Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt Begin Storm Corrosion Follow-Up

Requiem For A Village is released on November 6. Wilson and Åkerfeldt rented a studio owned by Benny Andersson of Abba to begin work on the follow-up to Storm Corrosion's self-titled 2012 album.

Wilson said Storm Corrosion spent a week in Stockholm earlier this year and created a 45-minute framework. Wilson described the Storm Corrosion piece as almost entirely acoustic but not completely acoustic, with Åkerfeldt still playing some electric guitars. Wilson said the vocal tracking for the Storm Corrosion piece had not yet been done. Wilson said the first Storm Corrosion album has close affinity with Requiem For A Village.

Wilson said Porcupine Tree songs have been written but are a long way from being an album's worth, so it could be years. Wilson and Tim Bowness have sketched out a double album's worth of No-Man material over the last couple of years. Wilson and Andy Partridge have talked about returning to the landscape they imagined for Requiem For A Village. Partridge suggested the second part of a potential sequel would be about the people and the third about the animals, birds or the dead.