STONE SOUR DEBUTS AT NUMBER 4

(VIDEO) The new album by Stone Sour has debuted on the Billboard 200 charts at Number 4

Stone Sour’s new effort Come What(ever) May has scanned over 80,000 copies in its first week of release, which is good enough for a Number 4 debut on the Billboard 200 album charts. Sales of Come What(ever) May are triple what their last album, the self-titled debut, did in its first week.

The band’s debut achieved gold status thanks to the breakthrough single “Bother.” Despite the last album’s success both singer Corey Taylor and Jim Root say that this album is much better than the first.

[Taylor] “I think it swallows it. It really does.” [Root] “I mean sonically, it’s just on a whole different level. The first album essentially was just us in a room with our amplifiers and it was very raw and it was very live. This album is a lot more polished. We spent a lot more time on it. This album, I think, content wise is much more mature than the first album as well.” [Taylor] “It definitely is. The first album we were surprised we were making an album. We were just excited about the fact that we were doing it, but this album we had that under our belt so it was like, ‘Let’s really get into it this time. Let’s go above and beyond everything we did on that first album.'”

Stone Sour is currently on Korn’s Family Values tour, and their first single, “Through Glass,” is currently Top Ten in the Modern Rock, Active Rock, and Mainstream Rock formats in the States.