) - 4:31
[12] The Bitter End (Stone Sour) - 3:34
[13] Imperfect (Stone Sour) - 4:23
[14] Threadbare (Stone Sour) - 5:47

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Corey Taylor - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Piano, Guitar Solo on [11]
James Root - Lead/Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards
Josh Rand - Lead/Rhythm Guitar
Shawn Economaki - Bass
Roy Mayorga - Drums, Percussion, Piano on [4,9]

Nick Raskulinecz - Producer, Engineer
Ted Jensen - Mastering
Chris Lord-Alge - Mixing
Randy Staub - Mixing
Zach Blackstone - Assistant Mixing
Paul Fig - Engineer
Nathan Yarborough - Assistant Engineer
Steve Blacke - Strings Arrangement, Strings on [8]
John Nicholson - Drum Technician
P.R. Brown - Art Direction, Design, Photography

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Recorded in 2010 at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.



Stone Sour has always been an odd sort of experiment. Normally you’d expect the band of straight-ahead rockers to don wild costumes and thrash out behind a shroud of anonymity. Instead we find members of shock rock outfit Slipknot stripping away the makeup and bombast of their day job for something that seems subdued in comparison, creating a driving sound that manages to be more mature while avoiding the shambolic pitfalls of Kiss’ “unmasked” period. For their third album, Audio Secrecy, maturity feels like the name of the game. There’s still a fair amount of Stone Sour’s hard rock heaviness, but rather than delivering another collection of chugging riffs, the band has made an effort to add some depth to their sound. Tracks like “Threadbare” and “Say You’ll Haunt Me” are busier and more atmospheric than anything on the band's previous outings, demonstrating a more melodic and layered approach to songwriting. It’s as if the band is tossing aside the last vestiges of post-grunge angst to create an album that’s meant to do more than just get people worked up without sacrificing any quality in the songwriting department. Standing out on Audio Secrecy is “Nylon 6/6,” which brings together everything the band is trying to do in one place with vocalist Corey Taylor really getting to use his full vocal range as his singing shifts from guttural to soaring to stay in line with guitar work that feels reminiscent of the Deftones’ juxtaposition of heavier riffs with lighter vocals and vice versa. It’s always great to see a band that’s able to tweak its sound without watering it down, and that’s exactly what Stone Sour have accomplished here, showing that it’s possible for hard rock bands to make their sound bigger without necessarily making it blunter.

Gregory Heaney - All Music Guide



Audio Secrecy is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Stone Sour. It was recorded and produced by the band and Nick Raskulinecz at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. On June 10, the band released a free download of "Mission Statement", which was later released as a single on iTunes. The first official single, "Say You'll Haunt Me", however, was released on July 6, 2010. Audio Secrecy is also the first album by the band to not feature a 'Parental Advisory' sticker and is dedicated to Slipknot bassist Paul Gray, who had died earlier in 2010. It is also the band's last album to feature bassist Shawn Economaki.

Audio Secrecy received generally positive reviews from music critics. Tim Grierson of About.com compared the band to Slipknot stating that Stone Sour delivers loud and powerful love songs and that the album in whole displayed Corey Taylor's flexibility in music. Gregory Heaney of Allmusic praised Taylor's voice stating that he has made full use of his voice "from guttural to soaring". He also related the "chugging guitar" work of the album to that of Deftones.

Lenny Vowels, a senior critic of 411mania.com awarded the album seven out of ten stars summarizing his review by stating "Stone Sour's newest record does seem to yearn for new heights, but for some reason can't quite reach them. The mood is definitely darker than their previous two albums, though that doesn't mean it's better. Basically, what's good on the album is great, and while nothing's bad, the rest doesn't come off as anything special either. In the band's personal history, I'd rank it above Come What(ever) May overall, but their self-titled album still leads the pack. Either way, this record is worth having if you're a fan of the band, but don't expect much in the way of new."

Audio Secrecy debuted in the top 10 in various countries. In the US it sold 46,000 copies in its first week and debuted at No.6 on the Billboard 200.

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