My Chemical Romance s Gerard Way may be the unofficial king of the emos, but he s also evidently a fan of underground Tasmanian black metal, having expressed interest in a video posted by Striborg mastermind Sin Nanna (real name Russell Menzies) that shows the musician rave-dancing in light-up sneakers, discharging black metal howls over coldwave beats.
Striborg, a prolific, single-person entity from Maydena, Tasmania in Australia, was founded in 1997 with a focus on ambient, lo-fi black metal before later adopting a blackwave style a coldwave-oriented sound that retained some of black metal s hallmarks. The band was also one of three artists to be featured in Noisey s