Review: The Coming of Genocide
Grindead Zine
Reviewed by Uffe Nylin 4.5/5
Ever thought about how the musicscene in New Zealand could be like? Well, if you have I guess you are one step ahead of me since New Zealand for some reason has been one of those countries that I never related to this kind of music, or any music at all (sorry inhabitans of New Zealand, nothing personal :)). Well, Ulcerate will definantly open up a whole new vision for me when it comes to New Zealands musiclife. This is Ulcerates second demo titled "The coming of genocide", truly a fitting title for this vicious onslaught of technical brutality. Musicians like the ones in Ulcerate sure is hard to find, everything is flawless, I would like to call this "intelligent" and technical death/grind that has tons of suprises in store for the listener since you dont really have any idea what will happen next, but although its very technical, its still catchy enough to make you remember particular parts in each song.
Categorizing Ulcerate would show not to be an easy task, but after listening and trying to analyse this is as well and honest as possible, I would like to say that this sounds like Gorguts meets Cryptopsy (the new stuff and with that I mean the music, not the vocals) meets Origin. Its technical (as I've mentioned many times in this review already), mostly fastpaced, but still shifting and never grows boring. Vocals are agressive growls, not ultra"br00tal", but personally I think it dosent have to be ultra brutal to be good.
A very cool and suprising thing with the soundproduction of this demo was that although its totally D.I.Y., its still very good, clean and professional as hell, even better than many cds that has been recorded in professional studios. One other thing that showed that these guys have class is the highly professional artwork and the booklet even containing lyrics (some kind of antichristian/apocalypse/ society related stuff). Would've been nice if more bands could use some money to get some nice coverart, booklet etc.
This album gets 4,5 out of 5. I'll do anything in my power to spread the word about Ulcerate since this band really deserves to get out there! If you are into technical and advance death/grind you should check out these guys and if not, you should at least check out the samples on their page to hear what great musicians these guys are.
