Corey Taylor Explains Meaning Album Title ‘Hydrograd’
Some of you might’ve wondered why that title and what does it even mean.
In a recent interview with the radio station WRIF, frontman Corey Taylor shared the following about how they choose the title for the upcoming record (thanks to Loudwire for transcribing):
“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.”
Corey Taylor continues:
“So my brain is trying to do geometry while also at a sprint because 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? It didn’t say ‘Hydrograd.’ It didn’t even start with an ‘H.’ It wasn’t even close.”
Corey Taylor held on to the term he thought he saw and there it is, that’s how the title ‘Hydrograd’ came to be about!