It's a fantastic record but hardly made for the gym if you ask me

Album Rating: 3.0

"If you can’t pick out guitar hooks or memorable melodies from this, you just aren’t listening closely enough"



yeah, depends on your previous experience but this is about as accessible as they've sounded to me. As Starless quite rightly pointed out Transfiguration is almost "whoa this is hella catchy" levels of consonance. And that's despite the fact I've only spun this twice so far



I do somewhat agree that their formula since EiF is essentially gradual shifts on an already established sound, but then what they've built upon is their own creation. It's distinctive. The "copyists" spawned since cannot change that. Even if you just take the idea that their music is becoming more immediately gratifying / accessible and the more obvious melodicism, that in itself shows they've switched it up enough to keep things fresh



idk tl;dr - some people acting like having an established, distinctive sound is a bad thing. Whether you have personally tired of said sound is another (I can see this tbh)

Album Rating: 4.5

"but hardly made for the gym if you ask me"

yeah it's no BOLT THROWER

as much as I've listened to Ulcerate, this album still isn't hooking me and I feel no interest in continuing to try. Stare is my least listened of the last 5...

Album Rating: 4.5

If it ain't broke don't fix it

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

90% of death metal bands are formulaic af tbh



Immolation has been doing the same exact thing for over 30 years and they are still incredible

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Lol the bolt thrower mention



Love them too but they've literally written the same song 300 times

Album Rating: 4.5

They've gotten quite a bit more catchy on these last two albums, the no hooks argument is way more characteristic of older records.



In any case, fuck the need for hooks.

Album Rating: 3.5

Someone mentioned it a page or two back but the convulsing album from this year absolutely destroys this

Album Rating: 2.0

Is it dissodeath or more "regular" death metal?

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

it's disso but i almost hesitate to call it that because the riffing isn't in the usual disso style and it's got more melodic stuff and well defined song structures. gets less disso the longer the album goes on. think someone who doesn't like the genre would find it more memorable at least. it's edging this out slightly for me rn surprisingly

Album Rating: 4.5

I agree that the new Convulsing is a lot more unhinged and dark than this but I wouldn’t say it’s inherently better. They’re doing two different things and only being compared because they both loosely fit the disso-death description. Ulcerate are leaning more into the post metal side of their sound on this while the dissonance is taking more of a support role. It was kind of an even blend on Stare. Though I find it interesting how it’s too murky and chaotic for some and simultaneously not enough for others. No accounting for taste lol. This is totally their pop album.

Album Rating: 4.5

lol their pop album.

Yeah so that Convulsing scratches a different itch, for sure. And Kusangii if you only like EIF then you'll likely really dig that last Convulsing record.

Album Rating: 4.5

Most of the people that don’t like this don’t like what these guys were doing initially anyway, you don’t really need to rationalize or cope about it. Sput’s duality is the group nut interspersed with people trying way too hard to interrupt the group nut. It is what it is. We have mostly all been privy to both sides at one time or another



Tl;dr this slaps

Album Rating: 3.5

“Sput’s duality is the group nut interspersed with people trying way too hard to interrupt the group nut. It is what it is.”



It’s over, this is the best breakdown of this site I’ve ever seen.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

this entire thread is basically one giant exercise in confirmation bias (probably including myself to a degree)

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm surprised one of the many Ulcerate stans hasn't written a glowing 5 star review for this yet

Album Rating: 3.5

"It’s over, this is the best breakdown of this site I’ve ever seen."



It really fucking is XD

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Lmao I haven't heard the new convulsing but grievous is as good as ulcerates absolute worst stuff

Album Rating: 5.0

"but hardly made for the gym if you ask me"

yeah it's no BOLT THROWER

as much as I've listened to Ulcerate, this album still isn't hooking me and I feel no interest in continuing to try. Stare is my least listened of the last 5...



Yes because it’s better than Bolt Thrower lel

Album Rating: 5.0

“this entire thread is basically one giant exercise in confirmation bias (probably including myself to a degree)”

So true. Especially when it’s from a review that contrasts the majority’s opinion