THE L.I.F.E. PROJECT

WHEN YOU’VE SPENT most of your life on the road, sitting around at home for long periods of time is definitely not an appealing proposition. Josh Rand has been a member of Stone Sour since the band first formed in 1992, but in 2019 he suddenly found himself facing a lengthy period of inactivity when bandmate Corey Taylor returned from touring with Slipknot to announce his plans to make a solo record (last year’s CMFT), effectively putting Stone Sour on hold.

“What you have to. “It’s all I know. So with Corey doing a solo record in the time when we’d normally do a Stone Sour record, in between Slipknot tours, it could’ve been five or six years before we did anything again. That got me thinking. I’d always written a ton of music that didn’t make it into Stone Sour, for one reason or another, so this was obviously the golden opportunity to do it. It felt like a chance to seize the day, and that’s turned into The L.I.F.E. Project.”