Less than a year later “experimental black metal” band Shining is back at the Baroeg. And a new bass-player, with album #6 under their belt, and album #7 to be released in a few months I guess they found it time to do some promotional gigs again. They brought two Norwegian black metal bands as support.

The first band Svarttjern was already playing when I entered the venue. I guess I can be short about this, pretty much straightforward black metal (a bit Marduk-ish) with corpsepaint, spikes, chains and hail satan’s all along the way. Not anything I like much. Plus the band seemed to do this on routine for as far as one can say that a young band like this as routine. Or perhaps it was too early still on this Sunday afternoon for them to get into it.

Pretty much the same can be said about Sarkom, the second band. They stopped 10 minutes earlier than planned. Not that it bothered me much as I couldn’t really get into them anyway. Niklas of Shining joined them for a song on stage which sounded more like Celtic Frost btw. O well too bad one can’t fast forward gigs.

At last Shining appeared, who after an intro started with a song from the Eerie Cold album – The Claws of Perdition. Unfortunately that was also the last of Eerie Cold they played. Most of the other songs were from Halmstad and not surprising from their latest album Klagopsammer. Even the cover song Ohm that album got played, as well as the first two songs. The only old track they played was the first ever written Shining song Submit to Selfdestruction. In fact they played it twice, as they had – Niklas said – not rehearsed any encores, and the bass player couldn’t play any other songs yet so it was play a song again, or play a song without bass; the audience had to pick. It became playing Submit to Selfdestruction again. And they threw in a new song as well. That sounded pretty good, pretty much in the same style still. So that probably is going to be another good album. Niklas had stopped doing most of his stage acts, like burning cigarettes on his skin, cutting, or even fake blood. I guess it wears off with age, besides a band of this quality doesn’t need the freakshow.