IV: The Eerie Cold

Shining’s Norwegian misanthropy meets compositional ambition on this Avantgarde Music release, where depressive black metal’s tremolo-picked anguish collides with progressive metal’s structural complexity. Six tracks of suicidal ideation and dissonant guitar work stretch beyond the genre’s typical three-minute bursts, layering blast beats beneath intricate riffing that suggests both Ulver and early Enslaved. The result is bleak and deliberately difficult—a record that refuses catharsis or accessibility in favor of sustained psychological torment.