Beyond Twilight biography (http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2226)
Hailing from Hosens, Denmark, BEYOND TWILIGHT was the mind child of Finn ZIERLER (keyboards), who wished to resurrect its previous incarnation, TWILIGHT as a Progressive metal band. TWILIGHT, a melodic/power metal quintet had originally been conceived in 1990 gaining some attention when its debut release "Eye for an Eye" sold 25.000 copies. After it's follow up "The Edge", they disbanded, however in 1999, ZIERLER, having pursued his own musical side projects, returned to the theme, founding BEYOND TWILIGHT. Although for continuity and marketing purposes, the new band carried an almost identical logo and the symbol found on ZIERLER's earlier releases, musically the style changed to a form of dark, sensationalist, theatrical progressive metal with symphonic elements and harmonic vocals, for which the term 'Cinematic metal' was coined by some critics.
ZIERLER returned to the studios in 2000, to commence work on the band's debut, "The Devil's Hall of Fame" (2001), having gathered around him an experienced group of musicians who were to form the bedrock of all three albums. Classically trained Swede, Anders Ericson KRAGH (guitars) is a product of the Stockholm Royal College of Music where he studied the baroque lute & theorbo, while guitarist Anders Devillian LINDGREN (bass), a friend and admirer of KRAGH's, switched to the instrument to join the band. Thomas FREDEN (drums), a session drummer and former TWILIGHT member, having studied drums at the 'Percussion Institute of Technology' in California, was added to the line-up which was completed by accomplished vocalist Jorn LANDE whose inimitable style and range provided arguably the most distinctive hallmark on the album. Already a veteran of three previous outfits (VAGABOND, MUNDANUS IMPERIUM, THE SNAKES), LANDE joined BEYOND TWILIGHT straight after recording ARK's seminal 2nd album "Burn The Sun", and during the writing stage for his own 2nd album, "Worldchanger", released the same year.
"The Devil's Hall of Fame" received early critical acclaim and as a consequence, the band was able to sign to German label Massacre Records, with whom they stayed for the duration of their three albums. An emotionally dark and disturbing Sci-Fi/ horror concept album, the central premise being what happens when an IT operator hacks into his own brain, unleashing the album's keyboard driven chaos of irregular beats, disharmonies and shifts in time signatures.
During the four intervening years between albums, a couple of line-up changes took place. Firstly, Jacob HANSEN (rhythm guitar), driving force behind INVOCATOR, was added to flush out the guitar sound, for the band's second album, "Section X" (2005). Afterwards, LANDE, who eventually left the band, having already formed MASTERMIND with Roland GRAPOW and Uli KUSCH (ex-HELLOWEEN), was replaced by the extrovert OUTWORLD frontman, American, Kelly Sundown CARPENTER, with much of the new material having already been written. "Section X", another dark, sinister Sci-Fi concept album, seemed a logical continuation from where "The Devil's Hall of Fame" left off; the premise here being about a scientist who discovers mind-mapping, and attempts to clone himself by transferring his thoughts and emotions to the 90% of the brain which is unused.
When CARPENTER decided to leave the band in 2005, Finn ZIERLER was put in touch with multi-instrumentalist Bjorn JANSSON through M-Productions, their mutual production company, to take over vocals for their third release, "For the Love of Art and the Making" (2006), which continued to expand the musical barriers, both in terms of originality and technical complexity. Their 38 minute work, divided into 43 mini-segments, mixes elements of classical composition with crunching metal rhythms which may be played either straight through, or on shuffle, yielding a different arrangement with each listen. Soon after its release however, JANSSON left, leaving Finn ZIERLER with the unenviable prospect of looking for a fourth vocalist in four albums. Having previously written on their own website quite adamantly that other bands might split up, but BEYOND TWILIGHT would stay intact, the band slipped quietly into a long hiatus. Indeed, Wikipedia still lists the other five as 'Current Members' and one hopes for a future resurrection.
Pinpointing exact stylistic comparisons with other progressive metal bands isn't straight forward, and the band has said of themselves: "Some call our music Cinematic Metal, some call it Progressive Metal; you can't really compare BEYOND TWILIGHT to any other band. You can't put the music in a box no matter how much you would like to, so just forget about it. BEYOND TWILIGHT have always had their own style and sound; we'll always stay true to our music". Ultimately however, they should be seen as an important band within the context of the Scandinavian Progressive Metal resurgence from the turn of the millennium, and should therefore be wholeheartedly recommended to fans of CONCEPTION, PAIN OF SALVATION, ARK, MASTERPLAN, ANUBIS GATE and PAGAN'S MIND among many others.
Studio Albums: "The Devil's Hall of Fame" (2001), "Section X" (2005), "For the Love of Art & the Making" (2006)
Final Line-up Members:
Finn ZIERLER: Keyboards
Bjorn JANSSON: Vocals
Anders Ericson KRAGH: Lead guitar
Jacob HANSEN: Rhythm guitar
Anders LINDGREN: Bass guitar
Thomas FREDEN: Drums & percussion
Biography by Jared
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