PORCUPINE TREE, OPETH Leaders Confirm New Side-Project
March 23, 2007, 17 years ago
PORCUPINE TREE mastermind Steven Wilson spoke to MTV.com about a number of topics including their forthcoming album, Fear Of A Blank Planet, which is due out through Atlantic Records in North America on April 24th and the 23rd in Europe via Roadrunner. Wilson also revealed more details around the secretive side-project with OPETH mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt, which should surface sometime in 2008.
"We've been talking about this literally since the day we met," Wilson explained. "The original idea was to collaborate together on something else, but since then both bands have been becoming more and more successful. We kind of got immersed in our own projects, and we've never really found the time to get together and follow through on what we'd discussed. In the meantime, the rumors have gotten around that we were planning to do something. Realistically, it is going to happen, but it won't happen until next year. We've written some songs, and that's about as far as we've got so far."I just hope it can live up to [people's] expectations," he continued. "I think there's always this sense that this whole idea of supergroups is sometimes one that can disappoint, because people always expect it's going to be Opeth plus Porcupine Tree, so it's going to be twice as good as either band on its own. I think it will be something a bit different, and I think it will be something good. I just hope the expectations aren't too enormous."
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