10, 2020, Taylor announced on 'The Green Room with Neil Griffiths' podcast that Stone Sour was taking a hiatus, saying: "I feel like Stone Sour has kinda run its course for now," "We all talked as a band and decided to kinda put Stone Sour in indefinite hiatus. That's the way it is. We've put it on the shelf for now. Everyone's kind of going and doing their own thing." Musical style Throughout the band's career, their musical style has been described as alternative metal, hard rock, heavy metal, and alternative rock. Their music features double bass drum patterns, heavy guitar riffs, dual guitar harmonies and vocally combining screaming with singing. Guitarist Josh Rand stated in an interview, that he tries to bring a metal aspect and elements of thrash metal in their music. He also stated that his writing style is different than Slipknot's writing style. Stone Sour's fourth and fifth albums, House of Gold & Bones - Part 1 and Part 2 are notable for their concept album format, and have led to comparisons to progressive rock bands. When asked about this, Josh Rand stated: "I still think it's us. We never said that we would be Genesis or Dream Theater or Yes or any of those types of bands. We're not a prog band. We said we're going to adopt the ideas of those stories and stuff, but it's still going to be a Stone Sour record, where you can still pull those individual songs. We just wanted to offer something more - in a world where it's all about singles, we just wanted to do something different. We've always evolved from record to record, if you listen to our entire catalog." Band members Past members Corey Taylor – lead vocals, occasional rhythm guitar, keyboards (1992–1997, 2000–2020) Josh Rand – rhythm guitar, occasional lead guitar, backing vocals (2000–2020), bass (2000) Roy Mayorga – drums, keyboards (2006–2020) Johny Chow – bass, backing vocals (2012–2020) Christian Martucci – lead guitar, backing vocals (2014–2020) Jim Root – lead guitar (1995–1997, 2000–2014) Joel Ekman – drums (1992–1997, 2000–2006) Shawn Economaki – bass (1993–1997, 2000–2012) Former touring musicians Jason Christopher – bass, backing vocals (2011) Mike Portnoy – drums (2011) Jonah Nimoy – rhythm guitar (2018) R.J. Ronquillo – rhythm guitar (2018) Timeline (2000–2020) Recording timeline Discography Stone Sour (2002) Come What(ever) May (2006) Audio Secrecy (2010) House of Gold & Bones