ULCERATE – Cutting the Throat of God CD (Digipak)
A breathtaking conflagration of tension, melody, and absolute existential dread. Having triumphantly cast off the suffocating shackles of purely claustrophobic dissonance on their lauded 2020 monument Stare Into Death and Be Still, New Zealand’s unorthodox death metal pioneers ULCERATE raise the bar to an untouchable standard with their mind-bending seventh album, Cutting the Throat of God. Released on CD via Debemur Morti Productions in 2024, this record is a self-sufficient universe of pitch-black sonic art.
On Cutting the Throat of God, Ulcerate acknowledges that their most potent, affecting, and terrifying material lies within the realm of dark, soaring melodies and refined, hypnotic hooks. This is not a softening of their sound, but rather an evolution into a more lethal, emotional extreme. The album masterfully fuses dizzying, avant-garde technicality with head-nodding, visceral grooves, resulting in an experience that is obscenely twisted, addictive, and utterly heart-stopping in its depth of feeling. The boundary between black and death metal dissolves completely within this vortex of pure, organic violence.
The musicianship on display is nothing short of legendary. The drumming of Jamie Saint Merat remains a masterclass of world-class percussion — an unbelievably complex, flowing torrent of syncopated rhythms and devastating power. Guitarist Michael Hoggard weaves vast, shimmering webs of melancholic, gray-sky melody and jarring, razor-sharp dissonant chords, while bassist and vocalist Paul Kelland anchors the abyss with a deep, authoritative growl that commands absolute surrender. From the crushing opening of “To Flow Through Ashen Hearts” and the stunning, hollow beauty of “The Dawn Is Hollow”, to the majestic, title-track climax, every moment of this record is crafted with terrifyingly meticulous precision.
Presented in a premium 4-panel digipak with an 8-page booklet, this physical edition is a mandatory artifact for fans of Gorguts, Deathspell Omega, Portal, and any listener seeking the absolute peak of contemporary extreme music. This is not just technical death metal; this is high-art devastation.
Product Details
- Artist: Ulcerate
- Title: Cutting the Throat of God
- Format: CD (4-panel Digipak, 8-page booklet)
- Country: New Zealand
- Label: Debemur Morti Productions
- Year: 2024
- Genre: Technical Death Metal / Avant-Garde Extreme Metal
Tracklist
- To Flow Through Ashen Hearts
- The Dawn Is Hollow
- Further Opening the Wounds
- Transfiguration In and Out of Worlds
- To See Death Just Once
- Undying as an Apparition
- Cutting the Throat of God
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