Storm Corrosion Sign To Roadrunner Records

Roadrunner Records have signed Storm Corrosion, a collaboration between Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth. The pair have been friends since the late ‘90s, when Wilson co-produced Opeth’s ‘Blackwater Park’ album. Over the years, they’d spoken of working on a project together, but it wasn’t until recently that they managed to make something happen.

A self-titled ‘Storm Corrosion’ album will hit stores on 23^rd April.

Steven Wilson says, “If you’d asked me three months ago about the music, I would have said, ‘Expect the last thing you would expect.’ But actually, now that ‘Heritage’ and ‘Grace Of Drowning’ have come out, I don’t think it’s going to be that much of a shock to people, because it’s almost like a third part of the trilogy, in a way. If anything, it’s even more orchestral, even more stripped down, even more dark, twisted and melancholic… but it certainly feels like it comes from the same place as ‘Heritage’ and ‘Grace For Drowning’, which indeed it does because it was written during the same period.”

“Some of the music on this record I think is the most beautiful music I have participated on ever,” adds Åkerfeldt. “There’s some magical sections on there. Musically I think we’ve created something earthy, a bit frightening, exhausting, profound and rather intense. All at the same time. I can safely say I don’t know any other band or artist that sounds anything like Storm Corrosion. I guess that was also one of our goals, so to speak.”

For more info, check http://www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/artist/Storm+Corrosion