SHINING

Release Year: 2024
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: destructive suicidal depressive black metal

before entering the studio to record Redefining Darkness full-length, Shining spent a month in Finnish capital in 2011, seeking to refine their music through bold experimentation and test new ideas alongside Yusaf Parvez [Dødheimsgard], who also contributed to certain creative decisions, while demo versions became an aural chronicle of this important stage in their evolution, imbued with organic spontaneity and elusive sense of unease; legendary recordings continued to haunt Kvarforth for years, as he repeatedly claimed that in many respects they surpassed the final album versions, ultimately leading to a decision to release this wild creative moment, freed from the constraints of conventional studio control, as a special release, revealing how a boundary-pushing band became something more dangerous and unpredictable; Swedish jewel case edition is limited to 500 units