Shining – Black Jazz: Album of the year already?!
More angry cyber-metal-jazz-monster than record
I recently came into possession of the new album by Norwegian band Shining’s new album Black Jazz, and it completely blew my mind. As the title suggests, it’s a fusion of those two crowd-pleasing genres experimental jazz and Scandinavian black metal, which coincidentally happen to be my and Jake’s favourite genres, respectively.
I know and like their previous album, Grindstone, which perversely features the title track of the album before that (In The Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster – which doesn’t) – and I know two of the members as members of Jaga Jazzist.
But this, I was not expecting. And nor, it seems, was anyone else.
