Cattle Decapitation, We Eat Our Young | Track Review 🎵

Cattle Decapitation remains true to their extreme metal ways on the dark and damning promo single from Terrasite, “We Eat Our Young.”

“Ah! The fleshy architect! / Bold in design but fucking out of its mind / With self-indulgence and a self-worship / Birthing in stifling numbers as the planet worsens.”  Utter pessimism and an extreme brand of metal go hand in hand. 🎙 Cattle Decapitation is awesome at being dark, damning, and abso-fu¢king-lutely unapologetic (the f-bomb was necessary) 😈. Ahead of a new album filled with hellishness, 💿 Terrasite (arrives May 12, 2023), Cattle Decapitation gives us the subtly titled promo single, 🎵 “We Eat Our Young”.  Let that digest!

“We Eat Our Young” checks off the boxes for the typical Cattle Decapitation rubric. It’s hella heavy – jagged rhythms and riffs – distorted to the n^th degree, and dark AF.  The lyrics are easily decipherable, which is more than can be said of unclean vocals from some extreme metal collectives.  As always, the world is going to $hit by the band’s estimations, beginning with the first lyrics of the first verse: “Homo sapiens have made it perfectly clear / We can’t control ourselves / Living a life perfectly fine with blindly multiplying / Conscious of ruination coursing through our own bloodlines.”  Woo!  Another intriguing moment comes when 🎙 Travis Ryan sings, “We’ve upped the ante as the most invasive species of life / That ever shat on this earth / That learned to shit in its hearth, that ever bore living birth / That taught its offspring to drive its own hearse.” Wow!

Final Thoughts 💭

Cattle Decapitation is a one-of-a-kind metal band – that goes without saying! Once more, Travis Ryan and company inform us how horrible humankind is (like, very, very bad). What isn’t horrible is 🎵 “We Eat Our Young”. It marks another hard-hitting musical happening by the always unapologetic band.  Rock TF on 🤘!

🎙 Cattle Decapitation • 💿 Terrasite • 🏷 Metal Blade • 🗓 5.12.23

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