Shining - IV: the Eerie cold

Shining
"IV: the Eerie Cold"
CD/2005
Avantgarde Music

This is a tough fooker, which remindes me quite a lot about the glory of the old Black Metal scene that flourished in the early 90s. mainly in our little brothers backyard Norway. Shining is one of the few (if not the only) swedish band that can unleash the same fury and angst that for instance Burzum, Mayhem and mighty mighty Darkthrone did at there uttermost peak. Shining has all the right components and all the right black glue 2 tie it all together. And a singer that bleeds and harks like he was not of this world. Our at least he wished he would not be. A thing that really differ Shining from the rest of the ugly pack is that they know that you dont have 2 hammer your way thru a record in 200mph. The harshness does not come from the rough speed nor the most extreme mockery but it comes from the one and probably best instrument that can incorporate and yield Evil; the human mind and body. The highlights are there nearly all along this fourth and, as i have grasped it, last journey. But one particular moment of utter magnificens must be the titel song. Magnificint with its great sampling of Sean Penn from the great movie "The Assassination of Richard Nixon". This is a all thumbs up record.