STONE SOUR and SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor was recently interviewed by Meltdown of the Detroit, Michigan radio station WRIF. Entire chat can be listened below.
Asked where the title of the new STONE SOUR album, “Hydrograd”, came from, Taylor said: “I’m running through this airport in Eastern Europe. This was only a few years ago. No offense to the airport — it was kind of antiquated; they hadn’t really upgraded anything. So the gate info was all on those old-school ’80s block-letter, number, digital horrible Timex watch kind of readers. This would have been top of the line in Times Square in, like, 1968, let’s put it that way. So not only is it impossible to read, it’s also scrolling back and forth between Cyrillic and regular English letters.
“It’s also scrolling back and forth between different languages. So my brain is trying to do geometry while also at a sprint, ’cause I don’t wanna miss my plane. I pass one, and I look up and I could have swore it said ‘Hydrograd.’ And I kept running for a second, and I was, like, ‘Hydrograd? Where the hell is Hydrograd? What?’ So I stopped and I turned around and I went back to the gate, and I’m standing there and I’m watching it cycle through and cycle through and cycle through… Nothing.
“It didn’t say ‘Hydrograd.’ It didn’t even start with an ‘H.’ It wasn’t even close. And I’m just sitting there wondering when my sanity split on me, trying to figure it out. And I walked away and I was just, like, ‘Well, it’s a cool name.’ And I just kind of stuck it in my pocket. And then years later we were doing demos for [the new STONE SOUR album], and I actually named one of the songs I wrote ‘Hydrograd’. And I was, like, ‘You know what? That would be a good name for the album overall and just kind of run with it.’ So that’s it, really — it was what I saw but didn’t really see.”
“Hydrograd” which will be released on June 30 via Roadrunner.
“Hydrograd” track listing:
01. YSIF
02. Taipei Person/Allah Tea
03. Knievel Has Landed
04. Hydrograd
05. Song #3
06. Fabuless
07. The Witness Trees
08. Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb & So Am I)
09. Thanks God It’s Over
10. St. Marie
11. Mercy
12. Whiplash Pants
13. Friday Knights
14. Somebody Stole My Eyes
15. When The Fever Broke
