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Shining
VI / Klagopsalmer
Genres: Pop, Rock

Track Listings (6) - Disc #1
1. Vilseledda Barnasjalars Hemvist
2. Plagoande O'helga Plagoande
3. Fullstandigt Javla Dod Inuti
4. OHM (Sommar Med Siv)
5. Krossade Drommar Och Brutna Loften
6. Total Utfrysning

CD Details

All Artists: Shining
Title: VI / Klagopsalmer
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Season of Mist
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 2/9/2010
Genres: Pop, Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 822603172423

Synopsis

Album Description

Sweden's Shining was formed in 1996 by a then-12-year-old vocalist, Kvarforth, delivering five, critically acclaimed full length album. The band's sixth creation, and first to see a domestic realease, continues and improves on these stunning yet unsettling elemements. Always going beyond the accepted definitions of "Black Metal", VI/Klagopsalmer is perhaps a little closer but by no means shackled by the true definition of the sub-genre. Almost always surrounded by controversy, One thing is for sure, Tehre is nothing controversial about the brilliance of the writing and music skill of Kvarforth and shining on this genre-bending, awe-inspired masterwork.

CD Reviews

broken shift key | 03/14/2010

(2 out of 5 stars)

"after i read about kvarforth describing this as a transitional album, i can't say i went into it with any enthusiasm. first of all, you don't consciously make an effin' transitional album. you devote all your attention to the album you're writing right now, and if you identify a discographical trend later on that might mark a particular album as a bridge between two styles, fine, call it a transitional album; but you don't _go in_ to make one.

not surprisingly, the results are lukewarm; the songs just lack character and individuality. the band's clarity is slipping, and all the merits of this album amount to cynical replication of previous achievements. with their strange juxtaposition of self-pity leftover from their "pure" suicidal black metal days and newfound swaggering rockstar posturing (and not to mention kvarforth's constant transparent attempts at manufacturing controversy), shining are a band who are easy to hate even when they're releasing fantastic music--so they're not exactly getting by on personality points when they produce something this grey and passionless.

if you've never heard shining before, maybe you'll love this because their dark psychedelia is so foreign to you. but trust me, compared to older stuff it doesn't hold up."