REMEMBER TWILIGHT: Kammermusik-Core CD. RARE fuse of Metal, Punk rock, soft classical chamber music. CHECK audio

Description

Folk Metal
Lyrical themes: Philosophical Topics
Origin: Germany (Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg)
7 SONGS

Tracklist:
1. Mephisto
2. Die Feder
3. K.O.
4. An meinem Tod
5. Liebliche Musik (1999)
6. Siren (1999)
7. Ruhiges Lied (Live bei Manus House-Party 2001)

Tracklist:
. 1 Mephisto
. 2 The spring
. 3 KO
. 4 On my death
. 5 Lovely Music (1999)
. 6 Siren (1999)
. 7 Quiet Song (Live at Manus House Party 2001)
28:58min.CD

German band Remember Twilight take the concept of metal plus classical instruments beyond the medieval metal cliche. Featuring oboe and two violins, they fuse metal and punk rock influences with soft classical chamber music, creating “chamber music core”, as they call it. On top of that, hardcore-style shoutings with German lyrics – often on philosophical topics – are added in for a wild musical ride.

Sometimes bands set out to do something and then they end up with something completely different from what they intended, but the result is still great, or even better. The German band Remember Twilight’s new CD is called Kammermusik-Core. Kammermusik is the German word for Chamber Music, and the band’s weird constellation of 3 rock musicians (guitar, bass and drums) and 3 classical musicians (2 violins and bassoon) tries to aim for a hybrid classical hard rock style. Thank the Dear Lord Almighty they fail at that, because there are already too many bands who jump on that trendwagon.

Remember Twilight’s use of German lyrics move them very close to new folk metal bands like Skyclad, Subway To Sally and In Extremo, just that RT are less metal and therefore more… dare I say punk? Anyway, it is something very unique. There are 4 new songs on the CD: Mephisto and An meinem Tod are mid tempo songs, Die Feder and K.O. are faster selections. Then there are 2 songs from last year’s demo tape plus one live song, in very good quality by the way.

The production is very raw, and one might even hint at a certain amount of amateurism, but that’s what gives charm to this music. The compositions are all very convincing, the vocals very emotional, the instrumentation totally original. If the 3 old songs were as close to perfection as the 4 new ones, I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second to deal out a maximum rating, but this way, it will “only” be a high 9.