STONE SOUR SHARE NEW SONG “MERCY” LIVE FROM SPHERE STUDIOS
PRE-ORDERS FOR HYDROGRAD AVAILABLE AT ALL DSPS AND WWW.STONESOUR.COM
“SONG #3” CLOSING IN ON #1 AT ACTIVE ROCK RADIO
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR ALONGSIDE KORN BEGINS JUNE 16TH IN SALT LAKE CITY, UT
HYDROGRAD ARRIVES EVERYWHERE FRIDAY, JUNE 30TH
WATCH STONE SOUR PERFORM NEW SONG “MERCY” LIVE FROM SPHERE STUDIOS
Breakthrough rock act Stone Sour has shared a fourth new track off their highly anticipated LP, HYDROGRAD. Today the band unveiled a live video for “Mercy,” which they performed and recorded at Sphere Studios in North Hollywood, CA. The performance of “Mercy” is streaming now on Stone Sour’s official YouTube channel.
Stone Sour’s eagerly awaited new LP, HYDROGRAD, features the tracks “Song #3,” “Fabuless,” and “Taipei Person/Allah Tea,” which are available now at all DSPs and streaming services. Lead single “Song #3” is currently the #2 song at Active Rock Radio this week as it continues to close in on the #1 spot. Additionally, the Ryan Valdez directed music video for “Song #3” has received 2 million views since it’s release, while the track has been streamed nearly 3 million times on Spotify alone. “Fabuless” is joined by an official music video, directed by Paul Brown, which has amassed over 4 million views on Stone Sour’s official YouTube channel.
HYDROGRAD is available for pre-order at all DSPs and via www.stonesour.com, with all pre-orders accompanied by instant grat downloads of “Fabuless,” “Song #3” and “Taipei Person/Allah Tea” (see tracklisting / album art attached). Exclusive pre-order merch bundles are also available at www.stonesour.com.
Next month Stone Sour will celebrate HYDROGRAD with an epic summer trek alongside fellow Roadrunner recording group Korn. “The Serenity of Summer Tour” gets underway June 16th at Salt Lake City, UT’s USANA Amphitheatre and then travels through early August (see tour itinerary attached). Presented by Live Nation, support throughout the eclectic tour comes from Babymetal, Skillet, Yelawolf, Islander and Ded. Furthermore, Stone Sour has several festival appearances slated for this summer including Rock Fest (7/14), Rock USA (7/15), Chicago Open Air (7/16) and more. This fall Stone Sour will head overseas for an international leg of their ‘Hydrograd World Tour’ which will kick off November 10th with a performance at Moscow, Russia’s Stadium. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit www.stonesour.com.
Stone Sour unleashed their eponymous debut album in 2002 and was immediately confirmed as one of the most significant hard rock outfits of the 21st century. The self-titled release earned RIAA gold certification while singles “Get Inside” and “Inhale” each received GRAMMY® Award nominations for “Best Metal Performance.”
COME WHAT(EVER) MAY followed in 2006 and proved an even greater accomplishment with a top 5 debut on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 and a #1 entry onto Billboard’s “Rock Albums” chart. The acclaimed album spawned still another GRAMMY®-nominated single in “30/30-150” on its own way to RIAA gold certification. COME WHAT(EVER) MAY unleashed a series of rock radio classics, including “Sillyworld,” “Made of Scars,” the #1 hit, “Through Glass,” which spent seven weeks atop Billboard’s “Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks” while also reaching #2 on “Alternative Songs” and the top 40 on the overall “Hot 100.” The song’s companion video was also a favorite, now with over 48 million individual views at YouTube alone.
Stone Sour’s most recent all-original releases, the monumental HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES – PART 1 and HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES – PART 2, both made top 10 debuts on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 just six months apart from one another – the band’s third and fourth consecutive top 10 chart entries. The two-part concept album yielded a string of multi-format rock radio hits, including the top 5 favorites “Absolute Zero,” “Do Me A Favor,” and “Tired,” the latter of which ascended to #1 at Mainstream Rock outlets nationwide.
HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES drew widespread critical applause with ArtistDirect hailing “PART 1” as “a milestone for Stone Sour and for modern rock music. It’s on par with Alice In Chains’ ‘DIRT,’ Metallica’s MASTER OF PUPPETS, Queens of the Stone Age’s SONGS FOR THE DEAF, Soundgarden’s SUPERUNKNOWN, and any other game-changing albums you can think of.” HOUSE OF GOLD & BONES – PART 2 earned equally great acclaim, including placement on Revolver’s “Top 20 Albums of 2013” and Loudwire’s “Top 10 Rock + Metal Albums of 2013” ranking. The Guardian, in its four-out-of-five starred rave, praised Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor’s “remarkable transformation into heavy music’s premier polymath and renaissance man” while further hailing the album’s “towering melodies and moments of radio-friendly majesty, the band’s trademark straddling of the divide between metal and commercial rock sounding increasingly adroit.”
2015 saw the arrival of STRAIGHT OUTTA BURBANK, an unprecedented EP in which Stone Sour take on five immortal songs originally performed by such iconic artists as Bad Brains, Iron Maiden, The Rolling Stones, Mötley Crüe, and Slayer. The EP is highlighted by a stunning rendition of The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” featuring distinctive guest vocals from Lzzy Hale of Atlantic recording group Halestorm, STRAIGHT OUTTA BURBANK is available now at all DSPs and streaming services.
Known far and wide as a truly incendiary live act, Stone Sour has built an international fan following through countless headline tours, multi-artist caravans, and performances at such famed festivals as Rock In Rio and the UK’s Download Festival.
Stone Sour is: Corey Taylor (vocals), Josh Rand (guitar), Roy Mayorga (drums), Johny Chow (bass), and Christian Martucci (guitar).
For additional news and information, please visit stonesour.com, facebook.com/stonesour, twitter.com/stonesour, youtube.com/stonesour, and roadrunnerrecords.com.
STONE SOUR ON TOUR SUMMER 2017
6/16 – 8/2 with Korn
*Festival Date
JUNE
16 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
18 Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amphitheater
20 Chula Vista, CA Mattress Firm Amphitheatre
21 Inglewood, CA The Forum
22 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
24 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre
25 Nampa, ID Ford Idaho Center
26 Pocatello, ID Portneuf Wellness Complex Amphitheatre
30 Mesa, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre
JULY
1 Las Vegas, NV T Mobile Arena
14 Cadott, WI Rock Fest*
15 Oshkosh, WI Rock USA*
16 Bridgeview, IL Chicago Open Air*
19 Syracuse, NY Lakeview Amphitheater
20 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center
22 Bangor, ME Rise Above Fest*
23 Hartford, CT XFINITY Theatre
25 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage
26 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion
27 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
29 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
30 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
AUGUST
1 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
2 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
7 Jackson, MI Jackson County Fairgrounds*
23 Auckland, New Zealand Spark Arena
25 Melbourne, Australia Festival Hall
26 Sydney, Australia Hordern Pavilion
30 Brisbane Australia Eatons Hill Hotel
SEPTEMBER
4 Koto-Ku, Japan Zepp DiverCity
5 Koto-Ku, Japan Zepp DiverCity
7 Nagoya, Japan Zepp Nagoya
8 Osaka, Japan Zepp Osaka Bayside
22 Greenwood Village, CO High Elevation Rock Festival*
NOVEMBER
10 Moscow, Russia Stadium
15 Copenhagen, Denmark The Gray Hall
16 Stockholm, Sweden Annexet
17 Oslo, Norway Sentrum Scene
19 Frankfurt, Germany Jahrhunderthalle
20 Berlin, Germany Columbiahalle
22 Brussels, Belgium AB
23 Eindhoven, Netherlands Klokgebouw
24 Paris, France Bataclan
26 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Luxepo
27 Hamburg, Germany Sporthalle
29 Birmingham, United Kingdom Barclaycard Arena
30 Leeds, United Kingdom First Direct Arena
DECEMBER
1 Brighton, United Kingdom Centre
4 London, United Kingdom O2 Brixton Academy
5 Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff International Arena
8 Glasgow, United Kingdom SSE Hydro
10 Cologne, Germany Palladium
11 Munich, Germany Zenith
12 Vienna, Austria Gasometer
14 Zurich, Switzerland Samsung Hall
15 Milan, Italy Alcatraz
