Shining to tour the U.S. for real this time

Shining (the Norwayone, not the Swedish one) has announced they will tour the U.S. and Canada, even after a few years of false hopes when not even winning repeated grants to tour the U.S. brought them to American soil. The Norwegian band won a grant in 2010 for the...

Video: You Won’t Forget This New Shining Video (NSFW)

[youtube]http://youtu.be/RpyrbD-jeFs[/youtube] Since their formation in 1999, Shining has evolved into an acoustic jazz outfit into the insane experimental black metal outfit they are today. Now signed to Prosthetic, their sixth album, One One One, will be released in...

Metal Insider’s Top Five: Saxes In Metal

The saxophone was basically the punchline of the ’80s. An instrument that was so “cool,” it became uncool. Sure, there were some solid songs that featured the instrument (well, if you can call “Baker Street” cool), and Clarence Clemons...