Ulcerate

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风格: #死亡金属　#重金属　#技术死亡金属
地区: New Zealand 新西兰

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Band Members Paul Kelland - Bass/Vocals

Michael Hoggard - Guitars

Oliver Goater - Guitars

Jamie Saint Merat - Drums

Sounds Like Pitch black

Record Label Willowtip Records, Candlelight Records, Deepsend Records

reality and not some inescapable bone-rattling fiend. Befriending the reaper is a matter of balancing darkness with the over-emphasized light of empathy for the sake of revealing the full dynamic range of hues available to the human mind, anything less is a fool’s self-obsessed delusion of immortality and/or dreadful self importance. Live with death in mind and life’s shape malleable in hand — Fine-tuning the effector within is as much ‘purpose’ as any person could ask among the living and with time an inevitable definition will arrive for the aching, aimless ‘self’. Auckland, New Zealand based death metal trio Ulcerate would find life-and-death affirming definition in the tides of the unorthodox roughly a decade into their efforts by way of loosening the rigidity of their technical death metal beginnings and steeping within the blackened tea of future-consciousness. Having arrived upon distinction and importance a decade ago, a venerated being since, it’d take some years of meditation before the waves of this sixth full-length, ‘Stare Into Death and Be Still’, would become its mountainous presence today. The potent essence of Ulcerate is yet a dark liquid force freed of all confining forces on this masterfully achieved hour-long pour, unarguably a new high point within their already considerable body of work.

To have loved the expansive universe of all forms of extreme metal two decades ago and felt great frustration for the boxed-in limitations of orthodoxy in the late 90’s bears a great appreciation for what musicians are doing today, performing every possible splicing of sub-genre a thousand times over in search of fleeting golden moments. The alchemy of it all is akin to observing a visualization of a particle physics lecture on LSD where the nature of all things is minimized for perspective and then expanded to all known things, a revelation that is nigh religious in application. Where Ulcerate fits into these last two decades is certainly both a catalyst and folded creation, an early 2000’s technical death metal band that’d come into broader view just beyond innovations from tail-end Gorguts (see: ‘From Wisdom to Hate’), Immolation‘s mind-bending ‘Unholy Cult’, and Portal‘s ahead of its time ‘Seepia‘. Nothing so profound would come from Ulcerate just yet as their first demo (‘The Coming of Genocide‘, 2004) was current in style but not yet so profoundly experimental, nor was their debut full-length (‘Of Fracture and Failure‘, 2007) which felt entirely solid but unexceptional for its time. For the nostalgic fellow such as myself that debut is the kind of technical death metal I can still easily tuck into today and be sated by its brutal-yet-performative strokes. At this point in time Deathspell Omega would forever alter the extreme metal landscape with their fourth album ‘Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum‘ and those techniques continue to permeate and influence both black and death metal worlds exponentially since, including Ulcerate.

The lifecode that would serve the then formally solidified trio with purpose was established on their second album (‘Everything is Fire‘, 2009) where technique, distinction, atmosphere, and contemplative nihilistic headspace all arrived as a breakthrough moment. That second album tends to be the agreed upon ‘classic’ from Ulcerate’s discography but I’d suggest that it was merely a step in the right direction, the right modus but not yet the complete picture of their evolution. It’d be the next album (‘The Destroyers of All‘, 2011) where discordant runs, technical blackened death guitar runs, and a shedding of aging technical death metal battery would actualize Ulcerate‘s sonic identity. That moment or, point of evolution, is most related to what ‘Stare Into Death and Be Still’ is doing today as a redirection back to more evocative, confident pieces that aren’t as bloated and insistently challenging as their recent two album run on Relapse with ‘Vermis‘ (2013) and ‘Shrines of Paralysis‘ (2016).

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