2LP - Storm Corrosion - S/T

2LP

Storm Corrosion was an album made by myself and Mikael Åkerfeldt of the band Opeth in 2012, and one which both of us considered a deeply satisfying artistic success. It remains one of my favourite releases in my whole catalogue. 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.

We’d talked many times over the years about doing a project with just the two of us. In 2011 we quietly got together for a week at my studio, and started to make music, not knowing where it would take us, but knowing that the last thing we wanted to do was the obvious. Instead, we found ourselves making an album of weird psychedelic chamber folk music with lots of dissonance, orchestral arrangements and odd bits. 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.