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Ulcerate
Ulcerate is a New Zealand-based extreme metal band formed by guitarist Michael Hoggard and drummer Jamie Saint Merat in 2000. The band have released six studio albums to date. The band have been featured in numerous articles as one of New Zealand's most prominent extreme metal acts, have toured widely across North America and Europe, and have been compared favourably to bands such as Neurosis and Gorguts. The band's sound has been described as "nauseating, disorienting and gleefully disharmonic", and is characterised by extremely technical death metal with extensive use of dissonance, time signature changes, and complex song structures. History Early days (2000–2005) The core membership of Ulcerate, including Jamie Saint Merat, Michael Hoggard and Mark Seeney, formed in 2000 under the name "Bloodwreath". In early 2002, guitarist Jared Commerer and vocalist James Wallace were added to the line-up while Seeney departed. The band began writing material for its debut record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrines Of Paralysis
''Shrines of Paralysis'' is the fifth studio album by New Zealand death metal band Ulcerate. The album was released on October 28, 2016, through Relapse Records. The album was officially announced on June 27, 2016, with the band confirming that they would be touring North America in support of the album in late 2016 with Phobocosm and Zhrine, including a show at the Saint Vitus bar in New York City. On August 23, 2016, the release date for the album was confirmed for October 28, 2016 and the band began streaming the album's first single, 'Extinguished Light'. On its release, the album received positive reviews from music critics, and later featured on a number of end-of-year lists. Musical style and writing Jamie Saint Merat has explained that the album title represents and represents the species’ apathy and inabilities in dealing with self-imposed catastrophe until it’s beyond the point of reconciliation. In general, the lyrics speak of mankind’s arrogance and narcissis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everything Is Fire
''Everything Is Fire'' is the second full-length album by New Zealand death metal band Ulcerate. It was released on April 7, 2009 through Willowtip Records to very positive reviews, and has been described by Roadburn as "genre-defining". Lyrically, the album has been described as tackling themes such as "the end of mankind, the insignificance of our existence and the resumption of a natural order, free of humanity’s tyranny, greed and bloodlust." Willowtip Records issued the album on vinyl for the first time in January 2016 on limited edition gatefold vinyl. Background ''Everything Is Fire'' is the first Ulcerate album not to feature Ben Read on vocals, with bassist Paul Kelland taking on vocal duties. In an interview with ''Metalnews.de'', Jamie Saint Merat explained that "We wanted a return to the darker vocal approach that we originally started the band with. Prior to 'Of Fracture and Failure' we were keen to try a more varied vocal assault, and Ben certainly fitted that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vermis (2013 Album)
''Vermis'' is the fourth full-length album by New Zealand death metal band Ulcerate. It was released on September 13, 2013, through Relapse Records to positive reviews. It is the first album by Ulcerate to be released through Relapse. Musical style and writing While the band has been noted for its use of dissonance, drummer Jamie Saint Merat countered that "dissonance for dissonance’s sake is extremely fatiguing". Given this, Merat said that ''Vermis'' uses melody in a "weird and unsettling" way to create "a tangible amount of tension and release". Merat further noted that the band made a conscious decision with ''Vermis'' to bring back "a level of unpredictability we've always had in the past" due to the feeling that the previous album, '' The Destroyers of All'', "came out a little too fluid on the whole". According to Merat, ''Vermis'' uses the metaphor of invertebrate animal species to explore "the over-arching theme of spinelessness ndoppression". Merat explained tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Destroyers Of All
''The Destroyers of All'' is the third full-length album by New Zealand death metal band Ulcerate. It was released on January 25, 2011 through Willowtip Records to positive reviews by critics. A limited edition gatefold vinyl version was issued on November 7, 2012. Musical style and writing Explaining the theme behind the album and the meaning of the title, Jamie Saint Merat explained that the lyrics are a commentary on "where we are currently, that as a species we’re fairly blindly arrogant, and it's lead '' ic' to some f***ing catastrophic events and actions that in hindsight could easily have been prevented. We exist outside of nature due to our heightened consciousness and awareness - we’re the first species in the history of the planet to really disrupt the flow of the food-chain, and we’re obviously all starting to feel the impact of that now. So the destroyers of all are ourselves, for better or worse." In an interview with ''Teeth of the Divine'', he further expl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Of Fracture And Failure
''Of Fracture and Failure'' is the debut full-length album by New Zealand death metal band Ulcerate. The album was released in February 2007 through Neurotic Records Neurotic Records is an independent extreme metal record label specialising predominantly in death metal, operating out of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Founded in late 2003 by Ruud Lemmen, who was initially responsible for European distribution for ... in partnership with Willowtip Records, with whom the band would later sign. Written over a two-year period, the album was recorded in April 2006 at Retractile Audio and mastered by Alan Douches at West Side Music, New York City, USA. It is the only album to feature Ben Read ( 8 Foot Sativa, The Mark of Man) on vocals before bassist Paul Kelland took over vocal duties in 2009. Jamie Saint Merat has said that the band "set out from the beginning of writing to come up with a sound bordering on chaos and very suffocating in terms of breathing space (or lack thereof). So th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solace Of Requiem
Solace of Requiem is an extreme metal band originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia. The group formed in 2001 with traditional death metal roots but began combining elements of technical death metal and black metal by the time of their 2010 release. Their 2014 album, ''Casting Ruin'', is often referred to as part of the subgenre known as technical blackened death metal. Sound Considered a mix of technical death metal, black metal, and brutal death metal with most caveats the genre normally has to offer, including extreme vocals, the normal barrage of blast beats and abundant double bass drumming, as well as guitar-work with sweep picking and arpeggios. However, the band has also integrated the study of binaural audio into the structures of their songs, which gives them an augmented sound and odd compositional structure. This is not to say that they have changed the frequencies of their music, rather that they have applied this knowledge to compose highly poly-rhythmic struc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland Deathfest
Maryland Deathfest (often abbreviated to MDF) is an annual American extreme metal festival founded in 2003 by Ryan Taylor and Evan Harting. The festival is held in Baltimore, Maryland during Memorial Day weekend, and it features many bands from around the world that vary from a wide range of Heavy metal genres, heavy metal subgenres. It is the biggest event of its kind in North America, attracting attendees from more than 40 U.S. states and 25 countries every year. More than 700 bands from more than 35 countries have played at MDF since 2003. The concept of the event is "To bring to the world the best and most extreme bands the underground has to offer. Never conforming to trends, or being limited by genre restrictions, we want to showcase what extreme music, both new and old, is capable of." Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, COVID-19 pandemic, MDF was cancelled in 2020 and 2021, but returned on May 26-29, 2022. Shortly before the 2022 festival, the organizers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neurotic Records
Neurotic Records is an independent extreme metal record label specialising predominantly in death metal, operating out of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Founded in late 2003 by Ruud Lemmen, who was initially responsible for European distribution for the American label Unique Leader before deciding to set up his own label. In recent years, the label has been seen as an up-and-coming label after a number of relatively high-profile signings of certain bands, especially those signed from the well-respected Unique Leader label. Neurotic Records is also directly involved in and responsible for the annual death metal festival Neurotic Deathfest, a growing music festival formerly known as the ''Rotterdam Deathfest'' - the name being changed to reflect the team behind the organisation of the festival as well as freeing the event up from being tied down to one specific city location. In mid-2007, the label signed a licensing deal with American label Willowtip to distribute previously unavaila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorguts
Gorguts is a Canadian death metal band from Sherbrooke, Quebec, formed in 1989. The band has been through many personnel changes since its inception; its only constant member has been guitarist and vocalist Luc Lemay, who remains the primary creative force in the band. To date they have released five full-length albums and one EP. Their most recent release is the EP ''Pleiades' Dust'', released on May 13, 2016. Their latest full-length album ''Colored Sands'' was released in 2013 and was nominated for a Juno Award. Musically the band is known for its complex, musically dense form of technical death metal, and has become "one of the most advanced, experimental, and challenging groups in the entire genre." History Formation, ''Considered Dead'', and ''The Erosion of Sanity'' (1989–1993) Gorguts was formed in 1989 by Luc Lemay (vocals and guitar), Sylvain Marcoux (guitar), Éric Giguère (bass guitar) and Stephane Provencher (drums); the band name was suggested by one of Proven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Relapse Records
Relapse Records is an American independent record label based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990. The label features many grindcore, death metal, metalcore and sludge metal artists. History The label was started by Matthew F. Jacobson in August, 1990 in his parents' basement in Aurora, Colorado. The first two releases on the label were 7-inch singles by the bands Velcro Overdose and Face of Decline, closely followed by three death metal bands that would become among the biggest on the label, Deceased, Suffocation, and Incantation. After this, Jacobson became acquainted with William Yurkiewicz Jr., who became his partner in the record label. Yurkiewicz had founded his own record label, which was soon to release albums from the bands General Surgery, Disrupt, Destroy, Misery, and Yurkiewicz's own band Exit-13. The two joined forces to create Relapse Records, aiming to release high-quality, professionally packaged extreme music. In 1991, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog. Schreiber started Pitchfork while working at a record store in suburban Minneapolis, and the website earned a reputation for its extensive coverage of indie rock music. It has since expanded and covers all kinds of music, including pop. Pitchfork was sold to Condé Nast in 2015, although Schreiber remained its editor-in-chief until he left the website in 2019. Initially based in Minneapolis, Pitchfork later moved to Chicago, and then Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Its offices are currently located in One World Trade Center alongside other Condé Nast publications. The site is best known for its daily output of music reviews but also regularly reviews reissues and box sets. Since 2016, it has published retrospective reviews of classics, and other albums that it had not previously review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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