STONE SOUR’s guitarist Josh Rand has supplied us with the following update. —— “As we roll into week four of the recording process for the new record, a lot has happened. Starting off with a week of pre-production as Nick pushed us to the brink and back, we fine tuned the songs for the record. Now with eighteen tracks slated to be recorded we were ready to begin recording the drum tracks. Two weeks into the recording of the drums Joel would have to leave the project and return home to his family. His nine-year-old son is very sick. He was diagnosed with Brain Stem Glioma (brain cancer) last fall. With the fate of the record now up in the air a decision had to be made- postpone the record or bring in someone to finish the drum tracks. So with Joel’s blessing, Roy Mayorga will finish the drum tracks as we move forward. On behalf of myself and the rest of Stone Sour our prayers go out to the Ekmans.” God Bless, Josh Stone Sour”