Behemoth has released a new EP, A Forest, digitally worldwide (with additional physical copies available for purchase) via Metal Blade. For a preview of this 4-track collection, the new single, “Evoe”, can be heard at:
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Behemoth Shares New Single and Video – “A Forest” ft Niklas Kvarforth of Shining
Behemoth will release a new EP, A Forest, on May 29th via Metal Blade Records. The EP’s title track is a cover of The Cure track, and it features a guest appearance by Shining frontman Niklas Kvarforth. The A Forest EP also includes a live version of the title track as well as two previously unreleased BEHEMOTH songs recorded during the I Loved You At Your Darkest album sessions. Watch the video now! Continue reading
Audio: Diabolicum – Salvation Through Vengeance
Swedish industrial black metallers Diabolicum is streaming “Salvation Through Vengeance” off of Ia Pazuzu (The Abyss Of The Shadows) on July 7, 2015 via Code666 here. This album features Shining‘s Niklas Kvarforth, after a 14 year hiatus.
Diabolicum Releasing Ia Pazuzu (The Abyss Of The Shadows) On July 7th
Cult Swedish industrial black metallers Diabolicum will be releasing their first release in 14 years (and third overall) with Ia Pazuzu (The Abyss Of The Shadows) on July 7, 2015 via Code666/Aural Music. This one features Shining‘s Niklas Kvarforth on vocals.
Initially spawed in 1994 by Sasrof and Thorne under the Imperial moniker, Diabolicum stand among the prime instigators of the industrial black metal scene. The collective’s first demo appeared under the title Mori Voluntaria. The tape was recorded in just two days at a mental hospital and included the session vocals of Blackblood (Tommy Dahlström now of Aeon). Following various personnel shifts, Imperial unleashed The Imperial Darkness demo with vocals and lead guitar handled by Thyrfing (Stefan Dhalberg) with third demo, De FÆrdÆmdas Legion, unveiled by Arte De Occulta shortly thereafter. By 1997, members of Imperial formed black metal collective, Helvete, together with Mysteriis and Kraath of Setherial. The project was put on hold when guitarist Sasrof took over bass responsibilities for Setherial.
Ia Pazuzu (The Abyss Of The Shadows) Track Listing:
01: Baxxar Ehl Uhza
02: The Void Of Astaroth
03: The Silent Spring
04: Genocide Bliss
05: Salvation Through Vengeance
06: The Abyss Of The Shadows
07: One Mans War
08: Angelmaker
09: Ia Pazuzu
Diabolicum 2015 Lineup:
Niklas Kvarforth – vocals
Sasrof – guitars
Gorgorium – bass
Likstrand – guitar
Album Stream: Sigh – Graveward
Japanese avant extreme metallers Sigh is streaming their new album Graveward in its entirety. The album will be out in North America via Candlelight Records on May 4, 2015. It pays homage to Italian zombie and Hammer Horror classics and features guest performances from Trivium‘s Matthew Heafy, DragonForce‘s Fred Leclercq, Shining‘s Niklas Kvarforth, Rotting Christ‘s Sakis Tolis, The Meads Of Asphodel‘s Metatron and more.
Strange Bedfellows – Anaal Nathrakh on Languages and Collaborators
With a band like Anaal Nathrakh, it’s not just the music that dictates how a song will progress but the effect of the language itself. Not satisfied sticking solely to their native language, songs skip through a variety of different languages including Latin, French and German. It’s not just the source of the inspiration that informs these decisions as Dave Hunt goes on to explain:
“I think using other languages is interesting in a few different ways. First of all, another language has a different atmosphere to it. If you say ‘I’m going down the shops’ in Latin it will sound a lot less mundane, it will sound like it has gravity to it. If you say things in Latin, I think it has an atmosphere to it, and that goes for several other languages as well, the harshness to parts of German for example. Also sometimes when we’re using different languages its kind of a pointer to the inspiration for the song, the origins behind it. We had a song partly in French and partly in Latin and that was because it was taken from a book I was reading about a guy called Schopenhauer and that’s what he’d written down in his diary when he was about 14 or 15, sort of a nod to the origins of the phrase. I also think that language is interesting itself, ways of expressing things. I just like messing about with language.”
Language and lyrics may inform the sound of the album, but when it comes to the booklet they are not in the habit of releasing these lyrics in print, however one exception to this rule exists. Passion’s ‘Tod Huetet Uebel’ remains the only song throughout their discography with lyrics officially printed. While it may be tempting to hunt for deeper meaning, it really comes down to a solid respect for the other musicians they work with.
“We spoke to a guy who we got to do some guest singing on that album, we quite often use guests just to add a little bit of interest and to acknowledge that we’re fans of them. He actually is German, Rainer his name is. Before he would agree to do it he asked us to convince him that it was something he could get behind so I sent him a load of potential lyrics, not that he should necessarily use them because if were going to have a guest we want them to do what they want to do, but sort of what I had in mind for the song and the idea behind it. He then wrote some extra lyrics, used some of my original ones and then came up with this title he wanted to use. As we’d worked together on it in a way we wouldn’t normally do and because he quite liked the idea of publishing the lyrics that was the one time we put the lyrics in the booklet for the album.”
Choosing these fellow musicians also remains a very simple process. “We just think who would be cool, usually it’s someone whose music we are fans of in the first place. For example, we’ve had Shane from Napalm Death, played live actually at a festival for us back in our early days and Rainer who I just spoke about, we really liked some stuff he did with Bethlehem a few years ago and on the new album we’ve got Niklas Kvarforth (Shining). We just got to know him and had a good time talking to him, he was a fan of our band. It’s really its an organic choosing process as you can imagine really, we just think who we’d like ourselves and ask.”
CAITLIN SMITH
Shining – 8 ½ – Feberdrommar I Vaket Tillstånd
Shining (SE) is one of those bands that have been not only inflecting pain on other people, but also to themselves. What at first saw as a cool thing, short after was, and is, the reason for the lack of (a much deserved) attention. The vision of Niklas Kvarforth is often missinterpretated, and people don’t seem to understand the genius of what many call “the attitude of an asshole”.Continue reading
When Prozac No Longer Helps – An Interview With Shining
Swedish extreme metal formation Shining is one of the most controversial acts in (extreme) metal today. Much of that has to do with frontman’s Niklas Kvaforth’s maniacal antics. Marcus J, West caught up with Niklas to talk about everything Shining..Continue reading