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Friday, October 23, 2015

Shining "International Blackjazz Society"


Country: Norway
Genre(s)Avant Prog, Jazz-Rock, Progressive Metal
LabelSpinefarm
FormatCD, vinyl
Release dateOctober 23, 2015
Tracklist
1. Admittance (1:06)
2. The Last Stand (4:17)
3. Burn It All (5:15)
4. Last Day (4:09)
5. Thousand Eyes (6:49)
6. House of Warship (4:34)
7. House of Control (6:50)
8. Church of Endurance (0:58)
9. Need (4:07)

Total Time: 38:05

Line-up
Jørgen Munkeby - vocals, saxophone, guitar, keyboards, bass
Håkon Sagen - guitar
Tobias Ørnes Andersen - drums
Eirik Tovsrud Knutsen - keyboards
Tor Egil Kreken - bass

Description/Reviews
On their 2010 album Blackjazz, the Norwegian jazz/prog collective Shining absorbed metal into their aesthetic, and it seemed to focus them. On earlier records the band, organized around multi-instrumentalist Jørgen Munkeby, were more elusive, but Blackjazz was an album made entirely of jagged shapes, like the irregular, violent architecture of a cliffside. It feels aggressively assembled, as if its ideas of metal and jazz were less harmonized than magnetized together. The follow-up, 2013’s One One One, reduced them into an atomically unstable industrial rock band. While thrilling, the album could have the remoteness of a formal exercise.
 Read the full review by Brad Nelson at pitchfork.com

Media/Samples 
Last Day

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