SHINING

Release Year: 2013
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: depressive misanthropic suicidal black metal

first released on his own label, 2000's Kvarforth's longplay debut, a catalyst of nowadays' suicidal depressive black metal movement, was a consequence of desperate misanthropic teen gathering, unwilling to follow already paved treads of the genre: at the moment of entering the studio the frontman had sixteen years of age, but altogether they managed to pull off a much promising set of six nihilistic, utterly detrimental numbers, and scored to bring into Abyss studio none other but Andreas Classen, a cult singer of Bethlehem for shared vocal duties - the band that primarily and firmly influenced Niklas to start with; recent French jewel case edition comes with Kvarforth's liner notes and Bethlehem Vargtimmen cover as a hidden track