A couple of good ideas, an incredible amount of dark atmospheres and why not a well accomplished depressive black metal running through the veins of Striborg; still these one hour and 19 minutes mammoth is just too much for me to listen more than twice, and twice because I had to review the record so it deserved a second spin even thou everything within me was screaming “No more!!!”
This is a sort of “double” album, with songs from 1 to 7 belonging to Nefaria this are the new recordings done for this release, and maybe if Sin Nanna would just have stopped there instead of coming up with this great idea that it would be nice to include the entire 1995 demo of Tragic Journey Towards The Light, this would have been such an unbearable record. It’s true and no secret that I’m not a huge fan of depressive black metal but I can find the “beauty” of the genre in bands like Drudkh and maybe a couple of Burzum productions; the problem with Striborg is the vast segments of drone black metal, and the meaningless length of some tracks.
It is true that the production is quite bad for the first segment “Nefaria” but in a sort of melancholic way it manages to accomplish that depressive, dark atmosphere that the genre is best known for.
Tracks from 8 to 16 are like I mention earlier are from the demo Tragic Journey Towards The Light; and this is were the 6 rating earned by Nefaria goes to hell, and drops to a shameful 3, the production is so bad, and when I mean bad… believe me is bad, is so bad that even if there were some nice riffs in it, or some compelling atmosphere added to it, it will have still ended up sounding like this ball of noise and distortion that really doesn’t tell you anything.
In conclusion, just listen to the first 7 tracks.
