Of Fracture and Failure is the debut full-length album by New Zealand death metal band Ulcerate.

Written over a two-year period, the album was recorded in April 2006 at Retractile Audio and mastered by Alan Douches at West Side Music, New York City, USA.

[3] Jamie Saint Merat has said that the band "set out from the beginning of writing to come up with a sound bordering on chaos and very suffocating in terms of breathing space (or lack thereof).

So this resulted in a serious amount of parts per song that all needed to be bridged together to work.

"[5] Lyrically, "the album’s lyrics form a sort of conceptual basis in the sense that they’re loosely chronological, the opening of the album is documenting man’s foibles and ignorance, leading through to tracks such as Failure (self explanatory), The Coming of Genocide (man killing his own kind) and Defaeco, which resolves the album and lyrically documents our end..."[6] All lyrics are written by Ben Read; all music is composed by UlceratePersonnel adapted from AllMusic.