SHINING

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: expressive desperate suicidal black metal

after five-year hiatus, radical reshuffling finally brought this eleventh Shining opus, marked by new faces, label partner and an album simply bearing the band's name, on which Kvarforth, after a prolonged creative pause, picked up the guitar again and wrote all the material in just a few days; six tracks retain trademark darkness of suicidal black metal, yet sound considerably heavier and richer, juxtaposing bleak guitar melodies against sudden bursts of aggression, while constant layers of keyboards lend these compositions additional depth, space and theatricality, with the frontman's vocals becoming even more desperate and expressive in places, highlighting topics of death and the unknown while establishing a new, yet recognizably depressive sound for the band; Austrian three panel digipak edition comes with sixteen page booklet