He said that he "wouldn't call Shining a black metal band" and called the "suicidal black metal" term a "foolish idea". However, he stopped using the term in 2001 because it had begun to be used by a slew of other bands, who he felt had misinterpreted his vision and were using the music as a kind of therapy rather than a weapon against the listener as Kvarforth intended. In the beginning he used the term "suicidal black metal" for his music to separate himself from the "mediocre worms". Vocalist Niklas Kvarforth wanted to "force feed" his listeners "with self-destructive and suicidal imagery and lyrics".
The founder of the band, Niklas Kvarforth, has claimed, with contentment, there have been some cases of people committing suicide at least partially under the influence of Shining's music. Shining openly promotes suicide and self-harm in all its forms (e.g. Shining's music also contains several movie samples from films such as Prozac Nation, She's So Lovely, and American Psycho. Musically, Shining went from black metal with doom influences on their earlier work to a more progressive extreme metal sound with extensive use of clean guitars, pentatonic scales, guitar solos, different vocal styles and often tempo shifts and odd time signatures.
We have had a couple of cases in the past with people whom have ended their lives under the influence or partially under the influence of our work and of course this is a true blessing indeed, yet we pray for increased numbers of fatalities. Of course we support suicide, Shining support all that is negative in this bastard world of ours. The band was said to continue with a new singer named “Ghoul,” as one of the wishes from Kvarforth. On 23 August 2006 the band posted a statement on their website declaring Kvarforth had disappeared. Kvarforth disappeared in July 2006 and a rumor was spread he was presumed to have committed suicide. Their fourth album, The Eerie Cold (2005), was supposed to be their last, but the band reformed later the same year with a new line-up capable of live shows. The band released two more albums Livets ändhållplats (2001) and Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie (2002), before splitting up in August 2004. It was not until the band released their first album, Within Deep Dark Chambers (2000), that Kvarforth became the band's vocalist. By the time Kvarforth was fourteen, Shining had released their first EP Submit to Selfdestruction (1998) on which he played guitars and bass.
Kvarforth is the main composer and vocalist of the band and started the band when he was twelve.
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