Shining
Blackjazz

Though they're separated by profound differences-- most especially improvisation and rigidity-- jazz and metal have a lot more in common than most fan...

The album ?Blackjazz? by Oslo?s Shining is a bit of a confusing one, bringing with it the age old question ?how much Noise is too much Noise?A brief ...

Extreme music fans rejoice! This is the genre-exploding mindfuck that you've been praying for every single night as you prostrate yourself in front of...

Lang geleden dat een plaat ons nog zo radicaal wist te overdonderen met een brute aanslag op het gehoor en zin voor dosering. Alles aan Blackjazz is e...

It is a truth universally acknowledged in this here grubby skull that Shining's 2007 release Grindstone was one of the finest of the decade - a dazzli...

Norway's Shining began as an acoustic jazz group. After two albums, they drastically changed their sound for 2005's In The Kingdom of Kitsch You Will ...

Journalists, critics, hacks - whatever you want to call the people who make a living (or not) from writing about music - often get criticised for seem...

The difference between Shining the live act and what you hear from the band on record can be vast at times. In concert, the Norwegians are an absolute...

Ornette Coleman?s Free Jazz and Venom?s Black Metal provided subgenres with nametags and made indelible imprints on future music makers. Shining?s Bla...

Norway's Shining mix industrial and metal into an unholy screech that takes elements from Nine Inch Nails'Broken EP, Meshuggah's Nothing and the colle...