Technical death metal is a genre often accused of
stagnating, so what are we supposed to do in a world where hundreds (even
thousands?) of tech death albums come out every year? Well you just have to
find the best, and fortunately Ulcerates new record Vermis is one of the greatest to hit the market in 2013. A record
that provides something unique and powerful Ulcer brings forth a new type of
technical death metal that the group has only hinted at in previous
releases. The songs represent some of
the most glorious and powerful death metal to come out in recent years.
The first thing you will notice about Vermis is that the tracks have a unique approach to death metal,
there is a certain roaring yet atonal quality, simply because of the
iconoclastic riffing styled that Ulcerate uses. Vermis is one of those records that has its own
approach to music and is immediately
identifiable. On some level this
is just reflective of Ulcerates entire discography (because, really, these guys
are among the most creative in the modern tech death scene). Ulcerate make
their own rules and are shaping their
sound by their own terms and for that Vermis
is glorious.
In conclusion, this
is an album that shows all of the potential that Ulcerate has, and the band is
really starting to fulfill it. The future seems very bright for this band as
their most iconoclastic record yet also seems to be the one that will be the
most commercially successful. In other words, today is a good day for death
metal, a day that Ulcerate has won with their glorious death metal prothalmion.
Here is an album that will go down as one of the great metal records of 2013
and going forward things should only continue to become greater for Ulcerate.
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