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Two of the greatest names in the progressive metal
scene to date join forces to form this promising
new act Storm Corrosion; Opeth’s frontman
Mikael Åkerfeldt and Porcupine Tree’s
frontman Steve Wilson, joining forces to –
one can only assume- produce the best progrock album
in existence. The album is only 6 tracks long but
all of the songs are pretty lengthy in duration
with the longest being 10 minutes long, shortest
being just less than 5 minutes.
When the name drop has 2 of the most prestigious
names in the business in its biography expectations
are at an all time high for this project, but instead
of one of the most mind blowing experiences of my
life I’ve felt the dissatisfaction that I
felt when hearing Opeth’s latest release “Heritage”.
The first song “Drag Ropes” shows that
this is not a heavy metal album like the rest of
both musicians other projects but is instead more
of a downbeat calming style opposing the aggression
that is usually found in these 2 men. This is exactly
why I didn’t like Opeth’s latest release
either because they were taking away everything
from their sound that most people actually listened
to them for, it isn’t just me that would have
got to the assumption that this album was going
to be one of the biggest metal albums of the decade,
instead what we’re going to have here is a
lot of very disappointed metal head’s who’ve
splashed their cash and effectively had their boners
castrated.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying this
is a bad album at all, quite contraire to that,
it’s good at what it is but it’s more
like one of those late night TV advertised rainforest
sound CD’s that try to help with natural sleep
as opposed to a rock album. It’s really not
the kind of thing I would sit down and think “Oh
you know what? Today I fancy listening to a bit
of Storm Corrosion” no it’s more like
the song’s that come on shuffle and I immediately
skip over, sorry lads but for me not even a wiggle
in my trousers was had here and I’ve listened
to the entire thing a fair few times now and it’s
just not what I was expecting and not what I wanted
from this sort of collaboration.
2.5/5
Review by James Webb |
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Mikael Åkerfeldt
Steven Wilson |
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1. Drag Ropes
2. Storm Corrosion
3. Hag
4. Happy
5. Lock Howl
6. Ljudet Innan |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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