Description

Double album on black and gold bicoloured vinyls with gatefold cover and printed innersleeve.

Already with their “genre-defining” 2009 album Everything Is Fire, Ulcerate’s sound was practically fully formed, and on later albums they have simply gone on to further refine it. Naturally, there has been progression — the band have honed their instrumental chops, their playing has become tighter, and the composition and arrangements have become steadily more complex — but, at its core, the Ulcerate sound is the Ulcerate sound: it ain’t broke, and they’re not going to fix it. And what a sound it is. Sheets and shards of incredibly abrasive, harsh, dissonant guitar work pile up over a pummelling onslaught of drums and grinding bass, and vocalist/lyricist Paul Kelland roars like a wounded animal. Creating a palpable aura of fear, dread, and despair, it’s like a black hole that sucks all the light out of the room. It takes several listens to even distinguish the tracks one from another, but eventually they each start to display their own unique character. Stare Into Death And Be Still is indeed dark and gloomy, but they are superb musicians who take their sound and incorporate undeniable warped guitar banks of despair that still hold together cohesively and keep the listener interested and even amazed at how the tapestry is painstakingly sewn together. This 2020 album is pPerfect for sulking to, and figuring out just what the hell those musicians are putting in those binary codes.

Track list:
1. The Lifeless Advance
2. Exhale The Ash
3. Stare Into Death And Be Still
4. There Is No Horizon
5. Inversion
6. Visceral Ends
7. Drawn Into The Next Void
8. Dissolved Orders