Shining (Sweden)

Status: Active

Year of creation: 1996

Genre: Black Metal/Depressive Black Metal

Lyrical themes: Suicide/Depression (early), Negativity, Life (now)

Current label: Spinefarm Records

Shining supposedly disbanded in August 2004 and reformed at the end of that year. Shining's box set, "The Black Era", was never released. Not to be confused with the Avant-Garde/Jazz/Black Metal band Shining from Norway.

I really enjoyed the last album even if "V" is still my favourite

My favourite album from them is II - Livets Ändhållplats.
Only thing that I really don't like about this band (Niklas to be precise) is that they tend to do some gay shit on the stage. (Niklas grabing dicks of other band members and making out with them)

In Serbia people are really against gay people (including myself) and when they tried to make their parade this is what happened - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgn--3QwpoE&feature=related
(youtube deleted many videos because of graphic violence)

Sexual orientation and political groups don't interest me at all, only the music has importance for me...

Don't get me wrong, I love this band. That is just a little thing that annoys me.

What do you think of their new album and their first official video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSNLnDH6tjA

I said it in my subject I found the new album really good, less black metal and more "cold rock" with the usual guitar solos... The piano track (which is a cover!) is very good and the video clip... well, quite good even if I don't really care ! Shining is a great black metal band who managed to evolve over the records!

The new album is my least favorite, but it does have few catchy melodies and riffs.
I expected more brutal video from them so I was kinnda disappointed.

Despite their depressive side, it's important to remind that Shining is a very melodic band with a lot of melodic guitar solos !

Amazing band, I love all albums from them.

Abyssos a écrit:

Sexual orientation and political groups don't interest me at all, only the music has importance for me...

Agree.

CrippledChild a écrit:

My favourite album from them is II - Livets Ändhållplats.
Only thing that I really don't like about this band (Niklas to be precise) is that they tend to do some gay shit on the stage. (Niklas grabing dicks of other band members and making out with them)

In Serbia people are really against gay people (including myself) and when they tried to make their parade this is what happened - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgn--3QwpoE&feature=related
(youtube deleted many videos because of graphic violence)

I had a sort of friend from Serbia who already told me the same kind of things about gay people. About the parade and all, exactly the same.

First, I saw Shining on stage, that was a great show. They did not do that btw.

Second, gay people exist. This is a fact. To be against is a non-sense. It's like being against gravity, wind, rain, or against people who don't like potatoes and so on...
The most annoying is that you seems to be proud of it, claiming it, posting this stupid video which is absolutely unrelated btw. Who fucking care srsly ?

I'm not looking for a debate at all. But the off-topic was already done, so I also wanted to state about that.

With over 96,000 views on YouTube for SHINING’s first ever music video in just over three months of its release , the band have today announced that they will start work on a second video in October of this year. The video, for the track "Tillsammans Är Vi Allt" from SHINING’s seventh full length album “VII / Född Förlorare”, will be filmed both during a live concert and in a studio setting. Martin Strandberg, who directed the band's first video, "Förtvivlan Min Arvedel", will once again be directing, together with SHINING founder and front man Niklas Kvarforth. Production will be handled by Jussi Hyttinen of FLC415. The live footage will be filmed at a SHINING concert at the Club Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland, on the 5th October, when the band will end the evening by playing "Tillsammans Är Vi Allt" several times in order for it to be filmed.

1. People should be allowed to love whoever they want be it the same or opposite sex or aliens

2. VII: Född Förlorare is among my top albums of 2011

3. xD