EAGLE TWIN is two beasts, operating in a spectrum of duality. Eagle Twin is finesse and power. Eagle Twin combines the power of the riff with the freeness of jazz. Eagle Twin is the serpent and the crow. Eagle Twin is Gentry Densley and Tyler Smith.” – Slug Mag
A two headed eagle with octopus tentacles. 2 men sound as 20. Tyler Smith (carpenter/handyman/drummer) is very good at hitting things really hard. Gentry Densley (jail-librarian/baritone-guitarist/vocal) multitasks, playing stringed instruments he builds into something not quite guitar or bass but both simultaneously, all through a wall of massive tube amps. The two sound as one as they sound together with the language of the riff and a love of all things heavy. It’s doom blues roots rock veering into a psych prog sludge all backing a new mythology of epic proportions from the high desert climbs of Utah.
Formed in 2007, EAGLE TWIN is a heavy doom duo comprised of guitarist/vocalist Gentry Densley of Ascend and post-hardcore/jazz/doom icons Iceburn and drummer Tyler Smith, formerly of math/prog-core band Form Of Rocket. Following a cult split 7″ with Night Terror in 2009, the band joined with Southern Lord for the release of their debut LP, The Unkindness Of Crows. Over the next two years Eagle Twin toured alongside Earth, Sunn O))), Pelican, The Accüsed, and more, including touring and playing festivals all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and all over the US. A split LP with UK-based Pombagira would follow in 2010, followed by their second LP, The Feather Tipped The Serpent’s Scale, released in 2012.
“One of the most striking aspects of Eagle Twin’s debut was the lyrical content, rife with symbolism and largely inspired by poet Ted Hughes’ Crow. On the album’s final track, Densley’s throat delivers the tale of crows flying into the sun, being burnt and falling to the ground as snakes. This is where The Feather Tipped the Serpent’s Scale picks up, focusing on the mythological and symbolic incarnations of the snake.” As the snake circles in on itself and grows horns, Eagle Twin set the scene for their third album. Something to behold, as a creature with heavy hooves pounding the earth as antlers of lighting electrify the air.
A limited cassette release of Live In Atlantis in 2014 filled the drought before the epic storm that was their third LP, The Thundering Heard (Songs Of Hoof And Horn) released in 2018. After a bit of a hibernation assisted by a global pandemic and focus on other projects like Iceburn’s Asclepius, they are unleashing a split 12” LP on the Albuquerque based label Desert Records with Utah’s symphonic doom darlings, The Otolith (Ex-Subrosa) in Sept 2024: Legends of the Desert Vol. 4.
