- Sixth full-length album via Metal Blade (7th in their history) - one of the biggest bands in the Extreme Metal scene - constantly growing and loyal fanbase (more than 200.000 likes on facebook) [!] - New album featuring guest contributions by: Phil Anselmo (Pantera, Down) & Jurgen Bartsch (Bethlehem) [!] - Ltd. Edition Digipak incl. Bonus-DVD + European exclusive bonus tracks [!]
With 2012's Monolith Of Inhumanity CATTLE DECAPITATION delivered a sledgehammer blow, maintaining their position at the most violent end of the death metal spectrum yet expanding their sound, allowing a little more melody in without losing any of their intensity. As always tied together by a central concept, Ryan's bleak lyrics bluntly illustrated the fate of the human race if allowed to continue pillaging and destroying the planet. "The Anthropocene Extinction is set in the world that we destroyed, and lyrically, it's certainly the most depressing record I've written.” Dominated by their blistering death-grind attack, shades of caustic black metal seep in across the record, and they further expand on the more epic and melodic aspects of its predecessor, at the same time making for a far more cohesive listening experience. "We've never actively said "let's do a black metal part" or "let's do a brutal blastbeat part!" We base everything on feeling, but we definitely focused much more on fluidity within the songs and making the record flow much more than on some of our earlier releases", adds singer Travis Ryan.
TRACKLIST CD:
01. Manufactured Extinct
02. The Prophets of Loss
03. Plagueborne
04. Clandestine Ways (Krokodil Rot)
05. Circo Inhumanitas
06. The Burden of Seven Billion
07. Mammals in Babylon
08. Mutual Assured Destruction
09. Not Suitable For Life
10. Apex Blasphemy
11. Ave Exitium
12. Pacific Grim
13. Cannibalistic Invasivorism (bonus tracks)*
14. No Light and No Life (bonus tracks)*
Bonus-DVD:
“PARTY SAN 2012 “
1. Forced Gender Reassignment
2. Your Disposal
3. Lifestalker
4. Projectile Ovulation
5. Kingdom of Tyrants Production
Videos:
1. Your Disposal
2. Kingdom of Tyrants (mini-film)
3. Regret & the Grave
4. A Body Farm
5. Reduced To Paste
6. To Serve Man
+ Making of “The Anthropocene Extinction”