The video we’re about to premiere from Sweden’s Shining, for the song “Vilja & Dröm” (“Will and Dream”) off their new album IX – Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends, comes with a NSFW warning. Unlike most metal videos branded with that warning, this one doesn’t include salacious scenes of nudity. Instead, it depicts images of true obscenity — actual film footage and photographs of extreme violence inflicted upon the human body.
The video, beautifully filmed and edited by long-time Shining collaborator Martin Strandberg, also includes the band kicking the hell out of this electrifying song in a boiler room. It begins with the burning of “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 — and consistently honored in its breach by the savagery of humankind ever since then.
If you’re unfamiliar with the song for which this video was made, it’s a bit of a throwback to Shining’s black metal origins, a track that begins in electrifying fashion with a turbocharged rush of black metal venom before slowing into a dissonant, doom-laced crawl through a wasteland of broken glass and splintered bones, and then rocking the fuck out.
It’s an emotionally powerful song driven hard by the vehement explosiveness of Kvarforth’s distinctive, unhinged vocals. Full of rage and anguish, and as black as the charred remains of napalmed corpses, it’s a striking piece of music made even more strikingly potent by this video.
The warning is a serious one. The sampled footage in the video is disturbing, because it’s real.
IX – Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends is out now, and available for purchase in a variety of CD and LP formats at this location.
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Official Website: shiningasylum.com/
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SHINING (Sweden) – Vilja & Dröm (Official Music Video) from The True Shining on Vimeo.
13 Responses to “AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: SHINING — “VILJA & DRÖM””
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A killer song and video! 🙂
Hey, you’re the guy who ran Metalsucks for a day, how’s it going? Didn’t know you were a fellow Shining fan
Yes, I’m the culprit 🙂
I’m doing very good, I’ve been providing the occasional interview to this fine site. Yup, I think Shining is pretty killer 🙂
Such nihilism…
Great track, why I don’t listen to Shining baffles me. My only exposure to them (musically) is Kvarforths work with Anaal Nathrakh
Hot damn, those riffs are vicious, as are Kvarforth’s vocals. Gotta get my hands on a copy of this somehow.
It’s a fascinating album, but this song is my favorite track — because it really hits so hard, and the video for it is perfect.
And this is why I’m addicted to your website.
Seriously.
Someone who KNOWS what the fuck they are talking about.
Rare in the journalistic metal circles.
Now, if we could just get NK to TOUR over here…
Thank you man! I’d kill to see Shining live, or at least I’d think very seriously about it. 🙂
It would be a truly traumatic, horrifying experience to see Shining live.
And I mean that in the best way possible.
I came.
Thank you. Our work here is done.
No salacious scenes of nudity? That’s a turn off right there.
Yeah, in retrospect that was probably not the right way to begin the post. 🙂