Corey Taylor has opened up about how Metallica frontman James Hetfield helped him to really feel much less alone as he tried to get sober.
The Slipknot and Stone Bitter frontman has been sober since 2010, following years spent coping with alcohol and drug points.
“[I was] coping with my very own varied addictions and combating the despair that I needed to cope with for years — the trauma that type of got here from once I was rising up,” Taylor informed Consequence Of Sound in a brand new interview.
He went on so as to add that these traumas included being sexually abused and rising up with no father determine.
Taylor then pointed in the direction of Hetfield as one of many individuals who “helped me type of determine it out” when it got here to sobriety.
“When he first began his journey, getting sober and getting wholesome and whatnot, I checked out that, and I used to be, like, ‘Nicely, shit, if he’s robust sufficient to do it, possibly I can strive it’,” he mentioned. “[Sobriety] had a sufficiently big impact on me that, through the years, I’ve actually tried to keep it up. In figuring that out, I additionally realized that there have been so many individuals who have been taking place that path, as effectively. Jerry Cantrell had simply gotten sober round that point, and he was beginning to type of put his steps collectively.”
Taylor additionally acknowledged that it isn’t simple for addicts to surrender one thing that has been a powerful a part of their lives for an prolonged time period.
“It takes time; it takes effort, takes work,” he mentioned. “I actually have to provide [Hetfield] loads of credit score for the inspiration for that… It positively helped to know that I wasn’t alone in it. And it actually helped me clear my head and focus extra. And actually get right down to writing once more — actually, really writing.”
Taylor had beforehand mentioned on a podcast that the primary few years of sobriety are “bizarre” as a result of “you realise rapidly how a lot part of your persona booze has grow to be, and also you type of should kind out who you might be, what you’re snug with and largely simply the behavior of it.”
Taylor launched his second solo album, ‘CMF2’, at this time (September 15). In a three-star overview of the album, NME wrote: “There’s sufficient good things on right here to justify the album’s existence. And if nothing else, it’s a captivating perception into the dichotomy that drives one of many biggest bands of the twenty first century.”
