Released October 28, 2016 Length 57:44 Artist Ulcerate Label Relapse Records | Recorded April 2016 Language English Release date 28 October 2016 | |
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Studio MCA Studios and Depot Studios, Auckland, New Zealand Genres Technical death metal, Post-metal Similar Vermis, The Destroyers of All, Everything Is Fire, Of Fracture and Failure | ||
Ulcerate shrines of paralysis full album stream
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.
Contents
- Ulcerate shrines of paralysis full album stream
- Ulcerate shrines of paralysis official track
- Critical reception
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
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'.
Ulcerate shrines of paralysis official track
Critical reception
Shrines of Paralysis has received very positive reviews from music critics. Sputnik Music described the album as a "masterpiece of musicianship, composition and imagery", writing that "In keeping with Ulcerate opuses of the past, Shrines of Paralysis hides all of its nuances from plain view, uncovering them only for the most devout. Return with regularity and the mosaic begins to piece itself together." Invisible Oranges also praised the album, writing that "A lot of technical death metal gets described as knotty, but Ulcerate are much better at untangling the strands", and that "This decentralized and evasive approach to brutality captures the essence of death metal at its onset – a sense of unease and terrifying otherness – without ever falling prey to the genre’s tropes." Metal Hammer's Dom Lawson described the album as "intensely internal music, wrung from the darkest depths of the New Zealanders’ collective consciousness and spewed out with flailing abandon like Cthulhu bursting through the earth’s surface. It speaks of unimaginable horrors, as barbarous and excruciating maelstroms of dissonance and rhythmic ebb and flow like the opening Abrogation and the unnervingly bleak There Are No Saviours unfold." He concluded that the album is "another evolutionary jump for these shadowy Kiwis, but not one that caters to the easily bewildered."
Track listing
All lyrics written by Paul Kelland; all music composed by Michael Hoggard and Jamie Saint Merat.
Personnel
Songs
1Abrogation5:50
2Yield to Naught7:44
3There Are No Saviours8:04