STONE SOUR RELEASE 'HYDROGRAD DELUXE EDITION'

STONE SOUR RELEASE HYDROGRAD DELUXE EDITION

FEATURING UNRELEASED B-SIDES, COVERS & ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF SONGS

FROM THE BAND’S ACCLAIMED LP HYDROGRAD

AVAILABLE TODAY AT DSPS & WWW.STONESOUR.COM

U.S. TOUR SUPPORTING OZZY OSBOURNE UNDERWAY

Internationally acclaimed rock band Stone Sour has released the deluxe edition of their acclaimed 2017 LP, HYDROGRAD which is available today at all DSPs and www.stonesour.com. The two-disc set, HYDROGRAD DELUXE EDITION, collects unreleased covers, b-sides, live recordings and alternate versions of songs from HYDROGRAD.

The deluxe edition is highlighted by “Burn One Turn One,” a previously unreleased b-side from HYDROGRAD, as well 13 rare or unreleased songs including an acoustic version of the #1 rock song “Song #3,” as well as covers of hits from Rage Against The Machine, Soundgarden and Van Halen.

Stone Sour are currently on a massive U.S. tour supporting Ozzy Osbourne as special guests on his “No More Tours 2” headline run. The cross-country trek is set to run through October 13th where it will wrap-up with a performance at Las Vegas, Nevada’s MGM Grand (see attached itinerary). For complete details and ticket availability, please visit www.stonesour.com/tour.

HYDROGRAD, the acclaimed 2017 LP from Stone Sour, rocketed onto the charts upon release, debuting at #1 on three Billboard charts: “Top Current Albums,” “Top Rock Albums,” and “Top Hard Rock Albums.” HYDROGRAD also debuted at #8 on the “Billboard 200,” marking the band’s fifth consecutive Top 10 debut on that chart. Furthermore, HYDROGRAD debuted at #5 in the U.K. (the band's highest debut ever in that country), #2 in Australia (highest debut ever), and was Top 5 in Germany, Japan, and Switzerland. The album features the ruminative single “St. Marie,” “Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb & So Am I),” which broke into the Top 10 at Active Rock Radio, and the smash “Song #3”, which was #1 for five straight weeks on U.S. Active Rock Radio chart. 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 60 million individual views at YouTube alone.

Stone Sour’s 2012 LPs, 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.

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.

Disc 1: 1. YSIF

2. Taipei Person /Allah Tea

3. Knievel Has Landed

4. Hydrograd

5. Song #3

6. Fabuless

7. The Witness Trees

8. Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb & So Am I)

9. Thank 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 Disc 2: 1) Burn One Turn One

2) Bootleg Ginger

3) Live Like You’re On Fire

4) Subversive

5) Unchained

6) Bombtrack

7) Outshined (Live at Sphere)

8) Song # 3 (Acoustic)

9) Mercy (Acoustic)

10) Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb & So Am I) (Acoustic)

11) The Witness Trees (Acoustic)

12) Mercy (Live at Sphere)

13) Fabuless (Live at Sphere)

STONE SOUR

ON TOUR 2018

8/30 – 10/13 – with Ozzy Osbourne

*Stone Sour U.S. Headline Date

SEPTEMBER

1 Syracuse, NY Lakeview Amphitheater

3 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE* 4 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage 6 Boston, MA Xfinity Center 8 Wantagh, NY Jones Beach 10 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts 12 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion 14 Washington D.C. Jiffy Lube

15 Raleigh, NC The Ritz* 16 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center 19 Detroit, MI DTE Energy 21 Chicago, IL Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

22 St. Louis, MO The Pageant* 23 Indianapolis, IN Ruoff Home Mortgage Center 26 Dallas, TX Starplex Pavilion 28 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 30 Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amphitheatre

OCTOBER

2 Denver, CO Pepsi Center 4 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre

5 Reno, NV Grand Theatre @ Grand Sierra Resort* 6 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre 9 San Diego, CA Mattress Firm Amphitheatre 11 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl 13 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand