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艺人: Shining
语种: 英语
厂牌: Selbstmord Services
发行时间: 2002年08月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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SHINING 的第三张作品﹐此次鼓手由传奇鼓手HELLHAMMER担任，十分清脆。Kvarforth的吼叫依然惨绝人寰，总之，对于shining这样的DBM支持是少不了的。

Review (Encyclopaedia Metallum) moments of brilliance - 89%

Written by crazpete on January 5th, 2005

So many black metal bands out there take the Darkthrone approach to song craft that the appeal of fully exploring a repetitive riff in a song often looses its power to the listener. Bands that spend entire songs making the tiniest changes as a dark riff is repeated hypnotically have become a genre of their own, and this album certainly falls in that category. However, like the better moments of Judas Iscariot, this Shining album sculpts singular towers of dark and powerful repetitive riffage. There is a purity and strength that resonates in me with such minimalist music, as 6 minute songs that contain 3 or even 2 riffs wash over the listener: appealing simultaneously with the primal hypnotic parts of the brain as it engages the careful listener with a complex latticework of changes and iterations.

From the words above, the score this album gets may seem confusing. While some of the songs presented on here are amazing pieces of minimalist art, others seem far too much like a band stuck in an uninspired blackened jam session. Particularly, the first minutes of the first track present a wavering combination of two simple dark chords moving back and forth, accented by a seemingly improvised bass line. At 2:47, a painfully bluesy pentatonic bass flourish causes the listener to wince. Almost 5 minutes into the song a heavy metal breakdown shatters all semblances of emotion and reverie as an unexpected musical direction dispels the simple tension of the song. The first track here almost sets the ground rules of the albumâ€™s composition without presenting any of the greatness it has in store.

However, the opening strains of the second song are the perfect antidote for the first. This is a riff to sink oneâ€™s teeth into; so gritty and yet polished, so darkly thick and majestic, it quickly begins to mutate even on the fourth measure and continues to grow and spread its singular power like a potent variant of musical cancer. The riff is a dark minor-scale exploration of floating harmony, as a singular diade is voiced on two strings while a third tone moves with ethereal yet aggressive intent through the chords to constantly recontextualize them. When the typical black metal full strength orchestration comes in about 40 seconds into this; it is not so much predictable as it is necessary. The stops and starts and emotional dynamics as the guitar voices the riff, alternating between being voiced by itself or with the band, are almost perfect. Almost drowning in the sound, 2:22 brings a startling syncopated run of cymbals from Hellhammer that are jarring yet indispensable. Another riff provides counterbalance, only to snap back into focus a minute or so later; and again the riff drastically devolves and is re-voiced on a bell-like synth sound, only to come back again as if to force the listener to appreciate the original orchestration. This is indeed a monster riff that completely dominates the entire 8 minute song. With all that repetition, however, there are always subtle changes in tone, harmony, and arrangement to keep this from being a simplistic parody of hypnotic black metal. This song very nicely illustrates the difference between the simplistic and the artfully minimalist - the highlight of the album.

The next song revolves around a much more traditional dark minor riff (as does the sixth), but is almost as enjoyable. Drumming, more furious but not without accents and mutations, crucially moves this song forward. There are rapturous evil moments in this song, like the jarring break of clean tones with blurred thick chords at 4:12 that seem like menacing storm clouds that come spiraling too quickly from distant mountains to darken an already bleak landscape. Some of the riff and tempo changes here loose the emotional force it continually builds, but it remains an inspiring example of the might of simple dark chords driving vital music.

Some of the moments to follow are mired in heavy metal worship that, while well performed, looses the strange power the more droning organic moments of this release has to offer. The fourth song nicely illustrates both aspects of this album, as some riffs work amazingly well only to contrast sharply with disappointing ideas that seem almost afterthoughts when compared to the polished and flowing nature of the minimalist elements. As mentioned earlier, guitars, drums, and bass all play equal and important roles in moving the music along. Vocals seem uninspired, matched in mediocrity only by the disappointing guitar solo at 4:59 of the fourth song, bending notes and flatly emoting like a washed-up hack trying to show off at Guitar Center (though the fifth song is almost as bad in the tiresome ambiance and synth department).

While the release presents a work that is at times disjointed and ill-conceived, the moments that do work here are simply amazing. Definitely recommended to black metal fans willing to sift through periods of eye-rolling to find sections of sheer brilliance.

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