The songs are masterfully composed and flow together beautifully, and the orchestration is exactly how I want metal orchestration to sound: full, playable by a real orchestra, and just as important to the music as the vocals, drums, guitar, and bass are. tonycordeshimself
Ulcerate possess a very unique sound. An ether creeping through a forest on a far away planet. A forest that would appear dead to those not equipped to see it's beauty. Life disguised as decay. Death's dreams, aurally incarnate. A rogue wave filled with anesthetized daggers knocks you into the most congenial coffin, and this is what you hear as you fade out with a smile.
There, I tried. All pretentiousness aside, this band kills. That guitar...wow. Heavy stuff. Brian Rossini
The Philadelphia group draw on the playfulness of prog rock as you’d expect from a group who’ve labelled their style as “metal for astronauts.” Bandcamp Album of the Day Sep 11, 2017
Screamo, post-rock, and a little black metal meld together for Virginia quartet Infant Island's signature immersive and melancholy sound. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 28, 2020
"Curse These Metal Hands" parlays the UK bands' chemistry into a record which—for all its tinnitus-inducing ferocity and elegiac arrangements—practically drips with transcendent joy. Bandcamp Album of the Day Aug 19, 2019
What a tremendous ride! For albums like this where the ambition is wide-screen and the musical reference points are so varied and complex, my guard immediately goes up as often the artist will succumb to the dreaded "trying too hard" syndrome. However, the artist in question here is Tamás Kátai and he hasn't missed yet. So I let my guard down and just enjoyed the intense but elegantly constructed piece unfold. It really stands alone in sound and composition. Nothing else sounds like "Naiv." bcb723