SHINING - II / Livets Ändhållplats

€12.95

SHINING - II / Livets Ändhållplats

€12.95

Depressive Black Metal

Second full-length album by Swedish Black Metal act Shining, and a decisive step deeper into the bleak territories first explored on their debut. Released in 2001, this album refines and intensifies the band’s oppressive vision, pushing further into depressive and suicidal Black Metal with a colder, more focused approach. The compositions are long, repetitive and suffocating, built upon mid-paced to slow tempos, hypnotic tremolo riffs and an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. Every passage feels deliberately restrained, allowing despair and psychological tension to fully unfold. The vocals are desperate and tormented, sounding more unhinged and intimate than before, perfectly aligned with the album’s themes of existential exhaustion, inner collapse and the inevitability of death. The atmosphere is bleak and unrelenting, creating a feeling of emotional paralysis and claustrophobic isolation that defines the album from beginning to end. Dark, monotonous and deeply introspective, “Livets Ändhållplats” stands as a crucial early chapter in Shining’s legacy and an essential release for devotees of oppressive, authentic Depressive Black Metal. A cold stare into the end of life — with no consolation offered.