Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has paid tribute to Black Sabbath ahead of the metal icons' final show in Birmingham tomorrow night. While Slipknot are one of the few giant metal bands to not be playing the stacked bill at Villa Park, he and his bandmates have been profoundly influenced by Sabbath all the same, as he explains to the BBC in an interview published earlier this week.
"Sabbath gave us the blueprint, Sabbath gave us the recipe," he explains. "They gave us the cookbook, man. The mystique was in the lyrics. It was in the sound. It was in the way that everything was just a little darker."
