Resident Neurosis visual artist (and ex-Red Sparowes guitarist/Battle Of Mice multi-tasker) Josh Graham & his revolving cast of players are releasing the third A Storm Of Light album next month: The rock-oriented (but still vast) As We Become The Valley of Death, Our Silver Dreams Fade follows 2009’s Forgive Us Our Trespasses. Appropriately, the heavy, doomy, truly lighter-lifting 9-song collection includes Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil on two tracksJosh Graham (Storm of Light) passed along his thoughts on the collaboration: Read his words and then take a listen to “Missing,” a song that includes Thayil along with regular A Storm Of Light collaborator, vocalist Nerissa Campbell (click to Stereogum for the track).
‘We first met Kim Thayil at our Seattle show with Shrinebuilder about a year ago. That show led to me working with Soundgarden over the last 9 months, completing artwork for Telephantasm and Live on I5. Over the course of those projects Kim and I became friends, talking extensively about music, ours and others we like.
Simultaneously Storm had begun working on our third studio record, experimenting with shorter, faster, and heavier material. As the record started to come together we realized it was moving into more of the rock world, which we’re kind of surprised by but decided to embrace it. Over the course of the last four releases (our Latitudes session is coming out soon as well) we’ve invited musicians and friends alike to play with us both on record and live. It keeps things fresh and always evolving, something we are really into as band.’
Read and listen more via A Storm Of Light – “Missing” (Feat. Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil & Nerissa Campbell) – Stereogum.
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