Cattle Decapitation Tickets

Though many bands have tried, no one articulates the real apocalypse humanity is facing as vividly and succinctly as Cattle Decapitation. Founded in 1996, the band started with an entirely vegan line up. Described by Metal author and journalist Garry Sharpe-Young once as "one of the few metal bands whose message hits as hard as their music.” Cattle Decapitation has toured with extreme metal acts including Suffocation, Cryptopsy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Deicide, Behemoth, Hate Eternal, Krisiun and Job for a Cowboy. 

After 2019’s 'Death Atlas', perhaps leading some to believe they had no place left to go beyond such an achievement, they returned with Terrasite, which is as bold a statement as they have ever made. As such, Terrasite pushes their sound further into more epic and varied territory, and in the hands of vocalist Travis Ryan the governing concept takes a new and disturbing direction. 

“I wanted to do the 180° opposite of Death Atlas. Since Death Atlas was so dark and brooding, I wanted this to take place in the daylight. I’ve always found daytime horror to be really unsettling, which also finds its place within the lyrics.” 

The title is a word invented by Ryan that brings together ‘Terra-’ meaning earth and ‘-site’ derived from the Greek word ‘-sitos’ which means ‘food’. “The combination of the two mean ‘earth-eater’, as a metaphor for humanity’s role in the destruction of the planet, and is a play-on-words of the very fitting word ‘parasite’.” Cattle Decapitation are skilled architects of existential dread.With themes that centre around the mistreatment and consumption of animals, they create a sonic landscape that places the listener in the situations that animals are subjected to.