SHINING: The Helsinki Tapes Vinyl LP

Niklas Kvarforth has spent the better part of two decades making black metal that feels genuinely dangerous, not because of corpsepaint and forest posturing, but because the man sounds like he actually means it. SHINING's particular brand of misanthropic, jazz-inflected darkness sits in its own category, and The Helsinki Tapes is the document you didn't know existed until now.

Recorded live in Helsinki, this is SHINING at their most unfiltered, the kind of release that rewards the obsessive and confounds the casual listener. The Swedish black metal underground has always operated on its own terms, and this limited gold vinyl pressing, one of only 1,000 copies worldwide, is exactly the kind of artefact that ends up behind glass in someone's collection while the MP3 crowd wonders what they missed.

Gold coloured vinyl LP, limited to 1,000 copies. Released 2024. Fans of: TAAKE, TSJUDER, Burzum, Virus.