Though they're separated by profound differences-- most especially improvisation and rigidity-- jazz and metal have a lot more in common than most fan...
ivarmac - 25.04.2010
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 ...
Jordan Redmond - 26.03.2010
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...
Guy Peters - 15.03.2010
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...
Matt Evans - 19.02.2010
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...
Max Burke - 18.02.2010
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 ...
Luke Slater - 10.02.2010
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...
Adrien Begrand - 03.02.2010
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...
Adam Strohm - 01.02.2010
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...
Scott Heisel - 29.01.2010
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...