History Music / Shining

** GutturalGrowler: He also fits this when he starts doing a deep growl.

* Marcus Hammarström - Bass

* 2000 - I. Within Deep Dark Chambers
* 2001 - II. Livets ändhållplats (Life's Last Stop)
* 2002 - III. Angst - Självdestruktivitetens emissarie (Anxiety - The Emissary of Self-Destruction)
* 2005 - IV. The Eerie Cold
* 2007 - V. Halmstad [[note]] Named after Kvarforth's hometown and where the band formed. Also subtitled with "''Niklas Angående Niklas''", with stands for "''Niklas Regarding Niklas''".[[/note]]
* 2009 - VI. Klagopsalmer (Hymns of Lament)
* 2011 - VII. Född förlorare (Born Loser)
* 2012 - Redefining Darkness
* 2015 - IX. Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends
* 2018 - X - Varg utan flock (Wolf Without a Pack)

** Taken UpToEleven with the release of ''IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends''.

Not to be confused with [[Literature/TheShining the novel by Stephen King, as well as the movies]], as Kvarforth has stated are not influenced by the band name. Same with [[VideoGame/ShiningSeries the video game series]]. Or with the Norwegian ProgressiveMetal band [[Music/ShiningNorway also called Shining]] (which started out as jazz before passing through ProgressiveRock), as they often are.

Not to be confused with [[Literature/TheShining the novel by Stephen King, as well as the movies]], as Kvarforth has stated are not influenced by the band name. Same with [[VideoGame/ShiningSeries the video game series]]. Or with the Norwegian ProgressiveMetal band [[Music/ShiningNorway also called Shining]] (which started out as jazz before passing through NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly ProgressiveRock), as they often are.

Not to be confused with [[Literature/TheShining the novel by Stephen King, as well as the movies]], as Kvarforth has stated are not influenced by the band name. Same with [[{{VideoGame/Shining}} the video game series]]. Or with the Norwegian ProgressiveMetal band [[Music/ShiningNorway also called Shining]] (which started out as jazz before passing through NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly ProgressiveRock), as they often are.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Niklas Kvarforth will shamelessly hand out razor blades to his fans and claims that he intends to use his music to drive its listeners to suicide, but he won't watch ''WesternAnimation/South Park'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXFDVp4dZ8k because he thinks it's "too obscene."]]

* 2001 - II. Livets ändhållplats (Life's Ending Place)

->"''Shining Hates You Exclusively''"
--> - Back cover from ''Within Deep Dark Chambers''

** "Yttligare ett steg närmare total jävla utfrysning" samples a voice reading an excerpt of the poem "Antigonish" by William Hughes Mearns (incidentally, this excerpt is also the source of the name of the film ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere'').

* ShoutOut: It's not entirely clear if this is intentional, but the album ''8 ½ - Feberdrömmar i vaket tillstånd'' may have been made at least partially as a shout-out to the film ''EightAndAHalf''. Niklas seems to be a pretty big fan of cinema.

* Jarle "Uruz" Byberg - Drums

** "Vilseledda barnasjälars hemvist" samples an unknown female voice singing an excerpt of "You Are My Sunshine", a 1930s standard written by Jimmie Davis and Carl Mitchell.

* BlackMetal: '''Suicidal''' Black Metal.

* DrivenToSuicide: More like "Driven to Suicide: ''The Band''".

Shining is a well known Music/BlackMetal project that formed around 1996 in Halmstad, Sweden. The band is known for its vocalist and remaining original member Niklas Kvarforth, who's infamous for his lyrical themes of suicide, self harm, depression, and his overall misanthropic beliefs.

Often considered one of the best known bands of the DSBM (or Depressive suicidal black metal) despite Niklas [[CreatorBacklash being heavily against this term due to later bands using it as a means of therapy instead of harming their listeners]].