LABEL: DEBEMUR MORTI PRODUCTIONS
RELEASE DATE:09/12/2025
VARIANT: Transparent Red w/Black Smoke Vinyl LP

After triumphantly casting off the shackles of claustrophobic dissonance on 2020s lauded Stare Into Death and Be Still, New Zealand unorthodox Death Metal legends ULCERATE up the ante even further with mind-bending 7th album Cutting the Throat of God.

An acknowledgement that the bands most powerful and affecting material leans to the melodic side, this refined and hook-laden new record is a self-sufficient universe unto itself, a conflagration of inventively visceral Death/Black Metal where dizzying experimentation meets head-nodding abandon obscenely twisted and addictive, heart-stopping in its depth of feeling.

After a quarter-century of playing music together, Hoggard/Saint Merat are cemented as one of the strongest guitar-percussion combinations in Extreme Metal, and their music has evolved organically into something completely its own. The most well-produced ULCERATE record to date, Cutting the Throat of God is filled with peerless rhythms, the bands smoothest transitions, most compelling phrasing, and truly staggering riffage. The exhilarating, liquescent flow is topped off by a destructively dynamic performance from vocalist/lyricist Paul Kelland.

Cutting the Throat of God explores a cohesive lyrical theme centered around the rupture of morality, the delicate boundary between depravity and extremity, and the irreversible descent into darkness.