this is interesting. i hope it'll be released as recording or whatever. it also reminds me that it's been far too long since i listened to either band.
Nine Nights in Nothingness
- Glimpses of Downfall -
We're proud to announce that SHINING and ENSLAVED will give their first and probably only live performance of their brand new 90-minutes armageddon concerto on Saturday 19 July in Molde, Norway. The newly hatched piece of musical art describes the process from the present state to the inevitable downfall of this world, through Ragnarok and a following period of vacuum and nothingness, a brief and painful post-apocalyptic era, and finally through the rise from ashes to a new beginning in a distant time and space. The work draws inspiration from old Norse apocalyptic sagas, along with propheties from more modern doomsday prophets and cults.
ENSLAVED and SHINING are headlining this years Molde International Jazz Festival. The festival writes on their website that ENSLAVED and SHINING are two of Norway's undisputably most hard-hitting and progressive bands, in the word's truest meaning. The bands have shocked, impressed and pushed boundaries each band on their own: Now they gather their power and unite for a blasting, dark and mindbending experience that will be hard to forget.
The two bands performed together for the first time during their European tour in October 2007. The concerto is composed by Ivar Bjørnson (ENSLAVED) and Jørgen Munkeby (SHINING) and arranged together with the band members.
You can see pictures on SHINING's MySpace page from the bands' rehearsals in Bergen:
www.myspace.com/gninihsJuly 16th will probably be your only chance to experience this work performed live!
www.shining.nowww.enslaved.nowww.moldejazz.nowww.myspace.com/gninihswww.myspace.com/enslaved
