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The Dead Deads Featuring Corey Taylor, “Murder Ballad II”
Not every Corey Taylor collaboration is with a huge band. In fact, Taylor’s love for upstarts The Dead Deads led to him making a guest appearance on their melodically melancholy “Murder Ballad II.”
Taylor and guitarist Meta Dead co-wrote the song, then the singer hopped on the track from the band’s 2021 album Tell Your Girls It’s Alright to lend a helping hand.
“My little brother was teasing me the other day about the juxtaposition of our poorly-attended first gig playing a benefit show of Dead Milkmen covers to now releasing a duet with Corey Taylor,” says guitarist Meta Dead. “I know most people’s question is probably going to be: How did this happen? And the answer is: CMFT is nice as hell, and likes the kind of songs we write.”
Bassist Daisy Dead added in a press release statement, “It went from, ‘Yay, we’re on tour with Stone Sour’ to ‘Yay, Corey might want to co-write for the new record’ to ‘Yay, here’s a single and a video with CMFT,’ and it all felt pretty natural and also a bit surreal. I mean, our band dressed as Slipknot for Halloween once, so, yeah! It’s wild.”
Taylor himself spoke about the track and working with the band during an interview with Matt Pinfield, commenting, “I got turned on to (The Dead Deads) by their album For Your Obliteration… which is such a great album and is some of the best songwriting I’ve heard in years. We had the chance to have them on some Stone Sour shows, and me and Tish hit it off as songwriters. She said, ‘I’ve got this idea for a follow-up to ‘Murder Ballad,’ which was essentially ‘Murder Ballad II.’ Through video, we went back and forth, building this song and working it out. It became something really really cool.”
