Stone Sour and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor and legendary filmmaker Wes Craven are both eternally uncompromising.
From The Last House on the Left and A Nightmare on Elm Street to Scream and My Soul To Take,
Wes Craven has examined darkness at its rawest. He made the world
afraid to go to sleep because of Freddy Krueger. Then, he became
reflective on Scream, examining the genre itself and his own body
of work with sharp wit and wisdom that yielded not only one of the
greatest horror films ever, but one of the best movies of all time.
Then, there's Craven's latest flick, My Soul to Take. It's
another journey into madness and macabre centering around seven
Massachusetts teens all born the night a brutal local serial killer
died. The friends share the belief that the killer's soul may be inside
one of them, and as the body count rises, the audience is plunged closer
to evil than ever before. As a result, My Soul to Take is certainly one of the year's scariest films. The common thread is Wes has never been afraid to dance with devil…
Neither is Taylor. Fronting modern heavy metal's most important band,
Slipknot, Taylor unleashes demons with every chart-topping record and
sold out show. The Grammy winning, multi-platinum band has become a safe
haven for fans worldwide to scream along to, and they've made some of
the most intense, introspective and infectious metal ever committed to
tape. In Stone Sour, Taylor's reflection is similar to Craven's with the Scream franchise. On Stone Sour's latest offering, Audio Secrecy [Roadrunner Records], Taylor delves deep inside himself and creates
some of the most poignant, poetic and powerful music of his career. If
that's not enough, he's also got his first book, "Seven Deadly Sins,"
hitting shelves in March 2011.
In part two of ROGUE ON ROGUE, Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer and Michelle Rodriguez of Machete and Avatar discuss all things Rogue as moderated by ARTISTdirect.com editor, Rick Florino.
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Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer and Michelle Rodriguez of Machete and Avatar discuss Metallica, classical music and "Apocalypse" now for "Rogue on Rogue" as moderated by ARTISTdirect.com editor, Rick Florino. They tread the same ground creatively and share many similar influences, and it's all captured in this video below.
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In this exclusive "Rogue on Rogue" interview, Korn guitarist Munky and Machete star Michelle Rodriguez meet up to discuss music, what their art means, fans, James Cameron, David Lynch, Black Sabbath and life with artistDIRECT’s Editor-in-Chief Rick Florino…