### Ulcer: Grant us death

#### 29/03/13 || Ironpants

You’ve been granted…

Ulcer is a polish death machine stepping outside their fellow countrymens usual comfort zone regarding writing death metal. Here we see no traces of Behemoth/Hate death metal, these guys take the ferry over to Sweden, jump the train to Stockholm, peeks through the window at Sunlight Studios and in an unsuspecting moment slides through the window, takes a photo with their spycam on the setup from the mixer board and sneaks out before Mr. Skogsberg gets back from the toilet. The photos are a bit blurry though, from their nervous break & enter, so they dont really nail it.

Now I am a little to rough on the guys, they aren’t really the first band that try to copy the old Swedeath sound. Who can blame them really? It was freakin’ awesome, and it still can be from time to time and there are several bands that take it up a notch with that sound. Ulcer doesn’t really get there though, but we can thank them for trying. Everything is there, the buzzing guitars we all know, the melody structures, the classic vocals.

And there are some small gold nuggets here lying around amongst the dusty old riffs but there are only so much new fresh ideas that can come out from a specific genre. It’s a pretty much OK old school Swedeath album, and if you’re trapped in that sound spectrum you will spin this sucker over and over, but the rest of us can hop along to the next finding. Cheers!

6/10 Standard Swedeath protocol activated, you are clear for take off!