ULCERATE – cutting the throat of god – VINYL 2xLP (clear and red swirl)

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.