one of the most obscure bands on earth... passionate, dense, suffocationg, fullfilled by despair... their debut album is my favourite followed by The Eerie Cold...
what do you expect for their next? the chapter V is released this year...
Hello!
i have one question about Niklas "Kvarforth" Olsson!i dont know where i must ask this question!but i think you can answer this question!
so first of all i must say i love Niklass but i see this Pic in the internet!
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/30780175/Shining+Infernal+Damnation+Fest+London.jpg
this pic so strange for me!
now can you tell me niklas is a realy gay?(i must say i hate homosexuality)::cry:wall:
if not why he did this????
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sorry for my english
I don't think that he's a homosexual.. By the way I've seen in another picture Kvarforth was kissing Maniac (in their Skitliv live performance).. I've no idea about him whether he's gay or not, but in my opinion it's just a show; not always true..
I don't think he's gay. He's got a kid and wife/girlfriend.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal
Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
You who will come to the surface
From the flood that's overwhelmed us and drowned us all
Must think, when you speak of our weakness in times of darkness
That you've not had to face
"Nowdays Kvarforth is such a softy! he's marring his girlfriend in a church and converting to catholicism!
You can see him say all this in an interview from 'Contrabandcandy'! and you'll see just by looking into his eyes that he's a completely different guy... sucks really."
^ Someone has replied one of my comments on Youtube..
Anyone can confirm or deny it?
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We only kiss the turkey's bottom on special occasions..
Normally we might do it with chicken nugget..
I knew he was getting married, because he told me. Don't know if it was in a church, but seriously, who cares? I haven't seen the interview, but he seems like the person who goes against expectations anyway.
---- SLUDGE. DOOM. DEATH. Wait, what? "The reason I'm running for president is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen." - Barack Obama
I knew he was getting married, because he told me. Don't know if it was in a church, but seriously, who cares? I haven't seen the interview, but he seems like the person who goes against expectations anyway.
What else do you realllllly expect for most ''fans''? This whole thing makes me sick, I didn't watch my buddies die face down in the MUCK, so that these guys could criticize the lives of musicians while they're fingering their own assholes anyways.
Nice avatar by the way... damn. Already looking forward to new material from them!
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That rug really tied the room together, did it not?
Niklas and his lady lived at my place the autumn 2008 so he showed me their new music. What I can say is that the latest one and the one after, which isn't released yet I think, take a further step into more traditional heavy metal, still combined with the dark Shining-aura. Rather good music if you ask me.
I've listened through Shining's entire discography, and I must say it's pretty spectacular. Personally, I've taken a strong liking to their later discography ("IV" onward). Also, is it strange to say that the guitar solos from their later work have a death metal feel to them?
^ I've always found their later stuff to be full of cool, bluesy solos.
Say what you will about Kvarforth, but he and his band create some amazing music. I can't even count the number of times I've listened to Halmstad now. Every member of the band puts the perfect amount of melancholy into their performance that creates an experience that is not too simplistic and raw yet not too over produced and plastic at the same time. Their other albums are great experiences as well of course, but Halmstad is certainly something especially special.
Shining is great. Some call them the Opeth of black metal, and the indications of that are in their sound.
I think Enslaved is more of the Opeth of black metal... but that's just like, ugh, my opinion, man.
They played two new songs at the gig in Frankfurt. As far as I can tell one of them was ''Människa O'Avskyvärda Människa''. There were also some clear vocals in the second one, but I can't remember the title name.
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That rug really tied the room together, did it not?
What are they trying to do? Release an album a year? They are killing themselves! The latest one isn't even that good!
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In the name of forests; In the name of stars; In the name of all the seas; In the name of storms... Proud sons of ancient nation; Proud sons of sacred song in the wind; Proud sons behind a mirror of ice who told... Fathers of the icy age!!
Hahaha.. to be honest I love their earlier work. Nicklas is an amazing vocalist, one of the best in the genre. But the recent stuff have been so-so for me. Maybe because I hyped it up too much.
Halmstad and The Eerie Cold are their best, imo.
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In the name of forests; In the name of stars; In the name of all the seas; In the name of storms... Proud sons of ancient nation; Proud sons of sacred song in the wind; Proud sons behind a mirror of ice who told... Fathers of the icy age!!
Give me III - Angst, akajhfekajhgflaegflgfkas any day. Nobody ever seems to remember what an incredible, rich, atmospheric and DIRECT album that was. Not the proggy, confused and watered down dross that they/he put(s) out these days. Sorry but Halmstad for me is one of the most overrated pieces of music in modern metal history, solos don't belong on a depressive black metal album, pretty unpopular notion I know (in fact I don't know anyone who feels that way). Hey at least it has a rendition of Moonlight Sonata which I'll always approve of. For me Shining ended with IV, which was still a very good album (Eradication of the Condition is sweet).
This is Shining at their best, I mean I often forget that Kvarforth almost equals Attila in his fucked-up-ness (vocally he sounds a heck of a lot like Attila on DMDS which practically no one else can claim):
Hah that's strange, nobody ever even mentions III so it's surprising to hear you two say that ;] I was quite wasted when I made that post and I think I must have listened to III for about 2 hours straight in a trance like state.
Warning : it's pretty graphic for the weak hearted, in my opinion.
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In the name of forests; In the name of stars; In the name of all the seas; In the name of storms... Proud sons of ancient nation; Proud sons of sacred song in the wind; Proud sons behind a mirror of ice who told... Fathers of the icy age!!
