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Listen to Shining’s (Sweden) Hauntingly Gorgeous New Song “Besök Från I(ho)nom”

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Photo: Ester Segarra
Photo: Ester Segarra

Those newfangled Norwegians calling themselves Shining seem to be getting all the press, whatwith their newfangled “blackjazz” or whatever the kids are calling it these days (j/k I love those guys). Sweden’s own Shining, of course, have been doing it for way longer. Not that it’s a popularity or longevity contest: both bands play completely different brands of metal. Comparing the two Shinings is an ultimately silly pursuit: it’s apples and oranges, and they’re both great.

The Swedish Shining’s ninth album, IX – Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends, comes out April 21st on Season Of Mist, and Revolver’s got the premiere of a little ditty from that album called “Besök Från I(ho)nom” (“Visit From Him,” according to Google Translate). Niklas Kvarforth is in top form here, at least if you’ve been a fan of Shining’s last batch of albums (as I have): the song is alternatingly haunting and soothing, vile and gorgeous, blackened and deathly, chaotic and controlled, all within a well-orchestrated, almost Opethian 8-minute structure that’s come to define latter day Shining. In short, I fucking love it.

Stream it below. Pre-order here.

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