SHINING – One One One
1. I Won’t Forget
2. The One Inside
3. My Dying Drive
4. Off the Hook
5. Blackjazz Rebels
6. How Your Story Ends
7. The Hurting Game
8. Walk Away
9. Paint The Sky Black
SHINING are a special band. There simply can no doubt about the fact that the Norwegian blackjazz band is one of the best – and probably also weirdest – band of these days’ metal scene. But is it really metal? Definitely not. SHINING break the structures of a scene and go far beyond. With “blackjazz” the band created their own genre. Somewhere between (black-) metal and, yes, jazz. Hard guitar music that features screams, blast beats and a saxophone. Definitely worth a listen!
The blackjazz rebels’ new album One One One (out May 29th via Prosthetic Records). The album was co-produced by Sean Beaven (NINE INCH NAILS, MARILYN MANSON, SLAYER) who made sure that this album can easily be called “brilliant”. If you sill can’t imagine that SHINING‘s One One One is an ingenious blackjazz album, you should definitely check out the album stream which is featured below. It also includes a track-by-track commentary by the band’s frontman Jørgen Munkeby.
One One One is SHINING‘s strongest and most mature album so far. Not that Blackjazz (2010) and Grindstone (2007) weren’t great albums – they seriously were! But One One One is the perfect end of the blackjazz trilogy. An end that couldn’t be more amazing, more stunning and more breathtaking. And with One One One SHINING released an album that is hard to conquer with. Not only for other bands but also for the band itself. At least I have no idea what could come after One One One. Feels like SHINING‘s developed to perfection. But somehow I was feeling the same in 2010 when they released Blackjazz. So who knows what Jørgen Munkeby and his band mates will blow out in the future…
SHINING – “I Won’t Forget”