03/15/2024 08:17

Ulcerate

Ulcerate: New album 'Cutting the Throat of God' coming in June

Ulcerate, the New Zealand trio who Decibel Magazine rightly hailed as "one of the most forward-thinking death metal bands around," return with their highly anticipated new album, 'Cutting the Throat of God', on June 14th, 2024, via Debemur Morti Productions.

Track listing:
1. To Flow through Ashen Hearts (07:07)
2. The Dawn Is Hollow (07:32)
3. Further Opening the Wounds (07:57)
4. Transfiguration in and out of Worlds (08:32)
5. To See Death just once (08:23)
6. Undying as an Apparition (09:33)
7. Cutting the Throat of God (08:42)

After triumphantly casting off the shackles of claustrophobic dissonance on 2020's lauded 'Stare into Death and Be Still', New Zealand unorthodox death metal legends Ulcerate up the ante even further with mind-bending 7th album 'Cutting the Throat of God'.

An acknowledgement that the band's most powerful and affecting material leans to the melodic side, this refined and hook-laden new record is a self-sufficient universe unto itself, a conflagration of inventively visceral death/black metal where dizzying experimentation meets head-nodding abandon - obscenely twisted and addictive, heart-stopping in its depth of feeling.

After a quarter-century of playing music together, Michael Hoggard & JamieSaint Merat are cemented as one of the strongest guitar-percussion combinations in extreme metal, and their music has evolved organically into something completely its own. The most well-produced Ulcerate record to date, 'Cutting the Throat of God' is filled with peerless rhythms, the band's smoothest transitions, most compelling phrasing, and truly staggering riffage. The exhilarating, liquescent flow is topped off by a destructively dynamic performance from vocalist/lyricist Paul Kelland.

'Cutting the Throat of God' explores a cohesive lyrical theme centered around the rupture of morality, the delicate boundary between depravity and extremity, and the irreversible descent into darkness.

A first offering from the seven-song album, 'The Dawn Is Hollow', is now available, accompanied by a video from visionary artist Dehn Sora (Amenra, Blut Aus Nord, Throane):

The album was recorded between September and December 2023. Drummer Jamie Saint Merat took care of recording, mixing and all visuals. Magnus Lindberg, known for his work with Cult Of Luna, Russian Circles and Trubulation, handled the mastering.

'Cutting the Throat of God' will be available on CD, vinyl, and as digital. Accompanying the launch are specially designed t-shirts (men/women) and hoodies. Pre-orders are possible via our EU, US (no women shirts) and Bandcamp shops.

(source: Debemur Morti Productions)