Shining & Enslaved

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In October 2007 Shining toured Europe as support for the progressive black metal band Enslaved. The concerts usually ended with the two bands doing a cover version of King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man. After seeing a video of one of these covers, the programme committee of the most internationally acclaimed jazz festival in Norway, Moldejazz commissioned the two bands to write and perform a 90-minute work together. The resulting work Nine Nights in Nothingness – Glimpses of Downfall, often referred to as The Armageddon Concerto or Armageddon Concerto, was first performed at Moldejazz 19 July 2008. The concerto consists of nine movements, five of which were composed by Jørgen Munkeby and four by Ivar Bjørnson of Enslaved. Inspired by Norse mythology, doomsday cults and science fiction, the music describes the end of the world, a following post-apocalyptic environment and finally a new beginning. Musically the different movements draw inspiration form a wide range of sources, most notably György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, and John Coltrane, but also Sunn O))) and The Beatles. As the first performance of The Armageddon Concerto since Moldejazz 2008, Enslaved and Shining were the main headliners at the 2010 Roadburn Festival, where Enslaved were the artist in residence. The Concerto has since then not been performed. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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