This is my second Striborg post thus far, and a deserving one at that. In particular, I am making an effort to post this with the artwork so that you can download the version that has the bonus track, "Lurking the Murky Damp Forest, a fifteen minute excursion into the name of the title itself and to a T. That song has accompanied me on a handful of memorable journeys through the heart of the wet and swampy woods. With Summer approaching and nice weather on the horizon, I know for certain I will eventually be listening to that track while strolling through some awe inspiring natural beauty. The style as a whole on this album is considerably repetitive and concentrated on the ethereal, no less, as this is a Striborg album after all. This Tasmanian black metal warrior maintains a very steady conceptual formula of ghosts, misanthropy, the forest, and night, as well as some depressive and stranger elements featured via synth usage. Overall Mysterious Semblance stands out as one of Striborg's finer works, as he produces so much and so frequently only a handful can be recognized as his best, this is one of those. The drawing was done by his wife Phaedra, click on the image to enlarge it, as it absolutely compliments the audio.
1. A Sour Pale Ghostly Dawn
2. Mysterious Semblance of Spectral Trees
3. Dark Storm Brooding, Lightning in the South
4. Looming Black Apparition
5. The Ghostly Pallid Hand of Fear
6. As Sad as a Cemetery in the Winter Darkness
7. The Screaming Winds
8. Lurking the Murky Damp Forest
Mysterious Semblance
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