Striborg

[GreenPea]

Yeah I know no one will care here, but still have slim hopes some souls could be saved (or damned). Striborg is a one band band of 'experimental-ambient' black metal. Intruments out of tune, bad production, the most fucked up vocals in the universe, the dude looks like Nosferatu...anyways the whole thing is great. He recently released a cd called Embittered Darkness/Isle de Morts. The Embittered Darkness half is the part I enjoy the most, it is new material and the drumming is really cool and slow paced (unlike the other half that has machine gun drumming). Anyways this is not for everyone, it is for those people that love the old punk ethos of poor musicianship but great creativity.

Excerpt of a review:

Embittered Darkness sets off with an eerie clean guitar and keyboard intro, but "Wrapped in a Cocoon Out of Harms Way" comes as a shock — the sound is so ridiculously bad. There is a thin, loud, irritating, buzzing, constant, reverbed guitar and a set of badly recorded drums with a weird stereo displacement. Yep, it's a four-track recorder, the way it's supposed to be in the "true" circles. Bass? Occasionally present, but only if you really pay attention. Vocals? Hollow, undecipherable and unashamedly loud. The songs are slow, long, repetitive, sloppily played and probably written very quickly. The lyrics are random thoughts about the human race being retarded, nature-destroying vermin soon to be annihilated by mother Earth — and if it doesn't happen, Sin Nanna will happily dig a ditch to die in.

To anyone but a few, Embittered Darkness will be an irritating, boring, headache-inducing, retarded piece of anti-music, an embodiment of everything they ever hated about black metal.

To the rest of us, it will be beautiful. An organic, natural, instinctive, evoking, overwhelming symphony of everything that we feel on those days when nothing has meaning. Bright, loud, cold, cruel and fuzzy guitar is the only thing strong enough to describe the glory of a depression coming from misanthropic isolation, taking the listener to a more natural world by simple means of creating a contrast. Just violently sweep away the banalities of everyday suffocating life rituals, and what will remain will be a chilling fantasy trip through the untamed, untouched, wintry nature — something that all good black metal should be able to do. And how could it possibly be boring with this sound? The same riff never sounds the same, the same note will sound different every time it is played — you just have to pay attention. And it's easy to. The drums are another valuable addition — with long, repeating patterns and a sense of dynamics they have a structure, but occasional on-the-spot improvisations and unequal hits bring even more of the "natural" feeling to the atmosphere. Stunning.