Halmstad (Niklas angående Niklas)

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Halmstad (Niklas angående Niklas)

| type = Studio album

| artist = Shining

| cover = Shining - Halmstad.jpg

| alt = A black and white photograph of a person with their back against a wall who is holding what appears to be gun to their mouth using their left hand. The photograph is in deep shadow and it is difficult to tell if the person is standing or sitting or a man or woman. There appears to be a bra strap on the left shoulder suggesting it is a woman.

| released = 16 April 2007

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Depressive suicidal black metal

| length = 42:35

| label = Osmose Productions

| producer =

| prev_title = The Eerie Cold

| prev_year = 2005

| next_title = Klagopsalmer

| next_year = 2009

}}

{{italic title|all=yes|noerror}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Sputnikmusic

| rev1score = 4/5{{Cite web |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/14490/Shining-%28SWE%29-V---Halmstad/ |title=Review: Shining (SWE) – V – Halmstad |last=Hanson |first=John |date=4 December 2007 |accessdate=15 September 2013 |publisher=Sputnikmusic}}

}}

Halmstad (Niklas angående Niklas) (Swedish for "Halmstad (Niklas Regarding Niklas)") is the fifth album by Swedish black metal band Shining. It was released by Osmose Productions on 16 April 2007. A black LP edition was released and limited to 500 copies.

Track 1 starts with the beginning verses of "Antigonish", an 1889 poem by William Hughes Mearns:

{{Poem quote

|text=As I was going up the stair

I met a man who wasn't there.

He wasn't there again today.

I wish, I wish, he'd go away.

|sign=William Hughes Mearns

|source=

|title=Antigonish

}}

Track 5 is an arrangement of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata". Several lines by Christina Ricci from the movie Prozac Nation were sampled in this album.