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SOUNDGARDEN Guitarist Guests On A STORM OF LIGHT Album; Audio Available

April 7, 2011

A STORM OF LIGHT's new album, "As The Valley of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade", will be released on May 17 via Profound Lore Records. The CD was co-produced by Graham Joel Hamilton (who lends keyboards to the record as well) and features several guests that are sure to have the metal world talking. SOUNDGARDEN guitarist Kim Thayil appears on two tracks, as does Jarboe (SWANS). There are also appearances from Carla Kihlstedt (SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM),Kris Force (AMBER ASYLUM),Matthias Bossi (SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM, SKELETON KEY) and longtime collaborator Nerissa Campbell.

"As the Valley of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade" track listing:

01. Missing (feat. Kim Thayil and Nerissa Campbell)
02. Collapse (feat. Jarboe)
03. Black Wolves (feat. Kim Thayil and Nerissa Campbell)
04. Destroyer (feat. Carla Kihlstedt)
05. Wretched Valley
06. Silver
07. Leave No Wounds
08. Death's Head (feat. Jarboe)
09. Wasteland (feat. Kris Force, Matthias Bossi and Nerissa Campbell)

The song "Missing", featuring Kim Thayil, can be streamed at Stereogum.com.

Commented frontman Josh Graham, "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 nine 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. As we felt the music was shifting directions, we started to think about the guest musicians and Kim immediately came to mind. It just seemed to be right, and Kim agreed. We recorded demos and sent them to Kim about a month prior to the recording. After talking about the approach, we agreed that Kim should just to anything he wanted. Over the course of a couple of days in the studio in Seattle, he sent us the tracks and the rest is history."

A STORM OF LIGHT frontman Josh Graham is a jack of all trades. Whether he is handling visuals for NEUROSIS, doing artwork for SOUNDGARDEN's latest album, doing music videos for THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, UNDEROATH, CHIODOS and more or focusing in on his own musical endeavors with A STORM OF LIGHT, the man is quite busy.

A STORM OF LIGHT is:

Josh Graham (Vocals/Guitar/Keyboards)
Domenic Seita (Bass/Backing Vocals)
Billy Graves (Drums/Percussion)
Joel Hamilton (Modular Synths/Wurlitzer)

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