This is not the kind of band where you download a track or two to listen to at your leisure. Everything is Fire is the kind of album that demands your full attention and repeatedly listens and rewards your devotion with worlds of emotion and majesty.
- Grind and Punishment
Everything is Fire is, at its core, a dense flurry of sound that demands the listener's undivided attention before it can give itself over and be fully absorbed.
- Diabolical Conquest
...Everything is Fire need to be absorbed completely as the sonic voracity of every note literally seeps into every vein and pore of your being, deeper with each listen.
- Teeth of the Divine
...So brace yourself, dear listener, for a sonic beating of the highest order, Ulcerate are toxic and terrifying, defining the word 'brutal' without having to shove it in your face.
- Terrorizer.com
...hectic flurries of colorful percussive flare and loads of dissonantly mangled riffs with an overall sense of thick, churning energy that really creates an intriguing atmosphere...
- Aversionline.com
ULCERATE unerringly pursue the vision of their own sound and, given all the apparent brutality, technicality and speed, they write first and foremost excellent songs that still reveal new details even after countless spins.
- Metalnews.de
...Ulcerate inject a whole different sense of brutality into their music that is very much their own, letting the material take on its own natural form rather than flooding it with endless bouts of soulless self-indulgence
- Archaic Magazine
Everything Is Fire is the sort of album that sucks you deep down and doesn’t let go, if you take the trouble to really listen and get involved.
- Metalreviews.com
This is what I would call uneasy listening, it’s not full of the joys of spring that is for sure but is designed to unsettle the listener and take them to a pretty damn bleak place.
Scheduled for an early 2009 release, Ulcerate's second full-length album 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.
Alright, I'll see to it that I'll get in as early as possible on Dec 11th (and possibly 12th, and 19th, ...) then. And yes, the Anta-connection was my main motivation aswell, haha.
I see you're playing at the Exhaus in Trier, great venue and great crowd!
Cheers Ulcerate for coming to napier. Was such a cool night. You sounded even more intense(somehow)live. So stoaked to here drown within(as the encore song, hails!) Go hard in Europe! i think you made some new fans in napier. Cheers
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Hope to catch you guys at the Hannover gig in Germany, great line-up anyway! I should get one of those shirts as well - I bought one from Italy for the "Coming of Genocide" album but it disppeared, thank you postal service, argh. Ulrich/IO
Without a doubt, Everything is Fire is the best record I have heard in years. I heard of you guys off the Nile forum and I am glad I did. Your music is very insipirational and has changed they way I look at Death metal. I wish you guys the greatest success possible!!!!! - TRIGON AION
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