The ever busy Corey Taylor, best known for his work with the band Slipknot, has opened up about being "scared to death" of the band's upcoming gigs after the death of bass player Paul Gray.

The Daily Express, reports the band have not played since Gray's overdose last May but they are due to make a comeback at Sonisphere this summer.

Taylor told Kerrang! magazine, "I'm scared to death. I'm nowhere near prepared for the emotion that's going to happen. That first show is really going to be the test. That tour for the most part is going to be a test. It's very hard, man... It's still reverberating through my life... We're coming up to the year anniversary of his death, and I still can't [expletive] handle it."

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