Niklas Kvarforth


Niklas Olsson, better known as Niklas Kvarforth, is a Swedish musician. He is the founder, composer and vocalist of the black metal band Shining.
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Biography

As a multi-instrumentalist musician, Kvarforth started Shining when he was only 12 years old, in 1996. The band released their first EP, Submit to Selfdestruction, two years later, on which he played guitars and bass. It was not until the band released their first album, Within Deep Dark Chambers, that Kvarforth became the band's vocalist.
Kvarforth is known in the scene for his extreme and sometimes violent behaviour during live performances, including fighting members of other bands, and handing out razor blades to audience members in 2007. Kvarforth has also been accused of assaulting and threatening audience members in 2017.
Kvarforth has also performed auto-mutilations onstage and seems to encourage the practice. He often states in interviews that he hates "everything that grows". It is unclear if his statements made to journalists are in earnest or simply to mock them. Many fans believe he generally holds journalists and reporters in contempt, and purposely mocks them. Kvarforth himself has neither affirmed nor denied this publicly, but consistently expresses his hatred of other people, himself, various countries, and life itself.

Discography

[file:Shining Osnabruck 3 12 2011 01.jpg|thumb|Kvarforth performing in 2011]
YearTitleBand
1998Submit to Selfdestruction Shining
1999The Silence EbonyFuneral Dirge
2000Within Deep Dark ChambersShining
2001Livets ÄndhållplatsShining
2002III: Angst, Självdestruktivitetens EmissarieShining
2005Hail TerrorDiabolicum
2005IV: The Eerie ColdShining
2007V: HalmstadShining
2008AmfetaminSkitliv
2008Øl, mørke og depresjonDen Saakaldte
2009Towards the Eternal ChaosThe Sarcophagus
2009All Hail PessimismDen Saakaldte
2009VI: Klagopsalmer Shining
2009A Sacrificial Offering to the Kingdom of Heaven in a Cracked Dog's EarBethlehem
2009Solve et CoagulaManes
2009Skandinavisk MisantropiSkitliv
2010Set Sail to MysteryThe Vision Bleak
2010StönkfitzchenBethlehem
2011VII: Född FörlorareShining
2012Redefining DarknessShining
2014DesideratumAnaal Nathrakh
2015IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, EndsShining
2016Aeons In SodomUrgehal
2018 X: Varg Utan FlockShining
2020A ForestBehemoth
2023ShiningShining