Teeth Of The Divine
New Zealand’s Ulcerate set the bar pretty high for themselves with 2009′s Everything is Fire, a monstrous slab of churning, atonal death metal that ended up on many 2009 year end lists, mine included. How would they respond?
The album title says it all.
Even though the formula is the same as on Everything is Fire–that’s to say Immolation styled death metal channeled...Read More
Grind And Punishment
Of all the tricks in a film director’s repertoire, the one I probably find most engrossing is the long tracking shot. The long take is so dramatically compelling and the long, unbroken takes force actors to really perform off each other in a way that’s more organic than Hollywood’s insistence on two second scenes. When you mention great long takes, most people will point to...Read More
Chronicles Of Chaos
I know there can be no end point to the spectrum of accessibility. There would be no band that could lay claim to the heaviest or most brutal act in present history. Despite these obvious conclusions, there has to be at least an area which resides far from everyone else. A space for music you occasionally look up in amazement wondering how you got to this point in your aesthetics. There must be a...Read More
Apochs
When it comes to Brutal Death Metal bands, one band name that is typically passed up, mostly due to many not knowing who they are, is the act Ulcerate. The band has issued two full-lengths and a compilation collecting both of their demos. Originally formed back in 2000 and hailing from New Zealand, this is a group that hasn't quite received the recognition they deserved, especially given the more...Read More
Blabbermouth
Critics seem to adore ULCERATE. Thus far I've paid little attention to the New Zealand band's albums. Having lined up "The Destroyers Of All" for review, I decided I'd give it multiple attentive listens and make a determination of the act's worth to the world of death metal. And multiple listens is what it took since the first couple left me unmoved. The very first impressions had me...Read More
Metal Army America
For every cliché we use to describe the many various sub-genres of metal, it’s hard to pick one to describe ULCERATE. Yeah, brutal, violent, guttural, unforgiving and punishing all apply, so go ahead and check those off. But they don’t tell the whole story. They don’t get into the meat of the New Zealand trio’s music, which is ambitious and sprawling enough that it...Read More
Metal Sucks
Kiwi death/drone trio pulverizes senses without guitar solos, but with moody textures, killer drumming, and instru-metal passages that make the Neur-Isis Peliclones shit their nests.Read More
SLUG Magazine
Your standard death metal is all well and good, but bands like Ulcerate are needed as extreme metal evolves constantly—Bands that have the ability to look forward instead of back are few and far between. New Zealand’s Ulcerate’s third full-length album The Destroyers of All offers up a musical experience that doesn’t feel like a rehashing of the classic death metal greats....Read More
Stereokiller
I'll be honest, it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I finally got around to listening to Ulcerate. I had heard the name thrown around but wasn't proactive in checking them out. When I finally got around to it, I was pretty impressed.
I won't come as saying that I'm some sort of expert on them because I'm pretty far from it but what I've heard is enough to keep me interested in their unique...Read More