International Blackjazz Society
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| International Blackjazz Society | ||||
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| Released | October 23, 2015 | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde metal, alternative metal, industrial metal, progressive metal, industrial rock | |||
| Length | 38:04 | |||
| Label | Spinefarm Records | |||
| Producer | Jørgen Munkeby | |||
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International Blackjazz Society is the seventh studio album by Norwegian avant-garde metal band Shining. It was released on October 23, 2015 through Spinefarm Records.
The first album of the band without original drummer Torstein Lofthus, it is also the first album with his replacement Tobias Ørnes Andersen and keyboardist Eirik Tovsrud Knutsen, and the last with bassist Tor Egil Kreken, who had been a part of the band for all of their metal-oriented albums.
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 77/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Alternative Press | [3] |
| Classic Rock | [4] |
| Kerrang! | KKKK[1] |
| MetalSucks | [5] |
| Pitchfork | 7.0/10[6] |
| PopMatters |  [7] |
| Slant | [8] |
Upon the release, International Blackjazz Society received generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 77, based on 8 reviews.[1]
