Steven Wilson confirms work is underway on a second Storm Corrosion album

Steven Wilson has confirmed that Storm Corrosion, his experimental collaboration with Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt, is no longer just discussing a potential second album. The musicians have begun working on new material, according to Wilson’s appearance in an Innerviews conversation with interviewer Anil Prasad.

Wilson described the project as a substantial piece of music built largely around acoustic instrumentation. Rather than promising a repeat of the duo’s 2012 debut, he suggested the new work would retain its distinctive musical character while moving into different territory.

It’s very different, but also you will recognize the aesthetic, shall we say. I don’t wanna say too much about it, ’cause we’ve still got a long way to go on it. It’s a massive chunk of music, and it’s almost entirely played on acoustic instruments. But a lot of them. We were talking earlier about my [upcoming] solo album [‘Requiem For A Village’] being a lot of it playing instruments, approaching instruments in a kind of idiot savant way. There’s a lot of that on Storm Corrosion as well.

It’s funny, I saw a couple of people reviewing the, the playback events we did for ‘Requiem For A Village’, and more than a few of them mentioned how it reminded them a little bit of the Storm Corrosion record — the first one, of course, they would’ve been referring to, and I think there is a little bit of that in ‘Requiem For A Village’. So it’s definitely continuing on the vocabulary that we created with the first record, but it’s also very different, if that’s not a contradiction in terms. And we wouldn’t do it otherwise.

Fourteen years after the debut

Storm Corrosion’s self-titled album arrived in 2012 and took an unexpected route through unsettling folk textures, avant-garde arrangements and atmospheric progressive music. It stood apart from the heavier sounds associated with both musicians. The album received a new Dolby Atmos mix for its 2024 reissue.

Åkerfeldt had already spoken earlier this year about the pair’s interest in another collaboration, but Wilson’s latest comments go further by confirming that work has started. No album title or release date has been announced.

Wilson is also preparing his solo album “Requiem For A Village”, scheduled for November 6, 2026. Chaoszine previously reported on his recent solo work.

Watch the original Innerviews conversation below; the Storm Corrosion discussion begins at approximately 23:30.