Steven Wilson has offered another update on the long-awaited second album from STORM CORROSION, his collaborative project with OPETH‘s Mikael Åkerfeldt. The musicians have already made significant progress on the follow-up to their 2012 self-titled debut, with Wilson now revealing that they have put together a 45-minute piece of music that he describes as dark, unconventional, and beautiful.
Speaking to U.K.’s Prog magazine, Wilson explained that he and Åkerfeldt spent a week together in Stockholm earlier this year, developing the musical foundation for the new record.
“We spent a week in Stockholm earlier this year and created a 45-minute framework,” Wilson revealed. “A single piece of music that is 45 minutes long, and it’s f**ked up. It’s almost entirely acoustic, but it’s very dark, very atonal in places, and very beautiful in places. It has a vaguely nautical theme about an old guy shipwrecked on an island.
“It’s not completely acoustic,” he clarified. “Mike still plays some electric guitars. But Benny from ABBA has this incredible collection of instruments and we set them up in the studio and we basically just went around playing all manner of stuff. I was like a man possesse...