SHINING

Release Year: 2008
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: destructive suicidal depressive black metal

rebellious and unpredictable, yet focused and determined on his musical path, Niklas Kvarforth starts a new era of highly controversial project with the fifth full-length album [2007], considered his magnum opus by most - the Swedes have freed these six compositions from typical, utterly suicidal depressive black metal framework with much cleaner production and external aesthetics: it is tagged as the soundtrack to a psychological disintegration, a monument of beauty in blackness and ghostly shades with sublime atmospheric moments, still very ugly in its own mental way, where rich guitar textures and dramatic transitions give music greater dynamism, allowing bleak melodies to unfold to their full potential, while Låt Oss Ta Allt Från Varandra has turned into the most chilling and engaging composition in their entire career so far; exclusive picture disk edition with an outer sleeve is limited to 495 units - rare collectors' item!