Evil Dr. Smith: The joke is funny for a moment, but after almost twenty demos, albums and DVDs in hardly five years I can’t say it’s funny anymore. I already stopped laughing after one album by the way, so this new album from the Tasmanian panda was received with great fear. Fear for boring black metal crap that is, not fear for fearful music. I love scary, twisted and disturbing music. But my fear became justified. What a scandalous lack of tension and inspiration! The meant dismal atmosphere is just washed-out dreadfulness and a demonstration in a lack of talent. And this goes on and on and on for more than an hour, the ultimate boring-trip.
There were only two brief moments that woke me up, and both of them are at the very end of the album (yes, I actually listened to the album from the beginning to the end, which is an achievement of Olympic proportions). The first one are the pleasant eerie vocals at the end of the extremely long ‘Meandering In Sorrow’ (15 minutes), which sound really like a screeching crow. The other one is the short closing song ‘Transfiguration Of Terror’, where Striborg finally understand how to sound scary and disturbing and comes up with a noisy track · la Merzbow-light. But furthermore it’s indolent, mostly mid tempo black metal minimalism with teeth grinding vocals and an occasional, but utterly boring ambient soundscape. Every Striborg release on Displeased Records is accompanied by a letter that tells us “No contact. No interviews.” I like to add “No albums” to this. Sod off, loser!
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