Tag Archives: Niklas Kvarforth

Metal Insider’s Top 20 best black metal drummers

Posted by on March 27, 2024

  There are countless incredible drummers in the black metal world. Thus, compiling a list of the greatest seemed to pose an especially daunting task. However, the musicians below are all so outstanding that our choices made themselves. Since this list is rather long, we’ll keep our intro brief. Please allow the following 20 drummers to dazzle […]

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Niklas Kvarforth’s The Sinister Initiative announces Shining’s ‘The Helsinki Tapes’ and much more

Posted by on February 26, 2024

  In an unexpected Instagram post, the Finnish record label The Sinister Initiative announced an album by the legendary Swedish black metal powerhouse Shining titled The Helsinki Tapes. This mysterious offering is bound to prove a masterpiece, given Shining’s status as a pioneering outfit of unsurpassed quality; Shining has been destroying lives and inspiring psychopaths […]

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The Sinister Initiative Confirms Several Releases for 2024

Posted by on February 10, 2024

  The Sinister Initiative has been infecting the world with many of the most brilliant and lethal musical atrocities since its rebirth in 2022. TSI was founded by Shining’s genius mastermind, Niklas Kvarforth, who brings decades of experience as a label owner. His accomplices Tuomas Tahvanainen and Mathias Palmroth constitute the other two members of […]

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Interview: A dive into dark realms with Shining’s Niklas Kvarforth exploring brutal new self-titled album

Posted by on October 5, 2023

  Known as one of the most controversial acts in the black metal scene exploring the dark and unthinkable, Shining have recently released their eleventh full-length self-titled offering. Promised to be their most brutal album yet and first under Napalm Records, the follow-up to 2018’s X: Varg utan flock takes listeners to darker waters, exploring […]

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Behemoth’s ‘A Forest’ EP is exactly the treat we all need right now

Posted by on May 18, 2020

  This pandemic has been dismal and metal fans have been hit especially hard with the lack of any actual shows or events for the foreseeable future. Thankfully, Poland’s Behemoth has crafted a short four-song EP to help get us all through. As Nergal states: “We hope this brings some respite for anyone struggling during […]

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Album Review: There’s little to criticize on Shining’s ‘X – Varg Utan Flock’

Posted by on January 5, 2018

Trigger Warning: I’m writing about Niklas Kvarforth and Shining – the one from Sweden – the one you’re probably afraid of. I don’t really care too much what people think of Shining and I don’t care too much what people think about me for reviewing Shining. You can read my thoughts on Shining’s live show […]

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Review: Shining bring ‘No More Safe Space’ tour, unease, to Trenton, NJ’s Championship Bar, 5/6/17

Posted by on May 22, 2017

  Shining is a band many have read about but few have actually experienced. While I’m generally a fan of the heavier variety of Scandinavian metal, a tour that was billing itself as the “No More Safe Space Tour” is one I had to see. I’m a firm believer in freedom of expression and free […]

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Shining show cancelled due to frontman allegedly groping women, drugging a drink

Posted by on May 16, 2017

  Swedish death metal band Shining are currently on the road with Revenge and Wolvhammer on the “No More Safe Space Tour.” As you might imagine, this isn’t a show where you’ll find Antifa members at, unless they’re protesting it (which they haven’t so far). At any rate, Toilet Ov Hell reports that tomorrow’s show in […]

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