As of January 7th, US grinders Cattle Decapitation has entered Flatline Studio to record the follow-up to 2009's groundbreaker The Harvest Floor.

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Metal Blade press release:

Cattle Decapitation vocalist Travis Ryan has recently recorded vocals for the new Soulfly album due early 2012 on Roadrunner Records. Travis recorded his portion of the vocals at Frick'in Studios in San Marcos, CA, with engineer Dan Frick and the result was extremely positive.

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In November 2010 Cattle Decapitation returned home from headlining The California Blood Tour and decided to take the next year off and immediately began writing the follow up to their critically-acclaimed 2009 release The Harvest Floor.

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A quick teaser, showing US metallers Cattle Decapitation hard at work on their forthcoming as-yet-untitled album, can be viewed at this location.

The album is slated for a spring 2012 release via Metal Blade Records.


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Cattle Decapitation are pleased to announce "The California Blood Tour".

Featuring bands mostly hailing from California, the tour will be headlined by Cattle Decapitation and sees Devourment (TX) rearing its ugly head plus searing acts such as Knights Of The Abyss, fellow San Diegans Burning The Masses and newcomers Son Of Aurelius. Select dates also feature Sacramento's Slaughterbox and San Diego's own purveyors of brutality, Condemned.

This will be Cattle Decapitation's final US tour for the Harvest Floor record, as the band will commence the writing of their 5th Metal Blade release at the end of the year.

Cattle Decapitation vocalist Travis Ryan had this to say about the tour: "We've had this idea for a tour that was mostly comprised of California bands for quite a while now. I don't know, there was just something about the term "California love" (popularized by 2Pac Shakur) that never quite sat right with us so we came up with something a little more fitting, considering the level of brutality that California has always had under its belt. From the seedy sewers in the big cities to the "Cowshwitz" communities of central CA to the inhospitable depravity of the dry desert, we decided it was time to show the rest of the US that CaliGOREnia is not just about hippies, silicone bodies and marijuana dispensaries (not that there's anything wrong with that, haha!)... This is California Blood!"

09/29 - Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse (with Condemned)
09/30 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad
10/04 - Fort Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theatre
10/05 - Tulsa, OK @ The Marquee
10/06 - Little Rock, AR @ Downtown Music
10/07 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
10/08 - Metairie, LA @ The High Ground
10/09 - Tampa, FL @ The Brass Mug
10/10 - Stuart, FL @ Cruiser's
10/12 - Orlando, FL @ Back Booth
10/13 - Raleigh, NC @ Volume 11
10/14 - Spartanburg, NC @ Ground Zero
10/15 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
10/16 - Wilmington, DE @ Mojo 13
10/17 - Patchogue, NY @ Karma
10/18 - New York, NY @ Santo's Party House
10/19 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance
10/20 - Buffalo, NY @ Club Paradise
10/21 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
10/22 - Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
10/23 - Chicago, IL @ Reggie's Rock Club
10/24 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
10/25 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre
10/26 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In the Venue
10.27 - Boise, ID @ The Venue
10/28 - Seattle, WA @ Studio 7 (with Slaughterbox)
10/29 - Portland, OR @ Satyricon (with Slaughterbox)

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Cattle Decapitation have confirmed a shitload of US tour dates - both headlining as support dates - with Job For A Cowboy, Revocation, Whitechapel and Gaza, among others. All details can be found here. The band will also embark on a European tour in summer. Dates are to be announced.

For the event, Cattle Decapitation has announced a bass player to handle all upcoming touring duties has been found - after the previous one leaving in August. Bassist Derek Engemann of Kansas' Unmerciful will be handling bass duties on all upcoming tour dates. The band was quoted: "We jammed all weekend and are more than confident in his abilities and can't wait to hit the road with him! Prepare for annihilation!"

In other news, the band'll be releasing a rarities compilation soon via Metal Blade Records. The collection appropriately titled Medium Rarities will feature tracks spanning Cattle Decapitation's career including never before heard songs, hard to find/out of print tracks, live material, cover tunes and ultra rare pre-Human Jerky tracks never before heard by fans of the band. Wes Benscoter will be handling the artwork. More info on this coming so stay tuned.

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Cattle Decapitation have announced upcoming tour plans together with the departure of bassist Troy Oftedal. A message from the band reads as follows;

"It is time to announce a few things that have been going on in the Cattle Decapitation camp. First off, we have officially parted ways with bassist Troy Oftedal due to musical and personal differences. There is no bad blood and we wish him the best of luck. Filling in on upcoming tours will be our friend Rahsaan Davis. You may have seen him on our recent tour as Troy left tour early due to a physical ailment.

We'll be hitting the road in late September with Soulfly, Prong and Mutiny Within for a US tour! Starting in our neck of the woods, the tour will lead us across the country, along the east coast and back home. We have a handful of dates already and there are more on the way!

We're also working on dates for a European tour! We expect that it will happen in the early winter months and we'll keep you posted on that... Check back to our websites for details as they unfold."

Soulfly, Prong, Cattle Decapitation and Mutiny Within tour:

09/30 Hollywood, CA Key Club
10/02 San Diego, CA Cane's Bar & Grill
10/03 Orangevale, CA The Boardwalk
10/04 San Francisco, CA Regency Ballroom
10/07 Seattle, WA Showbox Theatre
10/09 Denver, CO Cervantes Masterpiece
10/10 Salina, KS The Blue Goat
10/14 Grand Rapids, MI The Intersection
10/16 Detroit, MI Harpo's
10/17 Dayton, OH McDuffy's House Of Rock
10/19 New York, NY Gramercy Theatre
10/20 Towson, MD Recher Theatre

More dates to be announced soon!

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Cattle Decapitation are about to release their new upcoming album "The Harvest Floor" on January 20th through Metal Blade Records. An e-card for "The Harvest Floor" is available for viewing now and features the song "The Gardeners Of Eden". Check it out here. Both "The Gardeners Of Eden" and "A Body Farm" are also available for streaming online over at the band's MySpace.

Cattle Decapitation will also be touring in promotion of their fifth studio album. The release of "The Harvest Floor" will be followed up by a southern US headlining tour, entitled "Killing 'Til Oblivion Tour" tour poster], with labelmates Psyopus, Book Of Black Earth and Gigan.

01/21 Santa Barbara, CA - The Jensen Mainstage
01/22 Bakersfield, CA - The Dome (no Book Of Black Earth)
01/23 Berkeley, CA - 924 Gilman Street
01/24 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside
01/25 Hollywood, CA - Knitting Factory
01/26 Tempe, AZ - The Sets
01/27 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
01/28 El Paso, TX - Chic's Billiards
01/29 Austin, TX - Red 7
01/30 San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit
01/31 Houston, TX - Java Jazz
02/01 Metairie, LA - The High Ground
02/02 Pensacola, FL - American Legion Post 33
02/03 Jacksonville, FL - Fuel Coffeehouse
02/04 Orlando, FL - Back Booth
02/05 Tampa, FL - The Orpheum
02/06 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
02/07 Tallahassee, FL - The Engine Room
02/09 Little Rock, AR - The Village
02/10 Dallas, TX - The Lounge on Elm Street
02/11 Farmington, NM - Gator's
02/12 Tucson, AZ - The Rock
02/13 San Marcos, CA - The Jumping Turtle

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US extreme metallers Cattle Decapitation have issued the following details about their new album:

"We're finnaly done with all the finishing touches of our new album and we feel we've finally done it! Sonically, the band has managed to finally capture and accentuate its live intensity that we've become known for and has created one hell of an album from start to epic finish! Conceptually, its misanthropy shall go unmatched. This is it, humans... ferocity at its finest.

The album is called "The Harvest Floor", a title Travis has been kicking around in his head and working towards for the last 2 albums and will arrive as an enhanced CD and there will also be a picture disc LP version that comes with a giant poster! The actual title refers to the area of a slaughterhouse where the animal (of course in our case it always means the human) begins the agonizing process of death, usually done with a bolt to the forehead or a slice to the throat. "The Harvest Floor" is a fitting title for an album laden in gore and the anti-human metaphors and sentiments Cattle Decapitation fans have grown to know and love.

Artwork by Wes Benscoter shows the outside of a large slaughterhouse/factory of doom and gloom with the general public being herded inside to meet their demise. The inside of the album layout reveals what's really inside that slaughterhouse: our misanthropic heroes of GORE (not core) at another hard day of work! Combined with the amazing artwork and conceptually brutal layout, the CD version of The Harvest Floor also contains an enhanced portion which sports an I-pod ready documentary titled "Pandemic: The Damnation Epic - The Making of "The Harvest Floor" which, simply put, makes "The Harvest Floor" an apocalyptic multimedia epic!

Track Listing:

01. The Gardeners of Eden
02. A Body Farm
03. We are Horrible People
04. Tooth Enamel & Concrete
05. The Ripe Beneath the Rind
06. The Product Alive
07. In Axetasy
08. Into the Public Bath
09. The Harvest Floor
10. Regret & the Grave

No strangers to guest appearances, Cattle Decapitation have enlisted some old friends for guest vocals including Ross Sewage (Impaled/Ludicra) and Dino Sommese (Dystopia/Asunder). The band is also very pleased to announce there is a special appearance by Jarboe (Swans), lending her beautifully haunting voice to the epic death dirge "The Harvest Floor". Jackie Perez Gratz (Grayceon/Amber Asylum) graces a couple tracks with her electric cello and Los Angeles noisician John Wiese also lends his electronic/atmospheric expertise to the album further separating the band from the typical "cookie-cutter" approach applied all too often by today's extreme acts.

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As posted on the band's official website:

"We enter Castle Ultimate Studios in Oakland, CA tomorrow to start working on our fourth Metal Blade full length! We'll be doing the drums with the mighty Zach Ohren (All Shall Perish, Decrepit Birth) and then over to Sharkbite studios to record the rest and mix with our man Billy Anderson. This is going to be devastating, we promise. The new material is over the top. The lyrics, as hateful as "Karma.Bloody.Karma" but much more disgusting this time around.

We'll be announcing the name of the album, song titles and cover art when we have completed the recording! Details on that, studio reports and fly on the wall footage in the studio coming soon!"

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Metal Blade's gore-grinders Cattle Decapitation will now commence writing their next album due in late August 2008. This will be the first recording with new drummer David Mcgraw (ex-Sleep Terror) who joined Cattle Decapitation in Fall of 2007. The studio effort will be produced by Billy Anderson (Melvins), with drums to be engineered by Zach Ohren (Animosity). Meanwhile, artwork will once again be provided by Wes Benscoter (Slayer).

"We're taking a short break from writing our next album to come out and adorn California in Gore!!! A couple notable shows are gonna be our first show in Years at the old Covered Wagon building, now called Annie's Social Club in San Francisco with our buddy Pete Ponitkoff's(singer of Benumb) band Agenda of Swine, our long awaited return to the Boardwalk in Orangevale - we regrettably missed the last show due to Travis being temporarily hospitalized for a panic attack - We Will Make It This Time!, and the big show at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, CA with friends Phobia, Skarp, The Funeral Pyre, Watch Me Burn & many more!!!

We'd also like to announce that we'll be returning to the studio in August with Billy Anderson once again at the helm! We'll also be incorporating the abilities of Zach Ohren for the recording of the drums! The album's title is being withheld until we decide to warn the public, but so far here are a few choice song titles of which we'll be playing at all the shows this week "Tooth Enamel & Concrete", "Regret & the Grave", "We Are Horrible People" & "The Body Farm".

Once again Wes Benscoter will be handling the art and we've already done a truly disturbing photo shoot that yielded a bounty of gore and the brutality of human existence for use in the layout which will be done by our graphic guru, Cain!"

In other news, here's Cattle Decapitation's live dates for California:

19/06 The Exit (formerly The Belmont) - Fresno, CA
20/06 Annie's Social Club - San Francisco, CA
21/06 The Boardwalk - Orangevale, CA
22/06 Jump N Around - Salinas, CA
23/06 The Knitting Factory - Hollywood, CA
25/06 Club Karma - Victoreville, CA

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Cattle Decapitation has announced on their myspace blog that David McGraw (ex-Sleep Terror) is the band's new drummer. David had toured the US with the band during the Death By Decibels tour with Vader and Malevolent Creation.

The band has also announced that they will start writing for the new album next month and is also planning an Australian tour in the second half of 2008.

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San Diego extreme metallers Cattle Decapitation will perform under the name Felchbastard at a special one-off show at their favorite local bar, Scolari's Office, in their home base of North Park, San Diego, CA on Tuesday, October 9. The 21-plus free event "should prove to be insane," says the group.

According to a press release, "Felchbastard was an idea concocted by the band to usher in drummer Michael Laughlin in 2003 and just may be his last show with the band! The band covers the place in toilet paper and covers themselves in shit (fake, of course)."

Also scheduled to appear are Rue and Lightning Swords Of Death.

Tuesday, October 9
Scolari's Office
3936 30th St
San Diego, CA 92104
9:00 p.m.
21 and up w/ ID
FREE!!!

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US Grinders Cattle Decapitation have uploaded the bonus track from the Japanese version of "Karma.Bloody.Karma", entitled 'World Full Of Idiots', to their MySpace Page.

"Karma.Bloody.Karma" was released in July 2006 via Metal Blade Records.

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San Diego extreme metallers Cattle Decapitation have been rejoined by drummer Michael Laughlin. "After a much-needed break, the man is refreshed and ready to destroy once again!" the group writes in a press release.

Cattle Decapitation will team up with The Locust and Daughters for a U.S. tour beginning on March 23 in San Diego. "Before that we will be doing a few warm-up dates in southern California (look for dates in early March!), but not before we hit up Mexico City!" the band writes. "We announced earlier that we'll be playing Mexico City and surrounding areas for the Chas Metal Attack fest featuring Marduk, Monstrosity, Setherial and us!"

For list of dates on Cattle Decapitation's tour with The Locust and Daughters click here.

Cattle Decapitation was honored in the "Best Hard Rock Band" category at the 2006 San Diego Music Awards, which took place on Sept. 18, 2006. The band's latest album, "Karma.Bloody.Karma", was released in July 2006 via Metal Blade Records. The CD was produced by Billy Anderson (Swans, Mr. Bungle, Sleep) and features guest appearances by Joey Karam (The Locust) and John Wiese (Sunn 0))), Bastard Noise).

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