![News Added Jan 23, 2017 STONE SOUR has set "Hydrograd" as the title of its new album, tentatively due this summer via Roadrunner Records. The disc is being recorded at Sphere Studios in North Hollywood, California. During this past weekend's NAMM show in Anaheim, California, STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor told Rock Cellar magazine about […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Stone_Sour_Hydrograd-320x320.jpg "Stone Sour : Hydrograd")
STONE SOUR has set "Hydrograd" as the title of its new album, tentatively due this summer via Roadrunner Records. The disc is being recorded at Sphere Studios in North Hollywood, California.
During this past weekend's NAMM show in Anaheim, California, STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor told Rock Cellar magazine about the upcoming album (see video below): "We are doing everything old school. We're recording it live and then layering stuff on top of it. We are doing a song a day, and we've already done nine songs; we're about halfway done. And, yeah, it is incredible; it's the best stuff we've ever written."
Taylor recently told Matt Pinfield about the musical direction of the new STONE SOUR material: "It is such a great amalgam of all of these different styles that we just absolutely love. It's got a little bit of the heavy, like we like to do, but it's also way more hard rock — way more rock 'n' roll and hard rock than heavy. I mean, there's even a little bit of punk in there. And there's an energy there that is gonna decimate and blow away a lot of stuff that comes out [this] year. That's how excited I am."
Regarding the recording sessions for the next STONE SOUR album, Corey said: "We're [co-producing] ourselves with a good friends of ours named Jay Ruston, who has done a lot of work with a lot of different people. He has produced and mixed STEEL PANTHER, ANTHRAX [and] a bunch of different other people. He also mixed the two 'House Of Gold And Bones' albums that we put out, and he mixed the two covers EPs that STONE SOUR put out as well. So we have a great relationship with him, and he's somebody we really trust and we absolutely love to work with."
Gotta be honest, I don’t know what to expect w/o Jim Root writing….let alone playing…but I guess I shall give the new guitarist a chance
I completely agree. Just how much influence Root had is yet to be seen.
As soon as I heard Fabuless, I regained my confidence in this band again.
Only one more month to go…
New track – Mercy – https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=WnA8B6ij1Zc
After the 4 tracks released, I can honestly say I am more excited for this than any of their previous albums.
I hear ya and I completely agree. Can’t wait for this album to drop.
Corey makes this band sound amazing. Jim Root is great but let’s be honest, what would this band or slipknot for that matter be without Corey?
Please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks it’s kinda funny that “Song #3” is track 5 on the album
Corey said in an interview that he has a reason why it’s called song three but doesn’t want to tell it. Maybe it’s simply the third song written for the album. My guess is, since it’s a love song, that it’s the third song written about someone, his wife most likely.
I can’t wait for this album. I’m totally going to buy it anyways, even when it leaks!
It’s amazing how albums like this used to leak out weeks and months early back in the days, but now it takes a while for it to happen. But it’s good!
First day buyer, for sure!
Why there is no leak yet? :O
It looks like they will actually be selling cd bundles at Amoeba records tomorrow so looks like we’ll have it then. P
Wondering the same. Fantastic vault job on their part.
Albums don’t usually get leaked weeks or days in advance anymore. It’s usually on or very close to the release date.
Saw on twitter that people are starting to get their CDs in the mail. My guess is that it’ll hit the internet today.
Per Stone Sour’s twitter page, Amoeba Records in LA is actually selling copies of Hydrograd today if anyone is near that location.
Leaked!
when? how do i get it?
With the exception of St.Marie and MAYBE When the Fever Broke..the album is about as solid as they come. My expectations were set pretty low after the first couple of singles but I was pleasantly surprised. Witness Trees is by far the best track on the album for me. I love everything about it. Definitely worth a listen to anybody who’s on the fence about it.
Agreed. I appreciate St. Marie for being so different than any other track they’ve done before, but I can’t stand country music, so that one is tough for me to listen to. I think Fever might be a grower. I like it more with every liste. I can’t say yet whether or not I like Hydrograd more than HoGaB, but it’s a damn solid album.
The entire album is now on Stone Sour’s official YouTube channel.