FACECAGE released their long awaited third
album, ' FACECAGE III ' this week via Corey Taylor's new midwest
independent label GREAT BIG MOUTH RECORDS.
Taylor,
with FACECAGE manager and longtime friend, Denny Harvey, laid the groundwork for the label after Taylor shopped the album to
various industry insiders this spring. Harvey contends, "In the
end, I think this is the best way to connect with our core
audience and let the band keep solid control over their
vision."
Recorded in Taylor''s hometown of Des Moines,
Iowa, though-out the Fall and Winter of 2005, '' FACECAGE III ''
marks the evolution of the band and the growth of their dynamics
and songwriting.
When asked about the final results,
Taylor commented: "I think it's the perfect result of a
tremendous band's evolution from being in the basement with dreams
to expanding, learning and honing their craft as an organic
musical entity. In layman's terms, they kick ass like never before
on this album."
Taylor adds, "There are so many great
moments on this album that it's hard to pick out a single track.
''Weakness Inside You'' has that epic feeling from top to bottom,
''Drill Bits'' makes you want to drive your car into a fxxking
wall, and let's not even DISCUSS what
''Nothing But Contempt'' makes me want to do!"
In
an unusual arrangement for the music industry, Corey and
FACECAGE are partnering in an independent, grass roots label with
a focus on Midwestern music and artist development.
When asked why he and the band decided to
release the album via GREAT BIG MOUTH, and base the label in the
Midwest, Taylor replies: "Because it's FROM the Midwest. It was
born here, it grew here, it has thrived here, the fans have
carried it here and it has spread from here. Nobody in the so
called 'industry' had the fxxkin' balls to do it, so it's going to
take someone with Midwestern balls to release
it."
Taylor added, "If I've learned anything, it's that
the industry has to be led by the fxxking hand to what kind of
music people want. And, that's what we're trying
to do."
Harvey outlines the business model as: "Grass
roots yet high tech. We are going to combine the D.I.Y ethics of
the older independent labels with the new technology available to
us today. Eventually, we hope to make a big enough dent to secure
major distribution. Until then, we will focus on internet sales
and independent promotion."
The album is available for
sale online at
www.facecage.net
Harvey continues,"You
are talking to the guys that flyered telephone poles at 3am for
Slipknot and hung bedsheets from highway overpasses to promote
Stone Sour, all while people told us we were crazy. Corey now has
a Grammy to show for it. We didn't invent D.I.Y. but we sure
did master it. In the end, I really do believe we will have
the last laugh."
Summing up The sentiment, Taylor
offers a blunt description of where the band is headed in the
coming year, "Anywhere they want. Not anywhere they NEED, any
fucking where they want. The sky's the limit, the time is now and
god help anyone who gets in their fxxking way."
Taylor adds, "July 15th - write it down. The day the
Midwest took
over again."