Interview with Jamie from Ulcerate. Killer band, top human. Don't miss this tour!!!!

 ULCERATE: THE THROAT THAT NEVER STOPS BLEEDING

Interview with Jamie from Ulcerate. Killer band, top human. Don't miss this tour!!!!

There are death metal bands, and then there is Ulcerate. The distinction matters. Death metal, for all its supposed extremity, has calcified into a set of recognisable moves — the chug, the blast, the pinch harmonic, the pit-ready breakdown. Ulcerate have never played that game. Since emerging from Auckland in the early 2000s, they've been doing something stranger and more unsettling: building cathedrals out of wreckage, writing music that feels less like songs and more like pressure systems, weather events, tectonic shifts you can't outrun.

Seven albums in, they are still one of the most singular bands on the planet. Full stop.

Cutting the Throat of God — their 2024 bruiser — marks another turn of the screw. The melodic instincts that surfaced on 2020's Stare Into Death and Be Still are pushed further here, and the result is disorienting in the best possible way. This is not a band softening. It's a band who've figured out that devastation and beauty aren't opposites, they're the same blade. The hooks are real. The dread is realer. It is obscenely, almost offensively, good.

They're coming to Australia next week — Melbourne gets them at Max Watts on May 8th alongside The Amenta, a pairing that should frankly require a safety briefing — and we sat down with drummer Jamie Saint Merat ahead of the run. What follows is a conversation about craft, pressure, and what it means to spend two decades making music that most of the industry doesn't have the vocabulary to describe.

This is the real thing. Don't miss it.

Enjoy:

https://youtu.be/_vOdRqI0mU4

https://www.ulcerate-official.com/