There are at least twelve bands called Twilight around the world. Not to mention a certain teenage movie polluting the vampire myth to add further confusion. However, this particular Twilight rises above all that effortlessly.

Originally created in 2004 by a few US black metal luminaries, the project has recently awoken from the tomb where it had laid since 2005’s self-titled debut, with new blood coursing through its blackened veins – it’s a veritable Who’s Who of American extreme metal.

“It’s not a black metal record and I don’t want to call it post-metal or post-something because it’s not that either – there’s so much on there, it’s such a huge album, that it’s really difficult to say” they tell us of their sophomore effort, Monument To Time End.

Released recently on Southern Lord, the record sees original members Blake Judd (Nachtmystium), Imperial (Krieg) and Wrest (Leviathan/Lurker Of Chalice) now joined by Stavros Giannopoulos (The Atlas Moth), Sanford Parker (Minsk) and Aaron Turner (Isis), who have helped broaden the horizons of the project into something way beyond black metal.

Read the full interview with Twilight in Rock-A-Rolla issue 26 ! Available to order here