Slipknot frontman records solo album

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is planning on launching a solo career.

Corey, who is also in a second band Stone Sour, has reportedly already recorded 40 songs for his first solo album.

"It's something that I'd like to do purely for myself," he told The Daily Record.

"It's something that I need to release before I can think about moving on to anything else.

"In both Slipknot and Stone Sour I'm slightly limited to how I can write and indeed what I can write about. The beauty of doing a solo album is that I can write whatever type of song I want."

Slipknot reached number two when they released their fourth studio album All Hope Is Gone in August 2008.