
Striborg - Perceiving The World with Hate [Displeased Records - 2009]Perceiving The World with Hate is the next grim yet creative sonic chapter in Striborg’s distinctive take on the black metal genre, it shows Striborg repeating old tricks effectively but adding in a few new ones to the blacked pot too. Things start of in fine bleak ‘n’ crawling fashion with the opening track The Dark Forest's Embrace which starts out with slow strummed and fuzzed blacked riff drone. And through the drums kick in soon and the pace goes up here & there – it’s mostly kept fairly slow and shimmering with Striborg from time to time build-up this wonderful dense evil haze of draining guitar tone, feedback and synth airlessness. Later on with Origin Of Paranormal Possibilities we find a grim, hypnotic and lengthy Striborg synth dread track(which were sadly rather missing from his last album Foreboding Silence) and it’s another very effective, haunting track with blacked synth tone drilling right into your mind as the level of grim sustain and drift weigh down on you like a blacked led coffin. When The Moon And The Earth Collide Into The Sun finds Striborg going for an all out noise track with an looping out and building up of roaring blacked feedback tone- very nicely tortures-I like to see what else he can do in a straight out noise form. Perceiving The World with Hate is another great Striborg album, that thankfully cuts out some of the more dubious shorter film samples like tracks that cluttered up his last album Foreboding Silence- making this a creative, varied and grim enjoyable ride from start to finish      Roger Batty
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