Ulcerate - The Dawn is Hollow (Official video)

Taken from the album "Cutting the Throat of God", out on June 14th 2024.

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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, Hoggard/Saint 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.

Lyrics :
Forbidden to see the evident
In fires immersive
Demolish the myth of permanence

Imprisoned by inward revulsion
The dawn is hollow
Failing to distinguish between life and death

The iconoclast’s separation from meaningless decay
This adornment trivial when we will all burn

Deception interwoven in poisoned judgement

Transfixed by illumination
Last steps to withdrawal
The dust cannot settle as disorder persists

The iconoclast’s separation from meaningless decay
This adornment trivial when we will all burn

Toward a bitter end

Reckoning with the aftermath
Of a future left wanting
What once was whole
Now shattered into pieces

Lacerations are the sign to relinquish
Foreshadow immiseration
Toward a bitter end

Unceasing dereliction
Unrelenting decline
Desolation is the arc of life’s motion

[KeithMerrow]

Hearing this band evolve over the years into THIS... has been one of the most satisfying and inspirational experiences of my musical life. Legend shit. Please never stop.

[MrRocazares]

Same planet, same time line with Ulcerate, thank you mom and dad, thank you life.

[DrMorbid]

How the hell are they dissonant and harmonious at the same time?
They evolved into something truly unique.

[benvegan]

Hoggard is off the fuckin chain on this one, waaaay underrated as a guitarist

[Hammersmashed]

The bar for extremity and brilliance this year in music has been set.

[michaeljohnston]

They really killed it with the guitar mix this time around, it really shows off how absolutely bizarre Mike Hoggard’s riffs are

[RainbowAceOfSpades]

Seem like the band is going into darker, almost black metal like, direction. The sound is like a combination of Destroyers of All and Shrine of Paralysis. It's more energetic/faster-paced and less melancholic than Stare but still maintains a heightened sense of melody that has appeared on their previous two, especially Stare. Excited to hear more.

[franlovelsimic]

The kings return and no surprise, it's monumental. St Merat refuses to play anything less than insane. Such an inspirational trio!

[kevinrichards]

Ulcerate have this tendency to make ya acknowledge whats lingering in your subconscious, masterclass

[pseudoab]

Ulcerate and Vitriol in the same year is nuts

[IvanObscura]

This band is absolute supremacy, not for anyone definitely ulcerate is true art of impressive death what they achieve with each release this is making music with the heart regardless of the recognition of others excellent without words. Greetings from Mexico

[AdamCantFathom]

This sounds like everything I could have wanted in a follow-up to "Stare Into Death And Be Still". Absolutely gorgeous track.

[jeancitoxify]

I am a simple man… If i see a new post from Ulcerate i press like immediately

[Cuervo]

Homo Sapiens can behold three things eternally: How fire burns, how water flows, and this. Lyrics down below. I was literally waiting for this the whole day. Refreshing the page many times. WHOLE DAY. Im living in this timeline, where I hear the 2:50. Fkk, that palmuting… All Hail the Void from Nicaragua.

Forbidden to see the evident
In fires immersive
Demolish the myth of permanence

Imprisoned by inward revulsion
The dawn is hollow
Failing to distinguish between life and death

The iconoclast’s separation from meaningless decay
This adornment trivial when we will all burn

Deception interwoven in poisoned judgement

Transfixed by illumination
Last steps to withdrawal
The dust cannot settle as disorder persists

The iconoclast’s separation from meaningless decay
This adornment trivial when we will all burn

Toward a bitter end

Reckoning with the aftermath
Of a future left wanting
What once was whole
Now shattered into pieces

Lacerations are the sign to relinquish
Foreshadow immiseration
Toward a bitter end

Unceasing dereliction
Unrelenting decline
Desolation is the arc of life’s motion.

[amithpandit]

Dissonant Guitar work at its best. Dissonant and emotional at the same time. Ulcerate is doing a fantastic job here.

[eggburke]

"Baby wake up, new Ulcerate just dropped"

[thraftofcaanan]

I personally love the more melodic direction they've gone, they took the already perfect formula they had and just like put 15% more melody while keeping the insane technical proficiency and it just works

[pazuzustudios]

Getting some vibes of Shrines of Paralysis 🤘🏼🔥 But something different lik always ... Ulcerate Forever❤

[aurealproportions]

I never thought Death metal would make me cry.

[Diogenes]

This one is going to be on A LOT of AOTY lists. It sure will be on mine.