''CMF2'' is the second album by American musician

Corey Taylor Corey Todd Taylor (born December 8, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, author and actor. He is the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Slipknot (band), Slipknot, in which he is designated #8, as well as the lead vocalist, guitarist, ly ...

. It was released on September 15, 2023, by

BMG Rights Management BMG Rights Management GmbH (also known simply as BMG) is an international music company based in Berlin, Germany. It combines the activities of a music publisher and a record label. BMG was formed in October 2008 after Bertelsmann sold its st ...

Track listing

All lyrics and music are written by Corey Taylor, except where noted.

Personnel

– vocals, guitar,

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

on "The Box", spoken word on "Talk Sick", keyboards,

theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named aft ...

on "Starmate" and "Punchline" * Christian Martucci – guitar, backing vocals * Zach Throne – guitar, backing vocals * Dustin Robert – drums, percussion, vocals * Eliot Lorango – bass

Additional personnel

* Mariko Muranaka – cello on "The Box", "Midnight", "Sorry Me" *

Fred Mandel Frederick Lawrence Mandel is a Canadian session musician, keyboard player and guitarist. Career Born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Mandel started playing the piano at four and picked up the guitar aged eight. Growing up in an Orthodox Jewish h ...

– hammond organ on "Breath of Fresh Smoke" * Walter Bäcklin – additional keyboards, programming on "Beyond", "Midnight", "Punchline" and "Dead Flies" *

Roger Manning Roger Manning is a New York City based singer-songwriter who plays an aggressive acoustic style of music. Manning, along with a small handful of other artists, composed the original New York City anti-folk scene. On February 6, 1985, Manning w ...

– keyboards on "We Are the Rest", "Midnight", "Starmate" * Rah Satya – assistant * Sarah Pardini – cover design,

photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

* Zoe Thrall –

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Technical personnel

* Jay Ruston –

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, mixing,

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* Tristan Hardin –

* Paul Logus – mastering * Paul Bassett – drum technician

''CMF2B... or Not 2B''

On May 17, 2024, Corey Taylor released ''CMF2B... or Not 2B'', the

B-side The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph record, vinyl records and Compact cassette, cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings. The A-side of a Single (music), single usually ...

of ''CMF2''. It included four unreleased B-side tracks and eight cover tracks, including covers of his own bands

Stone Sour Stone Sour was an American rock band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1992. The band performed for five years before disbanding in 1997. They reunited in 2000; since 2015, the group has consisted of Corey Taylor (lead vocals, guitar), Josh Rand ...

and Slipknot.

References

{{Reflist 2023 albums Corey Taylor albums BMG Rights Management albums