Twin Serpent True Norwegian Blackgrass

“Weird, rowdy and just a little bit black metal” – TWIN SERPENT’s sophomore album is here! LP & CD available at Svart's webstore:
www.svartrecords.com/en/product/twin-serpent-true-norwegian-blackgrass/14218
Norway's most country-punk-bluegrass-black metal band Twin Serpent's sophomore album True Norwegian Blackgrass is out now via Svart Records. The band is hyped on the new album and explains the backgrounds of its focus track Freak Flag.
"Yeehaw, put your pit boots on for some trainbeat galore! Freak Flag is definitely closest to any colour of grass on the album. A flagship for True Norwegian Blackgrass. Welcome to the dark corners of the internjet! This cow punk rager deals with the normalization of the porn industry and how it changed us as humans. Written in the perspective of a sentient divine entity of the web, paralleling the human experience of being defiled by its dark side. Originally written for the band Barren Womb, Silvola sings honestly about the sexual drive created by an unscrupulous industry and a distorted gender ideal. We wish to give a shout out and support all our trans gender, LGBTQ+ friends out there! We love you, fly your freak flag high!"
Facilitating country influences and the energy of punk , Twin Serpent is a noisy but cute outsider band that manages to blur genre boundaries. Inspired by the likes of The Taxpayers and 16 Horsepower, this crust-country band applies lo-fi black metal aesthetics without having to bathe in blood. Songs about love, betrayal and defiance are delivered with acoustic to amp-wall dynamics, duelling vocal harmonies, shrieking solos and distorted banjos.
The debut album Feels Like Heaven, North Of Hell (2022, Loyal Blood Records) was described by the press as genre-defying and compared to bands like GY!BE and Tom Waits. The sophomore TRUE NORWEGIAN BLACKGRASS turns the volume to twelve and the trainbeat races down the tracks at a derailing speed. Covering topics on windmill resistance, porn industry and post-Trump America accompanied by playful country punk with a twinkle in the eye, laced with cosmic and occult undertones.
“We’re super happy to finally unbox our sophomore weirdo rocker! And we’re specially stoked to do so on the amazing Svart Records! This particularly hits home with Timo who was born in Finland. There’s even a song in Finnish on the album, which came out great! The artwork is amazing and everything is there for a reason. We recorded it during the year of the serpent at Piir Studio, just a 5-minute walk from our home in Svartlamon, Trondheim, NO. Vebjørn Svanberg Numme aka the wizard technician did an amazing job capturing the essence of the Twins during a hot summer week. 12 songs about love, betrayal and black holes with country licks, rock’n’roll kicks and heaps of punk attitude is the result and we’re super proud to present the first tease from it! We’ve kept things close to home as our resident artist Hanna and designer Tony did the cover art! It’s weird, rowdy and just a little bit black metal.”
Twin Serpent goes hard with in-your-face attitude and fits in barn dances as well as punk festivals!