We can understand why Slipknot singer Corey Taylor and guitarist Jim Root -- the main instigators behind Stone Sour -- would want a side project that isn't just a carbon copy of their day job.

What we can't understand is why they would want a side project -- or at least a second album -- that's basically a carbon copy of every crappyass metal band from here to eternity.

Come What(ever) May is 48:54 of rock cliches and poses strung together into comfort food for the least discerning fan. The craggy vulcanized guitars, the pulverizing double-bass beats, the chest-beating vocals and agonized dinosaur bellowing, the anthemic choruses and power ballads; it all sounds like a cross between Godsmack and Nickelback on 'roids.

Back to the day job, boys.

Track Listing:

1. 30/30-150
2. Come What(ever) May
3. Hell & Consequences
4. sillyworld
5. Made Of Scars
6. Reborn
7. Your God
8. Through Glass
9. Socio
10. 1st Person
11. Cardiff
12. Zzyzx Rd.