Cattle Decapitation

Cattle Decapitation is an American grindcore band. They were formed in San Diego, California, in 1996. The band's current members are singer Travis Ryan, guitarists Josh Elmore and Belisario Dimuzio, bassist Olivier Pinard, and drummer David McGraw. Cattle Decapitation has released seven albums. Their newest album is Death Atlas, which came out in 2019.^[5]

Cattle Decapitation
Cattle Decapitation in 2016
Background information
Origin	San Diego, California, U.S.
Genres	Deathgrind[1] grindcore[2] technical death metal[3] goregrind (early)[4]
Years active	1996 (1996)–present
Labels	Satan's Pimp Three One G Accident Prone Metal Blade War Torn
Members	Travis Ryan Josh Elmore Dave McGraw Belisario Dimuzio Olivier Pinard
Past member(s)	Scott Miller Gabe Serbian Dave Astor Michael Laughlin Troy Oftedal Derek Engemann
Website	cattledecapitation.com

Cattle Decapitation's music is known for being about animal abuse and environmentalism. The band's members are all vegan or vegetarian.^[6]

Studio albums

• To Serve Man (2002)
• Humanure (2004)
• Karma.Bloody.Karma (2006)
• The Harvest Floor (2009)
• Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
• The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
• Death Atlas (2019)
• Terrasite (2023)

References

1. Andy Hermann.Seeing Cattle Decapitation at Los Globos Just Made Me a Deathgrind Fan Archived December 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. LA Weekly. January 6, 2015.
2. Bayer, Gerd, Heavy Metal Music in Britain (Ashgate Publishing, 2013), p.60.
3. "Staff Review: Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction | Sputnikmusic". SputnikMusic. August 12, 2015. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
4. Cattle Decapitation at AllMusic
5. MetalSucks (2019-07-12). "Cattle Decapitation to Release New Album Death Atlas on the Most Metal of Release Dates". MetalSucks. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
6. MetalSucks (2019-11-26). "Album Review: Cattle Decapitation Create an Extinction-Level Event on Death Atlas". MetalSucks. Retrieved 2022-11-09.