IX / Everyone Everything Everywhere Ends

Heavy metal has its share of infamous outlaws, Ozzy, Axl, Nikki Sixx, Manson. As black metal enters its third decade, Shining’s Niklas Kvarforth continues to be its leading Agent Provocateur; inciting as much consternation among the “true” as he does fanaticism among the soon-to-be soiled minds of his growing legions of devotees. Kvarforth’s antics, opinions, and sometimes mere presence is accompanied by the gnashing teeth and wailing, tone-deaf opinions of the self-proclaimed genre “elite.”