News : Ulcerate touring Aus with Beyond Terror Beyond Grace

Evolutionary Touring presents ULCERATE (NZ)

Ulcerate from New Zealand are competitive with the best bands from anywhere. Their music combines the brutal, downtuned riffing of traditional death metal (think Immolation or Morbid Angel) with the dissonance and shifting time signatures of Gorguts and the slow, atmospheric passages reminiscent of Isis.

Ulcerate’s second full-length album “Everything is Fire” further refines and expands their work on 2007’s ‘Of Fracture and Failure’. Punishing, churning dissonance mixed with their trademarked sense of melody and textured rhythm work, coupled with a greater foray into mood and atmosphere. An entirely bleaker effort than anything ever realised by the band, guitar lines swirl and evolve into one another, percussive patterns work in and around the melody lines while the band further develops the linear style of writing they’ve come to be known for. Frantic, desolate and emotive, ‘Everything is Fire’ straddles the divide between pure chaotic density and raw, natural tones, marking a breath of fresh air in the climate of over-produced, stagnant and clinical metal.

‘Everything is Fire’ represents a band with a wholly unified musical and aesthetic direction.

ULCERATE – Australian Tour, February 2010

4th Feb 2010
Ulcerate @ The Sandringham Hotel, Sydney
w/ Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, The Riot and the Trauma and Dining In Tuscany
Tickets available at the door 8pm.

5th Feb 2010
Ulcerate @ Rosies, Brisbane
w/ Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, Excruciate and Brazen Bull
Tickets available at the door 8pm.

6th Feb 2010
Portal @ The Bald Faced Stag, Sydney
w/ Ulcerate, Beyond Terror Beyond Grace and Daemon Foetal Harvest
Tickets available through Moshtix, $23.10, 8pm.

7th Feb 2010
Ulcerate @ Chilli Lounge, Wyong
w/ Beyond Terror Beyond Grace and Overthrown
Tickets available at the door.

11th Feb 2010
Ulcerate @ The Tote, Collingwood
w/ Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, Akaname and Malignus
Tickets available at the door 8pm.

12th Feb 2010
Ulcerate @ Enigma Bar, Adelaide
w/ Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, Tzun Tzu and Altars
Tickets available at the door 8pm.

13th Feb 2010
The Ocularis Infernum @ The Arthouse, Melbourne
w/ Ulcerate, Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, Roskopp and A Million Dead Birds Laughing
Tickets available at the door 8pm.

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