Ulcerate - Of Fracture And Failure flac album

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 in partnership with Willowtip Records, with whom the band would later sign.

Of Fracture and Failure is the first album by Ulcerate.

Band Photography Michael Hoggard.

Of Fracture and Failure might be an album that can only be listened to retroactively. On its own merits, it might be more obviously whirling about the high-velocity vortex of bands like Origin with some of the demented chord-shapes of Gorguts. However, what this album highlights more than anything is where Ulcerate was going to venture into later on, and what stands out on this release are the shadows of forthcoming ideas much more than the merits possessed by Of Fracture and Failure itself.

2 Ulcerate Album Photos. Of Fracture and Failure (2007). Album (Studio full-length). Technical Death Metal. 1. Praise and Negation (4:14) 2. Ad Nauseam (3:40) 3. The Mask of the Satyr (6:33) 4. Becoming the Lycanthrope (4:14) 5. To Fell Goliath (3:47) 6. Martyr of the Soil (7:34) 7. Failure (2:53) 8. The Coming of Genocide (3:38) 9. Defaeco (8:42). All album photos (11,544).

Of Fracture and Failure is the debut full-length studio album by New Zealand progressive death metal act Ulcerate. A new lead vocalist Ben Read and a new guitarist Michael Rothwell have been added to the lineup since the demo days. Especially the inclusion of the former has great impact on the sound on Of Fracture and Failure. Ulcerate started their career releasing two demos Ulcerate (2003) and The Coming of Genocide (2004) which both showed great promise. Relentlessly brutal death metal but with a few twist and turns to make them interesting to fans of progressive death metal.

On Of Fracture and Failure, Ulcerate utilise huge walls of dissonance and blistering riffs to create an album that is both crushing and unusually melodic. The riffing on this album lies somewhere between the dense texture of Immolation, and the off-kilter technicality of Gorguts, though it never sounds purely derivative of these influences. The huge sound is mostly attributed to the highly contrapuntal and busy form of riffing which the guitarists display, as much of the low end chugging and temolo picking is accompanied by droning higher pitched notes and fluttery riffs.

BPM Profile Of Fracture and Failure. Album starts at 119BPM, ends at 101BPM (-18), with tempos within the -BPM range. Try refreshing the page if dots are missing). Recent albums by Ulcerate. Shrines of Paralysis. The Destroyers of All.