So...here's another one. Another band that sounds like a Armageddon,
but, centralized and controlled. Like a pile of anvils falling off Mount
Fuji onto a giant sack of kittens. Ulcerate is a new band to me. When I say that, I mean that I know they've been around for over a decade, but, this is the first thing I've heard from them and I am an idiot for not hearing them sooner.
Their
sound is very refreshing. What I enjoy the most about this band is that
it sounds like, to me, they take a great deal of influence from two
things: the sludgier, slower, down-tuned Morbid Angel songs (God of
Emptiness, Where the Slime Live, etc), and I could hear a decent amount
of influence from veteran doomy-death metal band, Demelich. Not only
this, but, Ulcerate's riffage is very erratic and unconventional. Lots
of random time signatures, jazzy interludes and downright randomness,
without ever losing the blackest-of-midnight undertone throughout the
entire record. This is an undeniably heavy, genre-bending, mind-fuck of a
release.
