Niklas Kvarforth

Niklas Kvarforth (born December 7, 1983) is a Swedish musician. He is best known as the founder, composer and vocalist of the black metal band Shining.

As a multi-instrumentalist musician, Kvarforth started Shining when he was only twelve years old, in 1996. The band had 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, I: Within Deep Dark Chambers that Kvarforth became the band's vocalist.

With Shining

• Within Deep Dark Chambers (2000)
• Livets ändhållplats (2001)
• III: Angst, självdestruktivitetens emissarie (2002)
• IV: The Eerie Cold (2005)
• V: Halmstad (2007)
• VI: Klagopsalmer (2009)
• VII: Född förlorare (2011)
• Redefining Darkness (2012)
• IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends (2015)

With Skitliv

• Amfetamin (MCD) (2008)
• Skandinavisk Misantropi (2009)

With Diabolicum

• Hail Terror (2005)

With Den Saakaldte

• Øl, mørke og depresjon (2008)
• All Hail Pessimism (2009)

With Funeral Dirge

• The Silence Ebony (1999)

With Bethlehem

• A Sacrificial Offering to the Kingdom of Heaven in a Cracked Dog's Ear (2009)
• Stönkfitzchen (2010)

With Manes

• Solve et Coagula (2009)

With The Sarcophagus

• Towards the Eternal Chaos (2009)

With Anaal Nathrakh

• Vanitas (2012)
• Desideratum (2014)

With The Vision Bleak

• Set Sail to Mystery (2010)