Twilight (band)
| Twilight | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | United States |
| Genre (s) | Extreme metal , post metal |
| founding | 2005 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| Founding members | |
Electric bass, vocals |
Neil "N. Imperial “Jameson |
Electric guitar, electric bass, vocals |
Blake "Azentrius" Judd |
Drums, electric guitar, electric bass, synthesizer |
Jef Stuart "Wrest" Whitehead |
| Last occupation | |
Electric bass, vocals |
Neil "N. Imperial “Jameson |
Drums, electric guitar, electric bass, synthesizer |
Jef Stuart "Wrest" Whitehead |
Electric guitar, synthesizer |
Sanford Parker |
Electric guitar |
Thurston Moore |
| Live and session members | |
Electric guitar, synthesizer, vocals |
Scott "Malefic" Conner |
Electric guitar, vocals |
Aaron Turner |
Electric guitar, vocals |
Tim "Hildolf" Lehi |
Electric guitar |
Stavros Giannopolous |
Drums |
Dave Witte |
Electric guitar, synthesizer |
Sanford Parker |
singing |
Robert Lowe |
Twilight was an American extreme metal band founded in 2005 and disbanded in 2014 . The band was considered a supergroup of the American metal underground. The band, which never appeared live, played with different studio musicians on each release.
history
Twilight was founded in 2005 by Neil "N. Imperial "Jameson, Jef Stuart" Wrest "Whitehead and Blake" Azentrius "Judd founded. All three musicians were previously known for mostly one-man projects in the Black and Extreme Metal genre. Judd played in the black metal band Ezurate and already had his extreme metal project Nachtmystium , Whitehead the black metal project Leviathan and Jameson the extreme metal project Krieg . The musicians supported each other with split releases and exchanged information via tape trading . This is how the contact with Scott "Malefic" Conner came about, whose extreme metal project Xasthur in 2004 brought out a split release with Judd's Nachtmystium. Judd also played in Jameson's project War from 2002 to 2006 as a bassist and guitarist. Judd came up with the idea of starting a band project together. With Tim "Hildof" Lehi ( Draugar ) the line-up for the self-described first studio album, which was released in 2005, was completed. For the recordings of the second studio album, Lehi and Conner were replaced by post-metal musicians Aaron Turner from Isis and Old Man Gloom and Stavros Giannopoulos from The Atlas Moth . The 2010 album Monument to Time End marked both of them as guests, with the booklet pointing out that the trinity of Jameson, Whitehead and Judd "is and always will be". Despite this positioning, there was a rift among the musicians, which Jameson attributed in particular to Judd's drug use and selfishness. Jameson later relativized the statement about the band's trinity, adding that Judd always looked down on him.
Judd was formally involved in the recordings for the third album, but in fact contributed nothing to the recordings and was no longer listed as a member of the band. Instead, Jameson and Whitehead recorded the album after years of recording with Giannopoulos, Sanford Parker from Minsk and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth . Despite the popularity of the musicians involved, who got involved in the project over the years, Jameson rejected the term supergroup as a marketing term. With the end of the III: Beneath Trident's Tomb recordings , Whitehead and Jameson also ended the Twilight project. Jameson also cited the falling out with Judd as an important reason for the band's end.
Content and ideology
According to Jameson, the band concept is intended as an expression of absolute negativity and dissatisfaction, so the lyrics are consistently nihilistic and pessimistic . Jameson describes, referring to various conflicts of the band members with the law, as well as to various private problems of the band members as a transcendental destiny.
"It's probably because we seem to collect negative energy which orbits us and because we're basically all anti-social fuckups, these things sort of follow us. This scene isn't full of normal, well-adjusted people [. I] ts core ethos is being poisoned from the roots. "
“It's probably because we are collecting the negative energy around us and basically we're all anti-social assholes, things like that seem to haunt us. The scene isn't full of normal, well-adjusted people. The basic ethic was poisoned from the start. "
As a basic ethos, Jameson describes the negativity in all aspects of life, which ranges from escape from reality to Satanism .
style
The band presented a different style with each album. The debut album was stylistically based on Scandinavian Black Metal . The second album Monument to Time End , which was created with the participation of post-metal musicians Aaron Turner and Stavros Giannopolous, was described as more organic and influenced by post-metal and post-rock . The third album III: Beneath Trident's Tomb , however, an audible influence of Thurston Moore is attested. Jameson contributed most of the lyrics to III: Beneath Trident's Tomb , but wrote no music, which led to a further change in the sound. The album is more experimental and gives a mechanical atmosphere and reminds of Godflesh . The influence of Thurston Moore is said to have traces of guitar noise and power electronics , which give the album a tonal theme.
Discography
- 2005: Twilight (album, Total Holocaust Records )
- 2010: Monument to Time End (album, Southern Lord )
- 2014: III: Beneath Trident's Tomb (Album, Century Media )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f BadWolf: AN NCS INTERVIEW: NEILL JAMESON (IMPERIAL) OF TWILIGHT, WAR. No Clean Singing, March 4, 2014, accessed August 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Twilight: Twilight . Total Holocaust Records, 2005.
- ↑ Twilight: Monument to Time End . Southern Lord, 2010.
- ↑ a b Destruction Rituals - A Conversation With Neill Jameson of Krieg and Twilight. (No longer available online.) Steel for Brains, 2014, archived from the original on April 1, 2015 ; accessed on August 28, 2014 . 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.
- ^ A b Bryer "Salt Licker" Wharton: A Taste of Salt - Interview with Twilight's Neil Jameson. (No longer available online.) Burning Salts, March 27, 2014, archived from the original on April 15, 2015 ; accessed on August 28, 2014 . 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.
