Something happened in the band that caused a shift in
creative interests, which then saw the unexpected sound of their next album, To
Serve Man. This album got Cattle Decapitation’s existence acknowledged by
millions worldwide (note that I just said ACKNOWLEDGED, not LIKED). This album
had more of a death grind sound than goregrind (or even grindcore for that
matter). There are some death grind bands out there that put out a grindcore
album before stepping into the death grind realms to make the transition smooth
and easier for their audience to follow and keep up with. But Cattle
Decapitation didn’t want to do that, they just went ahead and made the giant
leap to skip over that step.
After that…well…they’ve just been throwing out one
mind-blowing album after another; and they’re showing no signs of stopping. Skipping
to 2009, The Harvest Floor gets released and album sales and concert attendance
went up as high as a crackhead on the peak of Mt. Everest. The hype that the
teaser for Monolith of Inhumanity created is nearly unspeakable. I’m seeing
these guys on Saturday for the Occupation Domination tour and people are
telling me that the people are going crazier for Cattle Decapitation than
Aborted (the band right under the headliner, Origin). Here’s the quick summary
of the new album: they’ve taken a step back to having more of a grind sound
while managing to still be progressive. The big progressive sound of Karma
Bloody Karma and The Harvest Floor is in what the guitars themselves were
playing than the overall sound of the music, which was a very melodic and soft
sound (especially evident in several parts of Gardeners of Eden from The
Harvest Floor).
The first song that everyone heard from the new album was A
Living, Breathing Piece of Defecating Meat. The sheer brutality and insanity
that this song delivers is indescribable, yet there’s singing…wait…SINGING??
Where the hell did THAT come from?? Of all the bands that would incorporate
singing in their extremely brutal music, Cattle Decapitation is one of the LAST
bands I would have expected to do that. Here’s the thing about the singing that
actually makes it an interesting and (as impossible as it may seem)
unexpectedly FITTING element; it’s not your typical super clean and pure
singing voice. The singing has an extremely unique sound that has a somewhat
high-pitched rough sound (I’m having a really hard time describing it, so you
should just listen to the teaser song.
That being the progression that they’ve made, Cattle
Decapitation has worked to reanimate a lot of the brutality heard in albums
like To Serve Man and The Harvest Floor along with some new insanity yet to be
heard by the death grind fan (which could arguably be considered somewhat of a
progressive element). Although I’m not going to pick specific favorites because
the whole album is great, and those kinds of things form in my mind a couple of
months to a year after listening to the album; I will say that the first track
and A Living, Breathing Piece of Defecating Meat are the tracks that I’ve repeatedly
gone back to the most.
Monolith of Inhumanity is yet another 20/20 album to add to
the ol’ Cattle Decapitation discography. I would recommend this mainly to
brutality and grind fans due to the increased amount in grindcore and brutal
death elements that the record holds. Cattle Decapitation is showing no
intentions of slowing down or decreasing in brutality or quality. My
expectations for this album=surpassed.
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