Country: Norway
Genre(s): Avant Prog, Jazz-Rock, Progressive Metal
Label: Spinefarm
Format: CD, vinyl
Release date: October 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
Links:
Web page
ProgArchives
Proggnosis
