### Storm Corrosion: Storm corrosion

#### 27/11/12 || The Duff

What happens when two nerd prog genii collide and begin to kiss and rub each other in prog olive oil? Do you get a super-prog alien love child? Mikael Akerfeldt and Steven Wilson have collaborated many times in the past, most famously on Opeth albums “Blackwater Park”, “Deliverance” and “Damnation”.

Steven Wilson produced said albums, but Mikael I think has also contributed a solo and maybe even some vocals here and there on Porcupine Tree albums, around the “Deadwing”-era. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m Fuck You. Storm Corrosion I don’t think was a surprise to anyone’s stretch of the imagination, in interviews both musicians having expressed very similar musical interests and a grand mutual admiration for each other’s work.

This here debut and self-titled record has been stated as unlikely to turn heads if you’re already aware of Steven’s and Mikael’s respective recent outputs. It has also been hinted that this record mirrors Opeth’s “Heritage” and Steven Wilson’s “Grace for Drowning” to such that it might well be considered the closing of a trilogy.

Well, “Grace for Drowning” was a remarkable two-disc affair on par with all of Wilson’s work, more of the same never really hurt me but Opeth’s “Heritage” definitely left me wanting. Thankfully then “Storm Corrosion”, and not to take away any from Mikael’s probably equal contribution to this record, sounds like a Steven Wilson project with guest-appearance, sounding like a condensed “Grace for Drowning” with hints of Camel.

Yes, Camel, like I said, not many surprises, but this is essentially sweet-smooth jazz-rock delivered in production values true to the SW’s past-displayed talents. Keys, pianos, folk, solos, ethereal vocals, dreamscapes, and hints of Akerfeldt lush leads, clean vocals and occasional hints of bizarre, eerie shit, downcast and lush alike.

- Information
- Released: 2012
- Label: Roadrunner Records
- Website: www.stormcorrosion.com
- Band
- Steven Wilson: arrangements, keyboards, vocals
- Mikael Åkerfeldt: guitars, vocals

- Tracklist
- 01. Drag Ropes
- 02. Storm Corrosion
- 03. Hag
- 04. Happy
- 05. Lock Howl
- 06. Ljudet Innan