Shining

 Dark, depressing, doomy, heavy as fuck black metal from one of Sweedens best. Halmstead, Shining's 5th album showcases their transition from straight black metal to the current progressive-extreme black metal. Tons of acoustic guitar interludes, solos, screams of all sort, and some crazy time signatures. As for the lyrics they are pretty tough to understand...because they are in sweedish, but they deal with death and suicide and all that metal shit. The Opeth of black metal!
Vintage 2007
-LL