METAL BLADE
A higher level of dystopian deathgrind
TWENTY YEARS AGO, Cattle Decapitation were a face-ripping deathgrind band with a clear lyrical focus on animal rights and the destruction of the Earth at humanity’s hands. What few people realised at the time was that frontman Travis Ryan had creative ambitions far beyond the underground’s hostile clattering. In recent times, his band have risen majestically from the abattoir wheelie bin and become one of extreme metal’s most admired acts. Although still rooted in ferocious death metal, albums such as 2019’s monstrous Death Atlas have been almost cinematic in scope, with twisted melodies, progressive detours and Travis’s increasingly versatile vocal range giving Cattle Decapitation rare depth and substance. The band’s 10th full-length, Terrasite, has a lot to live up to.
Cheerily, documented the demise of mankind through nucleardoes the decent thing of continuing the story, and shines a brutal light on the mutant horrors that apparently emerge from humanity’s terminal fallout (albeit still
