My Story As Metal Frontman #63: Niklas Kvarforth (Shining / Høstsol)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Shining and Høstsol frontman Niklas Kvarforth being interviewed to Chaoszine about his journey as a metal vocalist.
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► Interview: Arto Mäenpää
► Editing: Tero Tuohenmaa
► Thumbnail photo: Pasi Eriksson
► Thumbnail: John Wins
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Amazing channel man!
@@ghuldorgreyThanks!
Niklas could probably help you in finding... Natramn for an interview
Love Niklas! He has such a dark sense of humour, he is very intelligent and makes great music. It was an honour to interview him! 🖤
He's so intelligent he hasn't figured out himself that it's "down the street" rather than "across the road" despite obsessing over it for decades. What a loser.
Jesus, Niklas is looking the best I've ever seen him in any interview in this lol.
Take care of yourself Niklas ! Thank you so much for your work
I really love how calm he is in this interview !! I just love this man.
so good to hear that he is sober!
“You don’t make money from selling records, you make money from selling ass!” Greatest quote from Niklas. So honest he is.
Niklas, my husband and I been to your concert in Toronto in 2016 i think, cant remember exact date. You were great! Ive been a fan since long time. I hope you get better! Im glad that you fight this. You can do it! Proud of you!
Niklas still has a great sense of humour.
Love seeing him this calm and cooperative.
I'm happy to see this guy getting it together and becoming more healthy minded. Way to go, Nik! Hope you continue on this path.
How the hell didn't you ask him further about Silencer when he brought it up? We could've gotten a first-hand account of what the band members were like and instead you didn't listen and followed up with a generic, boring question...
For real. It was a perfect cue for further questions, considering how much of a prominent figure Nattramn is in the DSBM and black metal scenes, but the interviewer didn’t take it..
hes just some "artist" who makes shit...whats to know? lol @@madexofxscars
Where does he speak about it?
@@NOONE_MUSIC when he said about Andreas Casado, 11:24. He was a guitarist of Silencer
Because the interviewer doesn't know anything about anything.
NiKlas you’re an extreme intelligent man, I’ve been listening to your music for almost 10 years now. I wish you guys could come to Texas to see live!!
Really true: I once shook his hand after a concert in Essen, Germany!
I'd like to say that I haven't washed that hand since, but since I've NEVER wash my hands, that would be redundant.
What a change compared to the Shining interview 10 years ago (Brussels, December 2013). I like both Niklases. Greetings from Germany!
Brussels 2013 here he was fucking drunk haha. No bottle of whisky makes all the difference
Es la primera vez que veo a Niklas sobrio,dulce,educado y de buen humor! Excelente entrevista!!!
Although I stopped listening to DSBM and any sort of metal music a couple of months ago (after 8 bloody years), this video caught my eye. Glad to see he is doing better now. Wish you hadn't changed the topic when he started to talk about Silencer, tho.
One of the black metal musician that i respect so much 🖤🖤🖤🖤🤘🤘🤘
Niklas will always continue to be the best. Great interview, for sure.❤❤❤
Thanks for asking questions relating to vocals etc. Sick of shit questions by shit journalists. You actually had relevant important questions relating to the music process & so on. Good job.
Last album is great as usual 🔥 Stay strong Niklas you're a musical genius and a warrior 🤘
Nikas looks great! Love, Shining especially the first 2 albums, pure BlackMetal.
Niklas is a warrior
Niklas is a clown
A warrior sings about killing himself for 25 Years, without actually doing it? LMAO.
@@ToveriJuri then you don't understand what it is about!
@@ToveriJuriWhat else do you think DSBM is about lol
@KOBRA96-45
The equivalent of emo metalcore BS of Black Metal, but for even bigger losers.
The dude just wanted to talk about live :). I believe some questions could have been adapted to this.
Shining is my all time favorite band!
He's basically polite here 🤣🙏🏻
40 year old man. He's starting to get too tired to act out.
I can't drink alcohol because of the new meds and electro shocks. Than proceeds to drink a glass of beer🎉
Beer flavored water
I mean, could be alcohol free beer
@@m00rons only complete and utterSerialKillersDrink alcohol free beer
I miss him.
Niklas the best thing we have on earth
Thank you for this.
First time I saw the real Niklas. I guess it's because of all the mental struggle that he lashed out so much?
He seems more at peace now. Good for him.
I like his music a lot.
Stop the electro shock. Just stay away from drugs and alcohol.
I spoke with him in 2020 on a video call.
I farted on the set of blue lagoon
I ate a bug on the way to pizza planet
I sat on a bench in a park once
Just how would he have listened to "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" on tape before it was even released? Dude was 10 years old in 1993.
AND his Grandmother who is 70 was into Black metal and gave him the vinyl she was really into the scene at the time
I love black metal but you gotta be a fucked up kid to dig Mayhem at 10 yrs old. I think Niklas sense of time is distorted from the years of psychosis and junking out
He compulsive liar
Before Shining was love/hate for me. Filosofem. Whole new angle.
This interview is so boring and stuffy that even Niklas was sleepy during it (and exhausted from answering same questions over and over again).
I don't understand why all metal press is so boring, they really have no idea how to make an interesting interview.
- when did you hear the metal music for the first time? Who is your favourite singer, guitarist?
These questions are so superficial! Dude, there was Niklas Kvarforth in front of you and you could ask him anything, but you chose to bother that person with such generic and corny questions.
Were you guys doing this interview inside a dentist clinic?
Yes
Glad he got a bit better mentally than he was before. He had a self destructive deathwish.
Nice!
Smart Man.
Getting his ass handed to him. Karma.
I suppose it happens to us all at some point.
3:45 no one?
Hail Niklas! Hail Shining 4ever!
YESSSSIR
I guess we all have PTSD now.
Extreme version of Spinal Tap ? If so ; GENIUS.
What’s that squeak noise that comes and goes every once in a while? It’s maddening….
His grandma had Mayhem?!?! Back in the 80’s?
Dude is a pathological liar.
Deathcrush was released in 87
Guns'n'Roses. Mayhem he had discovered later by himself
@@therisendead7His opening statement: "I don't drink alcohol" and he is sipping a beer haha
Mayhem was formed in 84
he gives the performance of his life lol
True, at the beginning of the interview he says that he can't drink alcohol, and at approximately 8:08, he was going to take his glass and left it, LOL
BASED
Wait he said elettroshock? Do they still use elettroshock on patients?
Yes, they use anesthesia, it's not barbaric like it was in the past
@@nonamegrl thanks for the answer. But it still causes some damages, also according to what Niklas said... I don't know, even if they now use anesthesia, it still sounds like something brutal. He looks dejected, hope I'm wrong
ECT "electroconvulsive therapy" it's much lighter than it used to be but it's similar I guess
@@francescapalumbo392 I've known a few people who do it. It's pretty strict, the big toll is usually the specific medication's you have to come off for the electroshock therapy. I've always refused that route as I don't believe it's that beneficial in the end. However it's not shocking nowadays that someone goes that route. It's certainly better than the havoc strong medications have on your mind & body. In hindsight, medication isn't therapy, it's there to "stabilize you" so you can function as a normal person would. But it usually comes at a cost of sort of hiding your true passion, identity, personality, things that make you feel human. I personally found it to be counterproductive to achieving balance or getting better. I also made sure to not say or reveal anything that could be perceived/interpreted as psychotic as then it would throw away my efforts to convince Drs I know my best course of treatment. Drs have to recognize through the way you articulate your situation is a congruous state. And if you are having a incongruous affect you gotta keep reminding them you are aware your in that state so they realize you haven't lost the plot, gone "insane". I dunno if that makes sense I'm tired and digress.
Yes, and it can be very effective. It works wonders.
Guns N roses are hard rock that ventured into most rock/blues based generes like country, blue grass, folk etc. Metal one of the generes they did not do, ever. Not even glam-metal even tough they got lumped in with that in the early days but that was only do to there looks "big hair"
Good interview, thanks!
Interviewer really fucked up that Silencer things..
he has the best jokes
generic questions. band is so many years on bm stage and ure asking what was 1st metal record he listened, advice to vocalists. cmon guys, step up.
Sorry, but the interviewer was just not the right one to do this video with Niklas. We could have got awesome insight on Silencer 😵💫
Honestly prolly woulda just been lies tho
Dead has guts to do it. That guy was only pretending suicide. That's not hate. That is just a fact.
I’m glad ,Niklas dont whant die , i remember when Niklas was younger, he suffered so much, i think he brave to talk about a mental healt , when you was young u say a lot shit, niklas dont Escape to this rule.
@@jonnodtveidt8867 I don't remember talking shit about anything. Dead didn't tried making suicide. He don't talk about it. He just did it. Ok. I was wrong. At 2007 was only rumours about Niklas suicide. After that he show himself as that Ghoul. My childhood was mostly happy. Life is a bitch and is not always easy. You have sometimes bad days. Maybe that's why i am just a ordinary guy with ups and downs. Sometimes i think it just a pose. You can't be happy or sad all period. Peter Steel was some kind of dark person with sense of humor. Seeing your nickname. The another musician idol had unlucky ending also.
These types of people do exist, but this is such a banal and overused stereotype at this point.
Potentially detrimental to those suffering, too.
For some people, suxcidxl means a desire to do it. For some, it means a compulsion to do it and a desire not to. My impression is that Pelle fell into the first category and Niklas falls into the second.
If he truly had symptoms of both Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder, he'd simply be diagnosed with Schizoaffective disorder.
No? I myself have both bpII and schizophrenia. Those are three distinct diagnoses.
13:41
Bro brings up silencer. And no follow up questions about it.
I'm sure that most of what Kvarforth does is a character that he's playing, but he tries to come off as unlikeable so much that it feels pathetic.
he's as real as you get it! extraordinary person! but very special!
This ni33a turnin' into Dr. Phil's evil twin
May he stay sober today 🌳
Он будто слез с наркоты. Кому покажи его не знающих не скажут что употребляет или страдает поляркой
почти Шура
That Finnish rallyenglish is so hard to listen...
That squeaking is horrible
Dude is a pathological liar.
Elaborate.
@@perennialcoma Internet money thief, mostly
@@TheSinisterInitiative666 What are you saying bro
@@TheSinisterInitiative666 Payback instead :D :D
It true...it's true... he cheats for money and treats people very badly... a lot, a lot of shit... it's too long to tell
Is that Skyrim soundtrack in the background?
Dude got the Ned Flanders glasses on..
Submit to self diddly-iddly-destruction
Before Shining was love/hate for me. Filosofem. Whole new angle.