Review: The Coming of Genocide
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Reviewed by Peter Johnston
Ooh, this is good! Ulcerate's demo The Coming of Genocide is very simply horrific and heavy as all fuck death metal. Managing a sound that nestles between Immolation, Nile and your favorite speeding brutal death band, this New Zealand act destroys just about everything with the four songs here. Favoring the faster paces and a penchant to use some very sour guitar lines (hence the Immolation nod), the music here is very one of a kind and refreshing, especially considering how heavy and technical it is.
Finally, despite the "demo" status of this album, the band has put it together with fantastic artwork and pristine production, fucking cheers to that!
Damn, I'm dying to see what Ulcerate does next. Pssst, Relapse, you'll want to sign these guys for as many albums as you can get!
Standout Tracks: All
[Notable tracks: The Coming of Genocide, Second Death]
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Reviewed by Kyle Huckins
Ulcerate are crushing technical death metal from New Zealand, and they are nice enough to compile their first two demos on this disc that I have here now. Allow me to break the review up accordingly.
The Coming of Genocide
This is the band's 2004 demo and it is the first four songs of the disc. The guitar tone reminds me very much of Immolation, and the vocals add to the resemblance as James Wallace sounds a lot like Ross Dolan. The songs are all nice and fast, written with the intent of crushing all in their path. A brilliant production adds to the fun as the bass needs to come through well to make this work. The drumming is quite mad too as Jaime Saint Marat is trying his best to impersonate an octopus with an amphetamine habit. They also throw in a little Decapitated just for spice. They can play and they can crush, though they prefer to do both at the same time. I can't totally fellate them due to the resemblance to Immolation being almost total, but this is a really crushing slice of death metal that I would recommend highly. I just hope on future material they distance themselves from Immolation a bit. Not too much since those records are mighty, but just a little.
2003 Demo
This is the band's first demo and it is the back half of this CD. The production isn't nearly as good on this demo, though the songs are quite murderous. The pitch of the snare sounds a bit higher which is throwing me off a little. The music is very much in the same vein as The Coming of Genocide, though it is not as polished. That said for a first demo this is truly homicidal stuff. The first song also shows off the fact that the band can actually play slower material when it so chooses. However I think they rarely see the need, just like me. My name is Kyle Huckins, and I approve this album.
They also threw some multimedia stuff on here, but it always crashes when I try to watch it in my machine so I can't tell you what the deal is with it. Sorry guys, hope the full length kills like the demos do.
