Niklas Olsson (born 7 December 1983), better known as Niklas Kvarforth, is a Swedish musician. He is the founder, composer and vocalist of the black metal band Shining.
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
YearTitleBand1998Submit to Selfdestruction [EP]Shining1999The Silence EbonyFuneral Dirge 2000Within Deep Dark ChambersShining 2001Livets ÄndhållplatsShining 2002III: Angst, Självdestruktivitetens EmissarieShining 2005Hail TerrorDiabolicum 2005IV: The Eerie ColdShining 2007V: HalmstadShining2008AmfetaminSkitliv 2008Øl, mørke og depresjonDen Saakaldte2009Towards the Eternal ChaosThe Sarcophagus2009All Hail PessimismDen Saakaldte 2009VI: Klagopsalmer Shining 2009A Sacrificial Offering to the Kingdom of Heaven in a Cracked Dog's EarBethlehem 2009Solve et CoagulaManes2009Skandinavisk MisantropiSkitliv 2010Set Sail to MysteryThe Vision Bleak2010StönkfitzchenBethlehem 2011VII: Född FörlorareShining 2012Redefining DarknessShining 2014DesideratumAnaal Nathrakh2015IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, EndsShining 2016Aeons In SodomUrgehal2018 X: Varg Utan FlockShining 2020A ForestBehemoth2023Lange leve dödenHøstsol2023ShiningShining
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