New Zealands pretty small, so its no surprise that its metal scene is proportionately intimate. That being said, Ulcerate are competitive with the best bands from anywhere on the globe. Viva globalism! Their music combines the brutal, downtuned riffing of traditional death metal (think Immolation or Morbid Angel) with the dissonance & shifting time signatures of Gorguts & the slow, atmospheric passages reminiscent of Isis. None of the eight songs are less than five minutes long, & the al