Stone Sour wants to make you a promise: Their music won't be confused with Nickelback's or Three Days Grace.

In an interview with Weekend, Stone Sour guitarist James Root said via telephone from his home in Atlantic Beach, Fla., "At the end of the day, we have to look at ourselves in the mirror every day, and be comfortable with the decisions we’ve made... 99.9 percent of our ideas are our own."

In Thursday's Weekend, Root talks about where the music industry’s headed, how they keep two Grammy-nominated acts alive and what we’re in store for at Leach Amphitheater Saturday, Aug. 4 when their "Come What(ever) May" tour comes to town.

Here's a sneak peek:

Weekend: Some people may be seeing you live for the first time here. What can they expect from Stone Sour?

Root: Really high energy, really loud, you know, just kind of having fun and playing. And when I say ‘have fun,’ it may or may not be making faces at each other, spitting on each other (laughs), but you’re there to have fun. We get to do what we love every night, and we try to do it as best we can. We’re at a point now where we’ve been touring a little over a year on this album, so we’re ready to throw down on stage. I think it’s a good show. I’ve seen a lot of live bands, and when I watch our DVDs, see the video of us playing, it’s a pretty good show.

Weekend: Are you inspired by any rock acts on the scene today?

Root: Lamb of God is a great band, just great guys, really friendly. Mastodon, they’re a bunch of cool dudes, an amazing band. Those are some of the bands I look up to. And the band we’re bringing over from Australia, Sydonia, they’re a really amazing band, and the lead singer’s got a very unique voice They’re really heavy but incorporate so many different vibes that it’s a little bit hard to categorize them musically. I think, too, that’s something music’s sort of lost.