Twilight of the Gods

Hmm, What happens when a bunch of black metal guys get together to make a straight up heavy metal record?

This apparently!



I quite like it, enough to check out the album at least.  

If you like that, check out I - Between Two Worlds.

mc666 wrote:

If you like that, check out I - Between Two Worlds.

Seconded. I am not big into black metal, but Immortal is one band I can definitely listen to.

And the I record, along with Demonaz's "March of the Norse", definitely give you a good dose of black-ish metal spliced with rock n' roll and straight forward heavy metal.

I will check out Twilight of the Gods.

I thought this would be about the Helloween song of the same name (which I love), but the actuality is a pleasant surprise.  This sounds pretty good.  

metalheaded wrote:

I thought this would be about the Helloween song of the same name (which I love), but the actuality is a pleasant surprise.  This sounds pretty good.  

They are called Twilight of the Gods after the Bathory album, not the Helloween song. These guys originally got together to do a tribute show to Bathory but decided to write some stuff together too more in an early 80's metal style and this is the result.

Is this a supergroup? Are the guys all in black metal bands, or was it just the original idea you mentioned where some guys who wanted to do the Bathory tribute thing got together to do it, but were not in bands already?

From Encyclopeadia Metallum:

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Frode Glesnes  Bass (2010-present)  
See also: Battered, Einherjer, ex-Beelzebub

Nick Barker  Drums (2010-present)  
See also: Ancient, Lock Up, Brujeria (live), Noctis Imperium (live), ex-Monolith, ex-Catalepsy, United Forces, ex-Atrocity, ex-Cradle of Filth, ex-Dimmu Borgir, ex-Leaves' Eyes, ex-Sadistic Intent, ex-Anaal Nathrakh (live), ex-Benediction (live), ex-Borknagar (live), ex-Cancer (live), ex-Cerebral Fix (live), ex-Criminal (live), ex-Exodus (live), ex-God Seed (live), ex-Gorgoroth (live), ex-Nightrage (live), ex-Testament (live), ex-Driven by Suffering  

Patrik Lindgren  Guitars (2010-present)  
See also: Thyrfing, ex-Pantheon

Rune Eriksen  Guitars (2010-present)  
See also: Aura Noir, Nader Sadek, ex-Ava Inferi, ex-In Silence, ex-Testimony, ex-Mezzerschmitt, ex-Mayhem

Alan Averill  Vocals (2010-present)  
See also: Blood Revolt, Dread Sovereign, Plagued, Primordial, ex-Perdition, ex-Void of Silence

and a review:

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Frode Glesnes of Einherjer on bass; Nick Barker, formerly of Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir and just about every other band imaginable in the live setting, on drums; Patrik Lindgren of Thyrfing on guitars; Rune “Blasphemer” Eriksen of Aura Noir and Mayhem on guitars; and Alan Averill of Primordial on vocals.

These guys kick ass! I'm some what biased since I'm a a huge Primordial fan.I'm also looking forward to the Dread Sovereign release.

cruedevil71 wrote:

These guys kick ass! I'm some what biased since I'm a a huge Primordial fan.I'm also looking forward to the Dread Sovereign release.

x 2 It was the Alan Averill connection that made me check them out.

I've had this for awhile now. Great disc of traditional metal!!!