--- title: "Striborg" type: "MusicGroup" url: "https://themetalnet.com/band/striborg" genre: "Black Metal" country: "Australia" formed: 1997 --- # Striborg **Striborg** is a black metal band, from Australia, active 1997 to present. Striborg is a black metal / ambient project of Australian musician Russell Menzies. The project first began in 1994 under the name Kathaaria and during this time the stage name "Vvelkaarn" was used. The name Kathaaria was adapted from a Darkthrone song titled "Kathaarian Life Code". Biography source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striborg ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Name | Striborg | | Genre | Black Metal | | Parent genre | Black Metal | | Origin | Australia | | Formed | 1997 | | Releases in catalog | 42 | ## Genres [Black Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/black-metal) ## Discography | Year | Release | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | 1997 | [Striborg / Veil of Darkness](https://themetalnet.com/album/d3a90bce-9edf-4be0-b8af-12553dfc8eb3) | Album | | 1998 | [Misanthropic Isolation](https://themetalnet.com/album/1e1bd264-12c7-4fc2-b200-4c7343411814) | Album | | 2001 | [In the Heart of the Rainforest](https://themetalnet.com/album/e71579f3-c1cd-41c6-8188-92c37b3cd164) | Album | | 2004 | [Mysterious Semblance](https://themetalnet.com/album/a3e3439e-5a2d-368c-9457-cc51dc5143d7) | Album | | 2004 | [Spiritual Catharsis](https://themetalnet.com/album/d82af9a6-317a-39c4-8396-ff1e6146c4ce) | Album | | 2005 | [Black Desolate Winter / Depressive Hibernation](https://themetalnet.com/album/8a4a5882-f0f2-31de-b96f-1f05e8501a04) | Album | | 2005 | [Trepidation](https://themetalnet.com/album/b0fc8779-4d4b-356f-8075-a0c36c031aed) | Album | | 2006 | [Embittered Darkness / Isle de Morts](https://themetalnet.com/album/c6d69218-a6dc-3cfd-9317-ae23ec0ae1e1) | Album | | 2007 | [Ghostwoodlands](https://themetalnet.com/album/79a9704a-71fd-3b32-a547-018b6935dd48) | Album | | 2007 | [Nefaria / A Tragic Journey Towards the Light](https://themetalnet.com/album/21ff1b48-3503-3a35-98d4-273a676666ff) | Album | | 2007 | [Scurshahor / Striborg](https://themetalnet.com/album/963be7fc-c375-31f6-8dc1-c5cb5d9dd454) | EP | | 2007 | [Solitude](https://themetalnet.com/album/40c9c553-1e87-3f66-ac02-dfe8145d0605) | Album | | 2008 | [Autumnal Melancholy](https://themetalnet.com/album/6c08b63c-557a-382d-bdbe-f3a9bdd3dbb7) | Album | | 2008 | [The Foreboding Silence](https://themetalnet.com/album/0b084505-5746-4579-be03-f20f00fcc8e0) | Album | | 2009 | [Florestas de Perpétua Solidão](https://themetalnet.com/album/2cec599c-1cb8-452e-8354-0e1d9868147c) | EP | | 2009 | [Perceiving the World With Hate](https://themetalnet.com/album/a3507b16-7e52-4168-a0b6-51722dfb5832) | Album | | 2009 | [Southwest Passage](https://themetalnet.com/album/88933dce-e2b9-4dfe-929c-2b3b0f63b142) | Album | | 2010 | [Vardan / Striborg](https://themetalnet.com/album/b8fb1669-723a-4c19-96bd-6302d53dca0e) | EP | | 2015 | [This Suffocating Existence](https://themetalnet.com/album/3838b17f-3192-4cf9-b413-bca4edf222cf) | Album | | 2016 | [Spiritual Deprivation](https://themetalnet.com/album/3f2b5d3e-fd23-49d0-b819-627d5998d664) | Album | | 2017 | [A Procession of Lost Souls](https://themetalnet.com/album/11166e2e-9fad-47b5-b682-df895c335445) | Album | | 2017 | [Instrumental Trans-Communication](https://themetalnet.com/album/ff18f744-1eba-4fcb-8556-b1c4f818d707) | Album | | 2018 | [Blackwave](https://themetalnet.com/album/2a3d38d2-d960-4771-8bce-dba099b7f5b3) | Album | | 2018 | [Extended Breakdown](https://themetalnet.com/album/6b591970-e8cc-4c68-ab8d-d96e8d1b9667) | Album | | 2018 | [Introverted Transparency](https://themetalnet.com/album/6acd3168-e0b3-469b-82f2-2ea8968bcffc) | EP | | 2018 | [One with the Night / Beyond the Shadow of Silence](https://themetalnet.com/album/188767a9-5732-4050-a9ac-28e25d903a0b) | EP | | 2018 | [Spectral Shadows](https://themetalnet.com/album/e3956b6f-014a-457f-8a31-e8024b9cf91b) | Album | | 2019 | [An Existential Burden](https://themetalnet.com/album/741a00b9-ceb0-4c85-9f6f-73c98e78f6e6) | Album | | 2019 | [In Deep Contemplation](https://themetalnet.com/album/424830c4-1242-4a07-9436-3e15bb414f5f) | Album | | 2019 | [Leave the World Behind](https://themetalnet.com/album/c5713600-b75c-48ce-86ba-00033f4a2f27) | Album | | 2019 | [Striborg / Bosc Fosc / Drakonhail](https://themetalnet.com/album/e0c98cef-7452-408d-8deb-eca4a6fe0e07) | Album | | 2020 | [Prisoners of the Solar System](https://themetalnet.com/album/bdfe88e2-79f0-4dd3-a40b-8776646e3569) | Album | | 2020 | [The Concealed Torment](https://themetalnet.com/album/7672739f-4077-4e00-a7b2-fa636e981c5f) | EP | | 2020 | [The Red Light Is Far Away](https://themetalnet.com/album/ac66c8f1-cd68-40ca-82f7-69026f0c50e1) | Album | | 2020 | [Unknown Entities](https://themetalnet.com/album/56a2bcfa-4682-4bf1-af2c-168e57059e4c) | Album | | 2022 | [Deep in the Dark Abyss](https://themetalnet.com/album/255b5c81-ff85-4fb6-92c8-e1325a65e846) | EP | | 2022 | [Lost in Between Worlds](https://themetalnet.com/album/5c59b753-8097-4ed4-bd47-f29b8baa5189) | Album | | 2022 | [The Fields of Rapacious Blood](https://themetalnet.com/album/b7550937-e2c4-48d3-a7d1-4c6e13dbdb01) | EP | | 2022 | [The Shadow People](https://themetalnet.com/album/f8dd38c9-99f4-4878-b1a0-19975db7ef2a) | EP | | 2022 | [The Sombre Forests](https://themetalnet.com/album/597d4d87-0802-4a0d-99ea-1cdd358c9ec8) | EP | | 2022 | [The Uncanny Valley](https://themetalnet.com/album/1a57866f-4736-4578-ab46-1aa57b35ded2) | EP | | 2022 | [Through the Melancholy Tunnel of Despair](https://themetalnet.com/album/30739036-49ed-4443-8978-463a7c7891df) | Album | ## Related bands - [Xasthur](https://themetalnet.com/band/xasthur) (listened together) - [Leviathan](https://themetalnet.com/band/leviathan-4ab7ef36) (listened together) - [Darkthrone](https://themetalnet.com/band/darkthrone) (listened together) - [Mayhem](https://themetalnet.com/band/mayhem) (listened together) - [Lunar Aurora](https://themetalnet.com/band/lunar-aurora) (listened together) - [Velvet Cacoon](https://themetalnet.com/band/velvet-cacoon) (listened together) - [Paysage d’Hiver](https://themetalnet.com/band/paysage-d-hiver) (listened together) - [Blut aus Nord](https://themetalnet.com/band/blut-aus-nord) (listened together) - [Burzum](https://themetalnet.com/band/burzum) (listened together) - [Wolves in the Throne Room](https://themetalnet.com/band/wolves-in-the-throne-room) (listened together) - [Lurker of Chalice](https://themetalnet.com/band/lurker-of-chalice) (listened together) - [I Shalt Become](https://themetalnet.com/band/i-shalt-become) (listened together) ## Official and external links - metal archives: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Striborg/16746 - bandcamp: https://striborg.bandcamp.com/ --- Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/band/striborg](https://themetalnet.com/band/striborg). 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