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  • Slipknot’s Corey Taylor Talks Social Media Addiction In New Book

    Slipknot’s Corey Taylor Talks Social Media Addiction In New Book

    The singer reveals his battle with social media and addiction in his new book.

    Corey Taylor, the lead singer of Slipknot, has been very open with the public about his struggles with addiction, and in his next book, he’ll be confessing an addiction to social media.

    As Loudwire reports, Taylor will examine the link between addiction and social media in his new book, and it’s apparently something he understands firsthand.

    “There’s a flare in addiction right now and it’s one of the things I’m working on in my new book,” he explains. “There’s a correlation between that and social media – all of the shit that’s been triggered because of social media, the same kind of dopamine trigger. It’s compulsion, gratification, compulsion, gratification. It’s just a constant cycle.”

    Taylor admits he had become addicted to social media himself, adding he had “just gotten separated and I kind of went down a crazy wormhole and I was really depressed . . . I had just been through hell. Before, you’re a single guy, you go out, you play the scene, you do whatever. Now, you’ve got all this crazy shit at your fingertips. For an addict, it was fucking nuts.

    “Instagram, Twitter… it took me a while to get out of it,” Taylor continues. “For about three months solid, that’s all I did, ignoring my fucking duties and shit. The only time I would really fucking get away from it was when I was with my kids. Then the compulsion would come right back and I was like, ‘What is going in?’ It took me so long to settle that compulsion down … If I could get rid of it all, period, I would.”

    As far as Taylor’s belief that his addiction transferred to social media, there is certainly a lot of speculation these days about whether social media could be a true addiction that needs to be taken seriously. Many reports have found a link between social media and depression, and recently Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce made the analogy between social media addiction and the cigarette industry.

    “It’s addictive,” Benioff told CNBC. “It’s not good for you. There’s people trying to get you to use it that even you don’t understand what’s going on. The government needs to really regulate what’s happening.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Slipknot’s Corey Taylor On Addiction: I Wouldn’t Be Who I Am Now

    Slipknot’s Corey Taylor On Addiction: I Wouldn’t Be Who I Am Now

    Taylor reveals that it’s only been within the past year that he’s finally become a fan of who he is.

    Slipknot’s Corey Taylor says there’s a lot about his own recovery and his new attitude towards it on his band’s new album and their Halloween single, “All Out Life.”

    Taylor has spoken openly about his struggles with depression and having been the target of child abuse, and his coming to terms with the darkness he’s struggled with having changed his perspective not only on his life, but how he sees himself as well.

    “I’m looking to the world through clearer eyes,” Taylor said on Beats1. “I’m also just starting to make peace with the fact that there are dark pieces of my chapters that I’ve had to relinquish and let go of. I’ve said, ‘Look, if it wasn’t for all these dark things happening to me, I wouldn’t be the guy I am right now.’”

    He says he’s also realizing his priorities have changed.

    “This has made me deal with the fact that I am an addict. It’s made me deal with the fact that I’m in my 40s, I’ve got kids, and I need to take care of them. I’m dealing with all of these crazy things in my life that make me ‘me,’ and yet I should be embracing the fact that I’m alive,” he revealed. “I should be embracing the fact that I’m a father, I should be embracing the fact that I’m in two great bands.”

    Taylor has in the past stood up to take on the role of a sober role model.

    “It’s stronger to be that badass—to be the guy who sees it all, remembers it all, feels it all, and, at the end of the night, doesn’t need that quote-unquote party, you know. Because it’s hard in this industry; people are made to feel like they don’t belong, because they’re not a part of that. And it’s a shame,” he said in a past interview.

    He’s lost a friend to the industry before—fellow Slipknot bass player Paul Gray in 2010. Gray died of a drug overdose caused by morphine and fentanyl.

    It’s only recently that Taylor’s been able to forgive and learn to love himself.

    “I was never a huge Corey Taylor fan, until maybe the last year or so,” he admitted. “I was like, ‘What? There’s a lot about me that’s really, really cool. I’ve luckily had a lot of great people around me to encourage that and go, ‘We’ve been saying that for years.’”

    Slipknot’s newest album should be out next year, and the band is scheduled to headline Download Festival 2019. Their new single, “All Out Life,” debuted on Halloween.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Stone Sour Guitarist Josh Rand Returns To Band, Now Sober

    Stone Sour Guitarist Josh Rand Returns To Band, Now Sober

    “I just felt like every day was a burden. I was just like, ‘This is crazy. I know I don’t have to feel like this.’” 

    Stone Sour guitarist Josh Rand is back in the band after a brief hiatus during which he focused on getting sober. It was a much-needed break, he told Loudwire, that allowed him to regroup and see life from a new perspective.

    “In January, I just hit a wall with things, felt just terrible and decided that it was in my best interest and the band’s best interest to step aside and get stuff sorted,” he said.

    He was on his way to Canada with the band when he made the decision to hit the brakes. He decided at the last minute at the airport that he couldn’t go on any longer.

    “Everybody backed the decision… I had just spun into a funk, depression thing. I just wasn’t happy and so that’s why I made the decision. I just felt like every day was a burden. I was just like, ‘This is crazy. I know I don’t have to feel like this,’” said Rand.

    Up until that point, the guitarist described having trouble getting out of bed and missing studio sessions “because I was just that down.” This made working on the band’s 2017 album Hydrograd all the more difficult for Rand.

    But after three months of focusing on his recovery, Rand says he’s already reaping the rewards. “I have this new appreciation for everything,” he told Loudwire.

    Like his fellow bandmate Corey Taylor, who is also a vocalist for Slipknot, part of Rand’s recovery is living a healthy lifestyle, eating right and “spend[ing] hours” exercising.

    “The other thing I’m still working on… I was a person that would really never speak their mind and just bottle everything up,” he said. “That didn’t help me in many ways over the years, I’m sure. The band, we have a very open communication with the five of us and [are] truly a brotherhood.”

    Taylor himself, the vocalist of the Grammy-nominated band, has been sober since 2006, after fighting his own battles with substance abuse and suicidal ideation. Last year he was honored for his recovery advocacy at the Rock to Recovery benefit, for speaking up about his trauma and his recovery.

    “I knew that if I could open up and take away that stigma and show people that there’s absolutely fucking nothing wrong with sitting down with someone and talking about possible traumas that have happened in your life, or just talking about your problems, then you can help yourself a million times over, and you can help other people as well,” he told Rolling Stone.

    View the original article at thefix.com