Ulcerate
Ulcerate should definitely contribute a few tracks when the time comes to pen the soundtrack to a man-made ice age, or some sort of similarly gnarly environmental collapse that’s left us with nothing but processed cheese and babies for food. What could be better than some evocatively bleak death metal while panic-buying canned goods and bottled water on the day when the chemical factory has turned the sky green and the river purple? New rager The Destroyers of All is a disorienting, desolate doozy, taking elements of weird post-metal to construct a sound that would be mother’s milk to ADHD Neurosis fans.
“Yeah for sure, subconsciously at least,” says drummer Jamie Saint Merat. “We’re all big fans of those bands, so it’s just kind of crept into the sound here and there. It’s really of no interest to us to become another ‘post’ band, though, but there’s a definite tonality and aesthetic that we share with bands of that ilk. Most of the stuff that fills my playlist these days is not death metal, to be honest, or at least pretty much nothing from the last decade. The kind of atmosphere I’m looking for, in metal at least, doesn’t really reside in modern death metal so much.”
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