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Controversial Swedish metal band SHINING are streaming their new album, ‘X – Varg Utan Flock’ (translation; ‘Wolf Without a Pack’). A dynamic, provocative, and daring album, ‘X – Varg Utan Flock’ is streaming here. 

As is their wont, SHINING use black metal as a foundation upon which to build epic and radical songs that smash all genre convention. The charismatic Kvarforth, ever the conductor of madness, leads the charge with some of metal’s most daring and expressive vocals. With ‘X – Varg Utan Flock’, SHINING proves once and for all that they stand alone as one of black metal’s most intrepid bands.

‘X – Varg Utan Flock’ will be released worldwide on Jan.5, 2018. Pre orders for the album are available here. The artwork and track list for ‘X – Varg Utan Flock’ has been revealed as well, and can be found below:

Track list:
1. Svart Ostoppbar Eld (click to stream, also available via Spotify)
2. Gyllene Portarnas Bro (click to stream, also available via Spotify)
3. Jag Är Din Fiende (click to stream, also available via Spotify)
4. Han Som Lurar Inom
5. Tolvtusenfyrtioett
6. Mot Aokigahara

SHINING is one of Sweden’s leading black metal bands, and founder/vocalist Niklas Kvarforth continues to be one of heavy metal’s most notorious Agent Provocateurs. Kvarforth incites as much consternation among the “true” as he does fanaticism among the soon-to-be soiled minds of his growing legions of devotees. His antics, opinions, and sometimes mere presence is accompanied by the gnashing teeth and wailing, tone-deaf opinions of the self-proclaimed genre “elite”.