03/06/2013 12:02

Ulcerate

Ulcerate enter studio to record 4th album

After signing with Relapse Records in late 2011, this week Auckland, New Zealand-based death metal horde Ulcerate will enter hometown MCA Studios to harness their anticipated fourth LP.

Ulcerate's founding drummer Jamie Saint Merat states: "After almost exactly twelve months of exhaustive work we are now in the final stages of preparation for our fourth album. This week we enter the studio to track what has become a violent, monolithic piece of work."

The yet-to-be-named fourth opus from Ulcerate follows two albums on Willowtip Records - 2009's 'Everything Is Fire' and 2011's critically-lauded 'The Destroyers of All' - not to mention their 2007 Neurotic Records debut 'Of Fracture and Failure'. The band down wave after tumultuous wave of dissonant riffing and a nonstop barrage of leveling, technical percussion with organic brute force and otherworldly discordance, topped with a purely disdainful, guttural lyrical attack. Their brutally-charged, sinister death metal bears an innovative, blackened edge resulting in a catastrophic concoction not dissimilar to Mitochondrion, Mithras, Portal, Glorior Belli and Deathspell Omega.

Ulcerate have toured with extreme metal heavyweights across all of New Zealand, Australia and heavily across Europe alongside the likes of Nile, Krisiun, Decapitated, Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Grave, Corpus Mortale, Svart Crown and others, and even assaulted North American audiences for the first time with several shows around and including 2012's annual
installment of the massive Maryland Deathfest.

Expect updates through all of 2013 as Ulcerate completes their latest work and allows it to erupt forth onto humanity later this year, in addition to taking their sonic destruction to the stage in support. New Zealanders can catch the band in Auckland and Wellington with label mates Rotten Sound this April:

4/11/2013 Rising Sun - Auckland, New Zealand w/ Rotten Sound
4/12/2013 Bodega - Wellington, New Zealand w/ Rotten Sound

Ulcerate lineup:
Paul Kelland: bass/vocals
Michael Hoggard: guitars
Jamie Saint Merat: drums

(source: Earsplit PR)