Stone Sour Release Bizarre New Album Teaser

We just got an e-mail with the subject line ‘HYDROGRAD APRIL 27.’ This is the entire body of the e-mail:

Clicking through the link brings you, of course, to Stone Sour’s website,  which has a bunch of weird computer code and this video:

We already know that Hydrograd is the name of the new Stone Sour album, and since the band has even played the record for a super-fan, we can assume it’s complete. That being said, I’d wager this is just meant to tease an April 27 release for the first single (perhaps the title track?), not the whole album. Hopefully Stone Sour know that surprise releases don’t work out very well for metal bands.

You’ll know more when we do.