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SPIRITUAL CATHARSIS by Striborg (2007)

This is a re-release of an original 2004 CD, which was limited to 500 copies, by the elusive solo black metal artist Sin Nanna (aka Striborg), who lives near Hobart, Tasmania.  It contains the sludgy instrumental track Dicksonia Antartica, which led us to the reference books.  Dicksonia Antarctica is also known as the Soft Tree Fern or Tasmanian Tree Fern and may be the best known of all the tree ferns.  It is native to southeastern Australia and Tasmania, but has also been grown in Britain for years and is found in western North America and is reported on a few subantarctic islands.  It was named in 1807 after James Dickson, a Scottish nurseryman and “Antarctica” refers to “southern.”  In a review on his record company’s web site with online magazine Terrorizer, the artist says that his only “spiritual connection lies within Gaia… The true spirit of Mother Nature is my only source of enlightenment and can only be felt when free of mankind.  And I do not care if anybody thinks I’m being politically or ecologically incorrect as this is the way I perceive the world on a spiritual level.”  The CD liner notes introduce the track with “Majestic plants among the moss and water, Towering towards the mysterious sky, Metres of bear-like trunks braying over the rocks upon my tread...Many ferns grow in this wilderness, Untouched land of magic proportions, Only the creatures of nature dwell here, Native to its glorious land.”  This heavy metal track has succeeded admirably to put us in the frame of mind of a steamy, smoldering, prehistoric Gondwana/Pangaea supercontinent, to thoughts about a tropical Antarctica, Antarctic dinosaurs, Glossopteris fossils and whatever else may be lying preserved and hidden for countless eons beneath the horrendous weight of interminable miles of compressed ice, waiting to unleash its secrets with the onslaught of Global Warming.  Whew!  Displeased Records D-00171; www.displeasedrecords.com; www.myspace.com/striborg

 

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