[DEU] A STORM OF LIGHT ist die neue Band von JOSH GRAHAM (Ex-RED SPAROWES, und visual director bei NEUROSIS).

Verstärkt um Domenic Seita (Ex-TOMBS, Ex-ASEA) und Vincent Signorelli (Ex-SWANS, UNSANE).

Auf ihrem Debüt-Album erschaffen die drei einen düsteren Monolithen von einem Album, der kongenial von Grahams außergewöhnlichem Artwork untermalt wird.

Doch nicht nur das. Doch das ist noch nicht alles: nicht nur, Graham's Vocals setzen vor allem in lyrischer Hinsicht dieser Platte die Krone auf: tief inspiriert von der Prosa solcher Helden wie William Faulkner und Edgar Allan Poe liefert Graham Storytelling par excellence und erschafft so ein Gesamtkunstwerk, dessen Live-Umsetzung im Spätsommer im Vorprogramm von NEUROSIS zu einem Multimedia-Spektakel aufgebaut werden soll.

Ein Konzeptalbum von musikalischer Dichte und thematischer Finesse, wie man es selten erlebt! ...Our Silver Memories Fade....Apocalyptic metal band A STORM OF LIGHT have completed work on their new album, entitled "As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade." Formed by multi-faced artist/musician Josh Graham (Neurosis, ex-Red Sparowes/Battle Of Mice), A STORM OF LIGHT have become a whole new musical entity on its own merits, taking singer/guitarist Graham's experiences from his previous musical repertoire and finding its own unique voice through the vessel known as A STORM OF LIGHT.

With their third album at hand, not only is "As The Valley Of Death." A STORM OF LIGHT's heaviest and most dynamic release to date, but it is also A STORM OF LIGHT's most song-oriented and most musically inclined release to date.

While still maintaining certain elements referenced from their previous two releases, elements which ranged from moments of sludge/doom metal, ambient experimental, classic industrial, and post rock and metal respectively, "As The Valley Of Death." sees the band (rounded out by bassist Domenic Seita, drummer Billy Graves, and Joel Hamilton on synthesizers and production) focusing more on solid traditional song structures and foundations, ones found in genres such as rock (AC/DC), modern-day rock (Queens Of The Stone Age), and ultimately classic traditional metal, most notably the template laid down by Metallica.

And to top it all off, "As The Valley Of Death." sees a fair share of musician guest appearances likewise.

Most notably SOUNDGARDEN guitarist Kim Thayil lending his signature guitar shredding on the tracks 'Missing' and 'Black Wolves'.

Also appearing on "As The Valley Of Death." are Jarboe (ex-Swans), longtime ASOL collaborator Nerissa Campbell, Kris Force (Amber Asylum), Matthias Bossi (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum/The Book Of Knots), and Carla Kihlstedt (also of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum/The Book Of Knots).

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.' KERRANG - 3/4 review (19 Sept) "This is focused on song-craft and what unfolds is a majestically epic and intimidating soundscape.

A haunting, bleak and impressive record." UNCUT - 3/5 review (November issue) "You find in its low-end judder and epic portentousness a formidable excavation of deeper truths about the universe."