Beyond Twilight

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Beyond Twilight
General information
origin Horsens , Denmark
Genre (s) initially Power Metal , Progressive Metal , later Symphonic Metal
founding 1990 as Twilight,
renamed Beyond Twilight in 1999
Website www.beyondtwilight.dk
Founding members
Finn Zierler
Engbert is different
Micke Därth
Jan Strandh
Kim Mikkelsen
Tomas Fredén
Current occupation
Keyboard
 Finn Zierler
singing
 Björn Jansson (since 2006)
Lead guitar
 Anders Kragh Ericson (since 1996)
Rhythm guitar
 Jacob Hansen (since 2004)
bass
 Anders Devillian Lindgren (since 1996)
Drums
 Tomas Fredén
former members
singing
 Andreas Lagerin
singing
 Torben Vistisen
singing
 Jørn Lande (2000-2002)
singing
 Kelly Sundown Carpenter (2004-2005)

Beyond Twilight is a band founded by the Danish keyboardist Finn Zierler in 1990 under the name Twilight and switched from power and progressive metal to symphonic metal , which received its final name in 1999.

history

The Danish Horsens -based keyboardist Finn Zierler 1990 founded his metal band Twilight. It initially included the Swedes Anders Engbert (vocals), Jan Strandh (guitar) and Micke Därth (guitar) as well as Zierler's compatriots Kim Mikkelsen (bass) and Tomas Fredén (drums). The demo The Edge was created in 1992 with this line-up . In 1994 the single Sail Away and the accompanying album Eye for an Eye were released by Olaf Songs. Zierler was just 18 years old at the time. The album was produced by the renowned metal producer Tommy Hansen ( Helloween , Pretty Maids , Heavens Gate ).

In 1999 the renaming to Beyond Twilight and the publication of the demo recordings (plus bonus track ) overlapped , thus still bearing the shorter, but otherwise identical, lettering "Twilight". The change of name was accompanied by a reorganization of the group, in which, besides Zierler, only Tomas Fredén and for a short time Micke Därth remained. Until the new line-up was complete, Zierler is said to have withdrawn to the Sahara and the Atlas Mountains , where he is said to have composed his songs without instruments, in mere mental work. This uniqueness, distributed by the German label Massacre Records by laundry slip , was mentioned in almost every review (of all albums) and was only occasionally questioned. The album The Devil's Hall of Fame , recorded with musicians Jørn Lande (vocals), Anders Ericson (guitar), Anders Lindgren (bass) and Tomas Fredén (drums) and produced again by Hansen, was released on July 23, 2001. Zierler had the album Completely designed at the start of recording and only asked his singer Lande for a textual correction pass. After the release, Lande was willing to take part again on the next album, which Massacre Records had already planned due to the positive response. But then he was tempted by the offer to join Masterplan .

Four years passed before the next album Section X was released, because Zierler not only had to look for a new singer, but also wanted to integrate a second guitarist and, to make matters worse, suffered a shoulder fracture. He won the Texan Kelly Sundown Carpenter as a singer and the producer, Invocator boss Jacob Hansen, as rhythm guitarist . The promotion department of Massacre decided to pick up on the matter of the unusual composing environments and now report about an underwater stay, a zapping cell and living in dirty London side streets. In an interview with Metal Hammer , Zierler said that in order to come up with unusual text ideas, he preferred extreme situations to drug use . Not all ideas came from Zierler, complained Jørn Lande, because his former band boss had got hold of his preparatory work. Zierler denied the allegations.

At the end of April 2006, the third album, entitled For the Love of Art and the Making , went on sale. Since other singers had tried their hand at Beyond Twilight in the meantime, Björn Jansson joined the singer series. The various internet portals see differently whether he is currently part of the formation. For the Love of Art and the Making contains a single piece, which consists of 43 sections and, according to laut.de, is "at least conceptually" on a par with classical works.

style

  • Eye for an Eye : When it comes to the early work, one does not quite agree which style it should be assigned to, as the “Press Section” on the band's homepage shows. The website jesters-news.de suggests Eye for an Eye to Progressive Metal. The Ultimate Hard Rock Guide Vol I - Europe found the album to be very reminiscent of the music of Savatage .
  • The Edge : Stefan Glas from the underground-empire.com portal opted for “powerful, riffy Melodic Metal” for The Edge .
  • The Devil's Hall of Fame : Thorsten Pöttger identified alternating “hymnic” and “poisonous” vocals, “heavy guitar riffs à la Tony Iommi ”, “bombastic choirs”, “coherent keyboards” and a “rather crazy implemented um-time” in Eclipsed . These are the ingredients for an "epic" work "as if from a single source". Matthias Mineur from Metal Hammer found the flood of ideas offered as a listening effort . In Rock Hard , "Brother Cle" said the album was progressive, epic, but still "easy to digest". It sounds like Journey , Magnum and Marillion without the Schnulzen factor, be atmospheric like Candlemass or Solitude Aeturnus .
  • Section X : Michael Meyer, one of the rare unbelievers regarding the creation stories , writes on bloodchamber.de that it is difficult to listen to the album, but after a few attempts you won't let go of it. He saw a Queen resemblance in the "wacky" piano parts. According to Armin Schäfer from Metal Hammer , the album has a “musical character”. He also made a Queen resemblance, because of the polyphonic singing and the "bombastic choirs". His colleague Detlef Dengler wrote that it was “art that seemed artificial”. At the same time it is "an enormously intense, original, demanding Metal album", which does not even come close to The Devil's Hall of Fame . A “bombast metal album” that was “relatively catchy” despite its intricate structures, said Frank Albrecht in Rock Hard . Here and there he is reminded of Masterplan, Candlemass and Dream Theater .
  • For the Love of Art and the Making : Albrecht classified the album, which he initially described as "orchestral, pompous and progressive", as original overall, but as the "bulkiest" of the Beyond Twilight career to date. Eclipsed editor Thorsten Pöttger recognized a tendency to pathos in the work he consequently dubbed a “metal opera”. His view that it is “art for art's sake” coincides with Dengler's statement about the Section X album (“art that appears to be superimposed”). In his Metal Hammer review, Dengler reported an “insane effort” because each of the 43 sections consisted of over 500 individual tracks. The result would be “a lot of exciting, complex, progressive, classical-oriented, dynamic, intelligent”, but that doesn't mean the connection automatically has to be as successful as on the previous albums. Michael Edele, who works for laut.de, stated a combination of classic and metal . The result is more successful than Kamelot and Vanden Plas .

Discography

  • 1992: The Edge (as Twilight, demo)
  • 1994: Sail Away (as Twilight, single, olaf songs)
  • 1994: Eye for an Eye (as Twilight, Olaf songs)
  • 1999: The Edge (as Twilight, album release of the demo recordings)
  • 1999: Lurking Fantasia (demo)
  • 2001: The Devil's Hall of Fame (Massacre Records)
  • 2005: Section X (Massacre Records)
  • 2006: For the Love of Art and the Making (Massacre Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Volume - Biography. The History of Beyond Twilight. In: beyondtwilight.dk. See volume , accessed January 25, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c Beyond Twilight. Laut.de biography. In: laut.de. Retrieved January 25, 2015 .
  3. ^ A b Garry Sharpe-Young , Horst Odermatt & Friends: The Ultimate Hard Rock Guide Vol I - Europe . Bang Your Head Enterprises Ltd, 1997, p. 584 .
  4. ↑ a b Massacre Records (Ed.): Beyond Twilight. The Devil's Hall of Fame . From 2001 (laundry slip).
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Schäfer: Assassination attempt on the Minister of Culture. Jorn . In: Rock Hard . No. 176 , January 2002, p. 40 f .
  6. ↑ Master plan is the new combo of the fired ex-Helloween members […] In: Rock Hard . No. 178 , March 2002, News, p. 8 .
  7. ↑ a b c Armin Schäfer: Beyond Twilight. Deep sea diver . In: Metal Hammer . May 2005, p. 81 .
  8. ↑ Beyond Twilight. (No longer available online.) In: underground-empire.com. September 16, 2005, S. News , archived from the original on August 6, 2016 ; Retrieved January 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.underground-empire.com
  9. ^ Wolfgang Volk: Twilight - Eye for an Eye. In: jesters-news.de. February 19, 2001, accessed January 25, 2015 .
  10. ^ Stefan Glas: Twilight (DK) - The Edge. (No longer available online.) In: underground-empire.com. Archived from the original on August 6, 2016 ; Retrieved January 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.underground-empire.com
  11. ↑ T [horsten] P [öttger]: Beyond Twilight. The Devil's Hall of Fame . In: Eclipsed . From art rock to postmodernism. No. 37 , September 27, 2001, Platten Reviews, pp. 46 .
  12. ^ Matthias Mineur: Beyond Twilight. The Devil's Hall of Fame . In: Metal Hammer . August 2001, Reviews, p. 82 .
  13. ↑ Brother Cle: Beyond Twilight. The Devil's Hall of Fame . In: Rock Hard . No. 171 , August 2001, dynamite.
  14. ^ Michael Meyer: Review: Beyond Twilight - Section X. In: bloodchamber.de. March 14, 2005, accessed January 25, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Detlef Dengler: Beyond Twilight. Section X . In: Metal Hammer . May 2005, Reviews, p. 97 .
  16. ^ Frank Albrecht: Beyond Twilight. Section X . In: Rock Hard . No. 215 , April 2005, dynamite.
  17. ^ Frank Albrecht: Beyond Twilight. For the Love of Art and the Making . In: Rock Hard . No. 229 , June 2006.
  18. ↑ T [nests] P [öttger]: Beyond Twilight "For the Love or Art and the Making" . In: Eclipsed . Rock magazine. No. 82 , May 2006, CD Reviews, p. 45 .
  19. ↑ Detlef Dengler: Beyond Twilight. For the Love of Art and the Making . In: Metal Hammer . June 2006, Reviews, p. 103 .
  20. ↑ Michael Edele: Beyond Twilight. For the Love of Art and the Making. Breathtaking, even if you are into "shuffle". Review by Michael Edele. In: laut.de. Retrieved January 25, 2015 .