Why Corey Taylor’s Debut Solo Album Is Called CMFT
As well as performing with several different bands across his career, Corey Taylor has also gone by many nicknames: from The Great Big Mouth, to #8 in Slipknot. But the frontman decided to choose one long-standing moniker in particular for the title of his upcoming debut solo album: CMFT. “It’s just been my nickname for God knows how long!” Corey tells Kerrang! as part of this week’s huge new digital cover story. “That started in high school – it was ‘CT’, and then it was, ‘C-mother-fucking-T’, and then it was just, ‘CMFT – whaddup!’” Initially incorporating the light-hearted name as part of his own merch and solo acoustic shows several years prior, Corey instinctively knew that he would go on to call an album the same thing one day – when he finally got round to getting th...
