Stone Sour

Emerging from the same Midwest expanse as heavier sibling act Slipknot, American quintet Stone Sour carved out their own identity as a Grammy-nominated hard rock outfit with a string of Top Ten albums, including 2006's platinum hit Come What(ever) May and the two-part House of Gold & Bones. Although Slipknot made their mainstream debut in the late '90s, singer Corey Taylor and guitarist Jim Root got their start a few years prior in Stone Sour. Inspired by Metallica and Alice in Chains, the group spent several years playing the Iowa bar circuit before Taylor and Root joined Sl...