Shining

Musical Group

Norwegian band formed in 1999, led by Jørgen Munkeby. Originally rooted in jazz, the group evolved into an experimental hybrid blending jazz, progressive and extreme metal, best known for the album Blackjazz.

Shining is a Norwegian band formed in 1999 and is publicly known for blending jazz and various strands of heavy music. Blackjazz is their widely discussed release; Jørgen Munkeby is the group's founding and central figure.

Three enthusiastic reviews celebrate Shining's Blackjazz as a confrontational hybrid of jazz and extreme metal. Critics highlight technical skill, production, and a deliberate mockery of prog elitism. The band is presented as noisy, inventive, and unsettling in equal measure.

For:Listeners of avant-garde metal, experimental jazz, progressive and boundary-pushing heavy music.

How to define them? Gaudy, revolting, offensive, kitsch, trash.
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They are extremely serious in their technique, extremely serious in production (original and of the highest level: Sean Beavan is involved in this record, who has already worked behind the mixer with NIN and Slayer), and extremely serious in their intentions.
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To give form and face to chaos.
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