Corey Taylor reveals HoGaB meaning-- finally!

After teasing his twitter followers for months with a #HoGaB hashtag at the end of every tweet, Corey Taylor finally revealed what it is! This morning he released the following in a series of tweets:

I promised today you'd get the explanation to HoGaB. Well, today that's exactly what you get. Got a lot of info coming- please retweet.

The new Stone Sour album is a 2-part double concept album called House of Gold and Bones (HoGaB), parts 1 and 2. Part 1 will drop in Oct '12

Part 2 will drop next year. 24 songs, 12 on each disc. Each disc will include one half of the story- for lyrics, you'll have to our site.

Once I lock in the company who will help me put it together, there will be a comic book as well. Song titles include 'Absolute Zero', 'RU486', 'A Rumor of Skin' and 'Taciturn'. Very excited for everyone to hear it! Stay tuned!! #HoGaBoctober12

Pretty exciting stuff. Of course I happen to be a fan of concept albums in general, with two of my all time favorites being Queensryche's Operation:Mindcrime and Sixx:AM's The Heroin Diaries.

What would also be cool is a tour to support the album where it's performed live in its entirety like Queensryche did with Operation:Mindcrime but I guess we have to stay tuned to see how this all plays out.


If you're more of a Slipknot fan than Stone Sour fan, there's some good news for you as well. This weekend, they announced via their label, Roadrunner Records, that a best-of collection entitled "Antennas to Hell" will be released on July 24, 2012.

From the Roadrunner website:

Slipknot is like no other band the rock scene has ever encountered and to celebrate two decades of game-changing existence, the band will release Antennas to Hell, a "best of" collection documenting its inimitable career, on July 24. The album is scheduled to be released via Roadrunner Records while the band is spending its summer as the main attraction of the 2012 edition of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, as well as curating and headlining the inaugural year of their very own festival, Knotfest.

The time is right for a "best of" collection from the band, as it captures the first chapter of Slipknot—a chapter where they’ve gone from unknown to the one of the biggest rock bands in the world, all on their own terms.

Antennas to Hell Track Listing:
1. (sic)
2. Eyeless
3. Wait and Bleed
4. Spit It Out
5. Surfacing
6. People = Shit
7. Disasterpiece
8. Left Behind
9. My Plague (New Abuse Mix)
10. The Heretic Anthem (live)
11. Purity (live)
12. Pulse of the Maggots
13. Duality
14. Before I Forget
15. Vermilion
16. Sulfur
17. Psychosocial
18. Dead Memories
19. Snuff

Bonus CD: (sic)nesses: Live At The Download Festival, 2009
1. (sic)
2. Eyeless
3. Wait and Bleed
4. Get This
5. Before I Forget
6. Sulfur
7. The Blister Exists
8. Dead Memories
9. Left Behind
10. Disasterpiece
11. Vermilion
12. Everything Ends
13. Psychosocial
14. Duality
15. People = Shit
16. Surfacing
17. Spit It Out