| Storm Corrosion | |
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| Genres | Progressive rock |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Labels | Roadrunner Records |
| Associated acts | Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Blackfield |
| Members | |
| Steven Wilson Mikael Åkerfeldt |
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Storm Corrosion is a musical collaboration between Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth.[1] The self-titled release is set to be released in April 2012 on Roadrunner Records.[2] It has been described as being "the final part in the odd trilogy of records completed by (Opeth's) Heritage and Steven Wilson‘s brand new solo album Grace for Drowning.[3][4]
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Wilson and Åkerfeldt had each worked with each other and their respective bands in the past. Wilson helped Akerfeldt produce the Opeth albums Blackwater Park, Deliverance and Damnation, while Akerfeldt contributed vocals and guitar to Wilson's Porcupine Tree album Deadwing.
Having worked with each other in the past, they decided to start work, on an on and off basis, on a collaboration in March 2010.[5] Mike Portnoy of the band Dream Theater was intially reported to be a drummer for the material, but Akerfeldt later revealed that he was no longer part of the project, citing that "there's just no room for drums on what we've done so far".[6] Wilson would later clarify that only "15-20%" of the album would have drums on it, and it would be performed by Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison.[7] The album was completed in September 2011, but held back for an April 2012 release so that Wilson could concentrate on releasing and promoting his second solo album, Grace for Drowning, and Akerfeldt could concentrate on Opeth's tenth studio album Heritage, both albums being released in September 2011 themselves.[8]
Wilson said of the project:
| “ | Because I think we both had this idea of this kind of music that we knew we couldn’t get our bands to play, but that we both kind of understood where we were coming from. ‘Cause we have this kind of passion: very experimental, obscure records, almost orchestral in their scope. And we wanted to make a record like that for a long time. It’s a long way from metal and it’s a long way from anything that, I think, Mikael has ever done, including [Opeth’s] Damnation record. I think a lot of people thought, ‘Oh, it’s gonna be like Damnation.’ It’s not; it’s a long way from that, too. And it’s actually a long way from anything I’ve done…The one thing we didn’t wanna do is get together and do a prog-metal supergroup, which would have been so easy to do — and kind of expected, in a way. And, you know, we might do that anyway one day. But this time around , we thought, ‘Let’s just do this record.’ Some people will love it and some people will not, and that’s OK, because, in a way, I don’t think we wanted to just give what was expected, and we’re certainly not doing that.”[9] | ” |
Wilson also said that on the album, Akerfeldt did most of the guitar work, while Wilson concentrated on the keyboard parts and arranging the music.[10][11] He described it as contains a lot of orchestral parts, and as "Mellow, strange, and disturbing".[12][13] Akerfeldt has confirmed that the album will contain 6 tracks, with each one being over 10 minutes long.[14]
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