Deathgrind masters Cattle Decapitation have released “Manufactured Extinct”, the first track from their new album The Anthropocene Extinction, which will come out August 7th via Metal Blade Records. You can stream the vicious track below.
Vocalist Travis Ryan explains:
The Anthropocene Era is the era that humankind has inhabited, and it encompasses all of the ages that have come and gone during that period, and the record focuses on how we have managed to bring that era to an end. As our technology has advanced we have degraded the Earth. When you look to the oceans the footprint we have left comes in the form of all the junk and plastic that has made it out there because we let that happen, and the effect that has, because when you start breaking down eco-systems it’s a domino effect and will one day end up doing us in. The Anthropocene Extinction is set in the world that we destroyed, and it’s certainly the most depressing record I’ve written.
Direct from the official press release:
The record also sees the band extending their collaboration with illustrator Wes Benscoter, who’s handled the artwork for every Cattle Decapitation release since 2002’s To Serve Man. “When we work with Wes, he becomes a member of the band,” says Ryan. As always, Benscoter formulated striking imagery that conveyed the record’s themes in unflinching style, the cover featuring a bloated and distorted corpse washed up on a beach, its torn abdomen disgorging a mass of waste plastic.
Pre-order The Anthropocene Extinction via Metal Blade Records.
