From Loudersound.
Storm Corrosion, Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt‘s 2012 side-project, is to have their sole 2012 release reissued on vinyl through Kscope Records on September 27. You can watch a video trailer for the new reissue below.
“It remains one of my favourite releases in my whole catalogue,” says Wilson. “Part of what made it so much fun was that pretty much anything that either of us suggested, the other would agree it should definitely be pursued, no matter how crazy and off the wall it sounded. I don’t know what the people expecting a full-on heavy rock album made of it. In many ways it has become the cult classic we always intended it to be…”
The new reissue will be available as a gatefold vinyl double album in orange and purple vinyl, yellow and black vinyl, plus an eight-page booklet and on Blu-ray and CD,
The Blu-ray will feature a new Steven Wilson 2024 Dolby Atmos mix of the album’s six tracks, plus Hi-Res stereo and 5.1 DTS HD surround sound mixes and instrumental mixes of each track, plus a mini-album documentary, the promo video for Drag Ropes plus a live recording of the song from Royal Albert Hall in 2015 and demo versions of Drag Ropes and Hag.
Fans have long clamoured for a second album of the disquieting acid folk-meets-prog the pair conjured up in Storm Corrosion and while both Wilson and Akerfeldt remain fond of the album, with a new Opeth album and a new Steven Wilson solo album on the horizon, it seems they’ll be waiting a while longer.
“I love that record,” Wilson told Prog back in 2021. “Obviously, there’s a geographical issue. We can’t just get together on Tuesday nights and jam and we don’t want to do it by email. We did Storm Corrosion when we were in the same room at the same time the whole time we made that record, and we wouldn’t want to do a record any other way. I like to think we’ll do it eventually.”
In the brand-new issue of Classic Rock Magazine Akerfeldt adds, “I went to see Steven in London to talk and to drink. I pitched the idea of a possible next record from Storm Corrosion, He didn’t really buy into the idea.
“Steve doesn’t want to send music [over the Internet]. He prefers to make it together in the same room. But I’ll bring it up again. I’m sure we’ll do something new.”
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