Hydrograd
Stone Sour album
Hydrograd is the sixth studio album by American rock band Stone Sour. Recorded at Sphere Studios in Los Angeles, it is the follow-up to the band's 2012–2013 albums House of Gold & Bones – Part 1 and Part 2. It was released worldwide on June 30, 2017, via Roadrunner Records.
Hydrograd also had a special album premiere with commentary on each song from frontman Corey Taylor on June 29, 2017, on Octane (Sirius XM). Two singles were released in promotion of the album ahead of its release: "Fabuless" and "Song #3". A third single, "Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb & So Am I)", was released on September 13, 2017, and a fourth and fifth, "St. Marie" and "Knievel Has Landed", on April 4 and August 23, 2018. On October 24, 2017, Hydrograd won the award for Hard Rock Album of the Year at the Loudwire Music Awards.
Hydrograd is the first album to be produced without founding guitarist Jim Root, following his departure from Stone Sour in 2014 to focus on his and Taylor's other band, Slipknot. It is also the band's most recent studio album, and the last to be released before they entered an indefinite hiatus in 2020.
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