Twilight is an American black metal supergroup formed in 2005 and originally commissioned by Swedish underground label Total Holocaust Records. Band members belong to well known bands, including Xasthur, Leviathan, Krieg, Isis, Nachtmystium, Draugar, Minsk, The Atlas Moth, and Sonic Youth.
Group members of the group have included "Azentrius" (real name Blake Judd of Nachtmystium), "Hildolf" (real name Tim Lehi), "Imperial" (real name Neill Jameson), "Malefic" (real name Scott Conner) and "Wrest" (real name Jef Whitehead).
History
Twilight has released three albums. They have not performed live. They have been described as a "supergroup" on the American black metal underground.Gunnar Sauermann: US Black Metal. Zehn essenzielle USBM-Alben als Einstiegsdroge. In: Metal Hammer, August 2007, p. 89 The band members have played with Draugar, Krieg, Leviathan, Nachtmystium and Xasthur. The first album was "recorded on four-track cassettes sent back and forth through the mail by the five members", and "captures the myriad sonic idiosyncrasies of the individual players, from Xasthur’s charred synth ambience and Leviathan’s expert d-drum patterns to Draugar’s cavernous vocals and Nachtmystium’s ruthless guitar torture".https://web.archive.org/web/20080209225614/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jan2006/twilight.aspx Metal Hammer journalist Gunnar Sauermann listed Twilight as an essential US black metal album.
An announcement was made that Twilight disbanded. Battle Kommand Records had stated that writing for a second album had begun in 2006,https://web.archive.org/web/20061020050418/http://www.battlekommand.com/twilight/twilight.html and that recordings started in the Spring of 2007, but no release date was announced. Malefic left the band in 2007, supposedly replaced with Aaron Turner of Isis and Old Man Gloom.
In 2009, Twilight reformed with original members Blake Judd (without the "Azentrius" alias), Imperial (then called "N. Imperial"), and Wrest (referred to as "W."), joined by new members Sanford Parker, Aaron Turner, and Stavros Giannopolous, along with guest Robert Lowe of Lichens, to record the album Monument to Time End, released in 2010 by Southern Lord Records.
On August 1, 2012, it was announced that Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth would join the band.
In November, 2013, the band finished recording its final studio album, III: Beneath Trident's Tomb. It was released on 18 March 2014.
Musical style According to Sauermann, the members are egocentric and assert themselves at diverse points in the recordings, leading to influences from black, thrash and death metal appearing through a "washed-out" production, which hides "great melodies, bare hate and leaden solitude".
Members Last-known Line-up Wrest (Jef Whitehead) – drums, guitar, bass, synthesizer and E-bow (Leviathan, Lurker Of Chalice) Imperial (Neill Jameson) – vocals and bass (Krieg, N.I.L.) Sanford Parker – guitars, synths, production (Minsk, Nachtmystium, Buried At Sea) Stavros Giannopolous – guitars (The Atlas Moth) Thurston Moore – guitar (Sonic Youth, Chelsea Light Moving)
Former Hildolf (Tim Lehi) – Vocals, guitar (Draugar, Eerie) (2005-2007) Malefic (Scott Conner) – guitar, synthesizer and vocals (also see: Xasthur) (2005-2008) Blake Judd (formerly known as Azentrius) – guitar, bass, and vocals (Nachtmystium, Hate Meditation) (2005-2012) Aaron Turner – guitar and vocals (Isis, Old Man Gloom, House of Low Culture, Lotus Eaters, Jodis) (2007-2008)
Discography Twilight (2005) Monument to Time End (2010) III: Beneath Trident's Tomb (2014) Trident Death Rattle (EP) (2018)
References
External links Twilight Bandpage on Southern Lord Records [ Twilight] on AllMusic