Redefining Darkness is the eighth studio album by the

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

black metal Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emp ...

band Shining. It was released through

Spinefarm Records Spinefarm Records is a Finnish independent record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists. It is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. History Spinefarm Records was originally founded in 1990 by Riku Pääkkönen as a mail-order distrib ...

on 29 October 2012. The album is dedicated to the memory of

Trond Bråthen Trond Bråthen (28 May 1977 – 13 May 2012), also known by the stage names Trondr Nefas and Alastor Nefas, or simply as Nefas, was a Norwegian singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist. Despite being primarily known for his work as the vocalist an ...

(a.k.a. "Trondr Nefas").

Track listing

LP track listing

Personnel

Shining

Niklas Kvarforth Niklas Olsson (born 7 December 1983), better known as Niklas Kvarforth, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. He is the founder, composer, and vocalist of the black metal band Shining. Background As a multi-instrumentalist musician, Kvarforth star ...

– vocals, guitars, keyboards *Peter Huss – guitars *Christian Larsson – bass guitar *Ludwig Witt – drums

Additional musicians

*Hoest – additional vocals ("Du, mitt konstverk") *Andreas Huss – saxophone ("The Ghastly Silence") *

Rob Caggiano Robert Caggiano (born November 7, 1976) is an American guitarist and record producer. Since 2013, Caggiano has been the lead guitarist of the rock band Volbeat. He had formerly been guitarist of thrash metal band Anthrax and nu metal band Boile ...

– lead guitar (first guitar solo) ("Han som hatar människan") *Peter Bjärgö – additional vocals ("Hail Darkness Hail") *

Olli Ahvenlahti Olli Ahvenlahti (born 6 August 1949, in Helsinki) is a Finnish pianist, composer and conductor. He is of Russian descent. Ahvenlahti succeeded Ossi Runne as the Finnish conductor at the Eurovision Song Contest for the 1990 Contest. In all, h ...

– piano ("Det stora grå") *

Andy LaRocque Andy LaRocque (born Anders Allhage, 29 November 1962) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as a member of the heavy metal band King Diamond since 1985. Biography LaRocque started in the Swedish hard rock band Swedish Bea ...

– lead guitar (second guitar solo) ("For the God Below")

Production

*Trine + Kim Design Studio – artwork *Andy LaRocque, Shining – producer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Redefining Darkness Shining (Swedish band) albums 2012 albums Spinefarm Records albums