### Twilight Of The Gods: Fire on the mountain

#### 27/10/13 || sincan

Twilight Of The Gods consists of more or less well known members of the metal community, who first teamed up as a Bathory tribute band but now turned out to become more than just a tribute band by releasing a first record of their own. When a first track was released I was curious, mostly since Alan from Primordial is handling the vocals, but I wasn’t really hooked back then actually. But I guess that has changed by now!

This album is a solid heavy metal journey with references in many sub genres and most evident is doom, thrash and NWOBHM. But it is with the straight forward heavy metal and doom metal Twilight Of The Gods is at their best I would say.

The solid album opener, “Destiny forged in blood”, with its distinct and phenomenal bass lines, will not leave many metal fans with a sloppy cock that’s for sure. However something with the vocal delivery in the first sentence bothers me a bit, I don’t know if it is a weird timing or if Alan tries to say too many words during little time. But after that there are not much negative things to say about the vocals.

The next track, Children of Cain, is the one which I rank as the highlight of this album. This is for sure one epic heavy metal/doom show which just gets better and better for each listen. The last part of the track is the strongest and is full of emotions and can easily leave a rock with goose bumps. Further I guess “getting better and better for each listen” is one of the themes with this album to be honest.

Next up is the title track which also is one of the highlights and at the same time works as a nice history lecture. Just listen to the first sentences, if each history class was this good I would still disguise myself as a kid and go there.

Then something happens, the music quits being as good as previous mentioned tracks. “Preacher Man” has some “happy” thrash metal riffing and one of the most annoying lyric phrases since, I don’t know. I also smell some southern rock vibes here. However, after this one the album gets back on track with the rather pompous “Sword of Damocles”, but it is kind of hard to sing “neutron hammer” (I guess that’s what Alan sings) in a cool way I must say. The guitar solo in the end is actually very good in its primitive way.

Then the thrashing comes back and the music is less good and interesting in “The end of history” so now I act like it doesn’t exists and look at another direction for a while… Oh look there “At dawn we ride” appears and closes the album, leaving you with a rather satisfied feeling.

So to sum up this album I would say that it looks backwards in two ways, first musically but also lyrically so this is a good historical journey. It is also a grower where some tracks might seem kind of flat or uninspired but later turn up to be much better. This one seems to be one of the most original albums of the year, so far.

- Information
- Released: 2013
- Label: Season of Mist
- Website: www.twilightofthegods.eu
- Band
- Alan Averill: vocals
- Patrik Lindgren: guitars
- Rune Eriksen: guitars
- Frode Glesnes: bass
- Nick Barker: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Destiny forged in blood
- 02. Children of Cain
- 03. Fire on the mountain (1683)
- 04. Preacher man
- 05. Sword of Damocles
- 06. The end of history
- 07. At dawn we ride