Shining - IX – Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends
When we think of Shining a lot of
people just think of all rumors and they forget the whole band and
the fact they are indeed skillful musicians,
their new album Ix Everyone ,
Everything, Everywhere ends
is not an easy task to talk about, as
so much things has happend since these days..
the first I noticed when they started
streaming songs and the album , or what really caught me both of
guard is the feel its all much faster than their previous record,
the second track Vilja & Dröm , is
indeed my favorite of them all, the guitars are purely amazing ,
reminds me a lot of the new Mayhem record for some reason
not quite sure why but its the riffs
that seem so much darker than before,
and indeed maybe more powerful,
chugging guitars riffs over blast beats
grinding drums, indeed different from shining, but I like the
approach...
Niklas voice is on top as always
delivering like nothing before...
although the band never really stated
they are a black metal band I can't escape but saying their new songs
has a lot of those key elements that I personally love with Black
metal from the early 90s, the classic sinister shining riffs are
still there,
along with the lovely melodies of Huss
and Euge that really creates a splender performance in one unit, on
this record...
kinda like maiden in a way guitar
harmonies and such truly beautiful. I admit I am a bit blown away by
Niklas clean vocals , really good and somewhat strange in the same
way but it really shows more than one side of the band...
I think a lot of people will compare
this to be a twin album to Shining's beloved album Halmstad... I can
personally hear a lot of songs that would make some of these songs to
fit on Halmstad, the guitar solos that accompany the melodic riffs
are just so good , its hard to not praise this record... I get a lot
more of an actual band feel then before... Since this time around the
album was written by Euge and Niklas then the rest contributed in the
studio as people would expect...
but I do think this is their strongest
work since Halmstad...
I will point out and say that its wrong
to say Shining
is solely a black metal band because
there are so much more influences that surrounds the band , I would
say they are Extreme metal without diving to deep into the sub genres
and such, since I hate label bands...
But I guess its quite impossible these
days to avoid but ill do my best...
lets put it like this as Dee snider of
Twisted sister once stated music and lyrics allows a person to find
what they are looking for,
if you are looking for black metal you
will find it in this record for sure, but its also allows a person to
really find what ever they reallly enjoy in the metal world...
one song that really just stood out in
sense of new records was människotankens vägglösa rum that song
really reminded me of the new Mayhem record...
or at least parts of it.. the fast
blast beats mostly... but as always they proove they are their own
genre, with adding the clean breaks into their sound.
one of the things that I always loved
with Shining is their acoustic guitar melodies that seem to haunt on
every album here and there,
one song that really just stood out in
sense of new records was människotankens vägglösa rum that song
really reminded me of the new Mayhem record...
or at least parts of it.. the fast
blast beats mostly... but as always they proove they are their own
genre, with adding the clean breaks into their sound.
one of the things that I always loved
with Shining is their acoustic guitar melodies that seem to haunt on
every album here and there,
its a quite short album only 6 tracks
but its 6 tracks of pure golden music...
I can with pride say that this album is
indeed one of my favorite of 2015
so far! lets see what next door
unlocks!
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