It had been a while since we last heard from Stevie Floyd, guitarist/vocalist for Dark Castle, whose last album was 2011’s underappreciated Surrender to all Life Beyond Form (review here). After releasing the Life two-track full-length with Taurus last July, Floyd finds herself now teamed with Erik Moggridge aka Aerial Ruin for a split/collaboration that finds the two players guesting on each other’s material and featuring solo material in a folkish vein. Not necessarily new territory for Moggridge, whose work was vehemently recommended by Dylan Desmond of Bell Witch/Samothrace last year, but it should be interesting to hear what Floyd can bring to that style and if the experimental edge that showed up on the last Dark Castle rears its head here as well.

The PR wire never takes a holiday:

STEVIE FLOYD: Dark Castle/Taurus Priestess To Release Split With AERIAL RUIN

Dark Castle/Taurus priestess STEVIE FLOYD and AERIAL RUIN, the gloom-trodden solo outfit featuring former Old Grandad/ Drift Of A Curse/Epidemic mastermind Erik Moggridge, recently joined creative forces for an eclectic split release.

A wholly absorbing, folk-centric offering, the collaboration finds Floyd and Moggridge posing as guest vocalists on select songs off their separate solo recordings with an additional guest appearance from Leviathan/Lurker of Chalice sorcerer Wrest. At once moody, atmospheric, and psychologically crushing, the self-released recording delivers twelve decaying hymns that will be available on vinyl/free download with handmade artwork by Floyd via their official BandCamp Pages.

Elaborates Floyd: “This was something very raw and honest for me to record myself in solitude. Aerial Ruin is a huge inspiration for me, and I feel so blessed to have shared a record together.”

Preorders are currently available via http://StevieFloyd.Bandcamp.com and http://www.AerialRuin.BandCamp.com.

Aerial Ruin/Stevie Floyd Track Listing:
1. Stevie Floyd-you scathed the sun
2. Stevie Floyd feat. Aerial Ruin-failure
3. Stevie Floyd feat. Wrest-wrest in natur
4. Stevie Floyd-dissapear
5. Stevie Floyd-ungod reappear
6. Stevie Floyd feat. Aerial Ruin-this has gone
7. Aerial Ruin-where the shadow stands
8. Aerial Ruin-november
9. Aerial Ruin feat. Stevie Floyd-less than decay
10. Aerial Ruin-blood for fall
11. Aerial Ruin feat. Stevie Floyd-ascending
12. Aerial Ruin-the only road

http://StevieFloyd.Bandcamp.com
http://AerialRuin.BandCamp.com

Aerial Ruin, “The Twist in the Chain”