Every Ulcerate Song Ranked
Had to happen at some point |
| 49 |  | Ulcerate
Demo 2003
Smash the Deceitful |
| 48 | | Ulcerate
Demo 2003
Ulceration |
| 47 |  | Ulcerate
The Coming of Genocide
Scorn the Dethroned |
| 46 | | Ulcerate
Demo 2003
Burnt Offering |
| 45 | | Ulcerate
The Coming of Genocide
Unhallowed Ascension |
| 44 | | Ulcerate
Demo 2003
Subversive Supremacy |
| 43 |  | Ulcerate
Vermis
Fall to Opprobrium - Just a bare-bones interlude but it does its job. |
| 42 | | Ulcerate
The Coming of Genocide
The Coming of Genocide |
| 41 |  | Ulcerate
Of Fracture and Failure
Failure |
| 40 | | Ulcerate
The Coming of Genocide
Second Death |
| 39 | | Ulcerate
Of Fracture and Failure
Becoming the Lycanthrope |
| 38 | | Ulcerate
Vermis
Odium |
| 37 | | Ulcerate
Of Fracture and Failure
Ad Nauseam |
| 36 | | Ulcerate
Of Fracture and Failure
Defaeco |
| 35 | | Ulcerate
Vermis
Weight of Emptiness - Uncharacteristically tame for Ulcerate, especially at this stage in their career, but still rules face. |
| 34 | | Ulcerate
Of Fracture and Failure
The Coming of Genocide (re-recording) |
| 33 | | Ulcerate
Of Fracture and Failure
The Mask of Satyr |
| 32 |  | Ulcerate
The Destroyers of All
Dead Oceans |
| 31 | | Ulcerate
Of Fracture and Failure
Martyr of The Soil |
| 30 |  | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
Shrines of Paralysis - This song being the weakest on its respective album by quite a margin just shows how strong the rest of the material was. |
| 29 | | Ulcerate
Of Fracture and Failure
Praise and Negation |
| 28 | | Ulcerate
Vermis
Clutching Revulsion |
| 27 | | Ulcerate
The Destroyers of All
The Hollow Idols |
| 26 | | Ulcerate
Vermis
Cessation |
| 25 | | Ulcerate
Of Fracture and Failure
To Fell Goliath - Very underrated, being the best track on Ulcerate's debut. It's not overly ambitious but it's incredibly intense and has some phrases and voicing the likeness of which would go on to become a mainstay in Hoggard's guitar work. |
| 24 | | Ulcerate
The Destroyers of All
Beneath - Very free-flowing and dynamic. As a stand alone song, it's bettered by quite a few from Destroyers, but its placement in the album was perfect. |
| 23 | | Ulcerate
Vermis
Confronting Entropy |
| 22 | | Ulcerate
The Destroyers of All
The Destroyers of All - Some of its power is stolen by the preceding "Omens" but it's still a closer that 99% of metal bands wish they could write. |
| 21 | | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
There Are No Saviours |
| 20 | | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
Bow To Spite - Easily the best interlude the band's ever recorded. Molten slabs of bass and spooky atmospherics that avoid sounding gimmicky (looking at you, Dodecahedron). |
| 19 | | Ulcerate
Vermis
Await Rescission |
| 18 |  | Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
Tyranny - Feels completely wrong describing this as the "weakest" song on Everything is Fire so I'll just say it's only better than 99.8% of DM as opposed to 99.9-100. |
| 17 | | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
End the Hope - Curiously solemn closer with what is probably the closest Hoggard's gotten to a guitar solo since their pre-Of Fracture days. |
| 16 | | Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
The Earth at its Knees |
| 15 | | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
Yield to Naught - First half of this song contains some of the most seamless yet stupefying transitions I've ever heard. |
| 14 | | Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
Caecus - The first Ulcerate song to truly hook me. The contrast between the intense first sequence and the ~calm~ middle bit is handled beautifully. |
| 13 | | Ulcerate
Vermis
Vermis - Doesn't really count as an opener but I still think of it as one. Not too sure how to describe the riff towards the end (you know which one) but it slaps. |
| 12 | | Ulcerate
The Destroyers of All
Cold Becoming |
| 11 | | Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
Drown Within - That thunderous, marching riff at the start may as well be iconic at this point. As much as everyone likes to rave about it there are a good 3 or 4 riffs in this song that are up there with Ulcerate's best ever, particularly the one at 3:48. |
| 10 | | Ulcerate
The Destroyers of All
Burning Skies - Usually just depended on the day but this and Drown Within would constantly swap places as my favourite Ulcerate opener. The climax in the middle is just godly and I hope they have more moments like that in future albums. |
| 9 | | Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
Soullessness Embraced - Contains one of the few "normal" riffs in the entire album at the end, and the way they build up to it so as to make the whole thing stylistically cohesive boggles the mind. |
| 8 | | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
Chasm of Fire - One of the best examples of Ulcerate's "variations-on-a-theme" approach to song-writing. |
| 7 | | Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
We Are Nil - The breakdown at the end never fails to ruin my face. |
| 6 | | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
Abrogation - My new favourite Ulcerate opener. Toys around with motifs for the majority of its duration, constantly hinting at something cataclysmic, then it just hits you with all manners of dissonant, pummeling fuckery. |
| 5 | | Ulcerate
Vermis
The Imperious Weak - Considering the widespread idea that Vermis is the weakest of Ulcerate's last 4 albums, I guess you could consider this song the diamond the rough. Once again, its in the transitions where the band truly shines (haha), most notably during the one around two minutes in which never fails to induce goosebumps. |
| 4 | | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
Extinguished Light - When this song dropped as a single, the idea of there potentially being better songs on the album almost had me convulsing in anticipation. Alas, it turned out to be my favourite, albeit with some stiff competition. I could listen to the riff 4 minutes in for days, but then I'd be missing out on the ebb-and-flow of the last 4 minutes. An increased presence of melody was also a welcomed addition to Ulcerate's sound after the inhumanely stern Vermis. |
| 3 | | Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
Everything is Fire - There's nothing I can say about this song that hasn't already been said. Pretty much a mainstay of Ulcerate's live performances for obvious reasons, ending on probably the most hair-raising sequence they've done to this day. |
| 2 | | Ulcerate
The Destroyers of All
Omens - The ultimate representation of Ulcerate's elongated song-writing. Pretty much every aspect of this song is perfect: the delicate yet harrowing guitar drones at the start, the larger-than-life riff that breaks the quiet, JSM's sense of pacing behind the kit, the overall atmosphere and the production, etc. |
| 1 | | Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
Withered and Obsolete - Not too sure if I'd call this my favourite song of all time; there are far too many different styles of music, far too many things I look for, want to feel, yada-yada, for me to narrow it all down to a tech-death song from 2009. But as far as metal is concerned - and perhaps heavy, abrasive music at large - Withered and Obsolete has no equal. But for a grand total of 14 seconds of respite in the first two minutes, the whole thing is just unceasing in its intensity. The explosion or riffs and drum rolls just after the aforementioned ceasefire is probably my all-time favourite moment in metal, which says a hell of a lot because there isn't one point here which isn't impeccable. I could go on for days but you probably just scrolled right through the list to see what my #1 was and didn't even read this but if you did then thank you |
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