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CATTLE DECAPITATION Premiere ‘Solastalgia’ Music Video
October 26th, 2023

San Diego, California-based death metal band Cattle Decapitation have released a music video for the track ‘Solastalgia’. Directed by Dave Brodsky of MyGoodEye, the clip can be viewed below.

Cattle Decapitation issued tenth full-length studio album Terrasite on May 12th, 2023 through Metal Blade Records.

The outing can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below.

Terrasite was produced by Dave Otero, once again. Tony Parker of Midnight Odyssey was hired to handle piano and synths.

Terrasite is dedicated to the memory of former Cattle Decapitation guitarist Gabe Serbian, who passed away on April 30th, 2022.

“After a record like Death Atlas, you have to make a turn,” noted guitarist Josh Elmore. “Everything about that album – the concept, artwork, music, etc, was a final statement. The only way to move forward is rebirth. In approaching the newest record, it was not only necessary to keep the musical trajectory the band has been aiming towards since the beginning, but also to further explore the ambient/textural elements that were part of Death Atlas.”

“I wanted to do the 180° opposite of Death Atlas,” added vocalist Travis Ryan. “I already had the concept idea from years back and since Death Atlas was so dark and brooding, I wanted a completely opposite effect – I wanted this to take place in the daylight. I’ve always found daytime horror to be really unsettling so I wanted to make sure what was going on on the cover took place in the light of day, which also finds its place within the lyrics.”

The album title Terrasite was invented by Ryan. “The combination of the two means ‘earth-eater,’” he explained. “Its a metaphor for humanity’s role in the destruction of the planet and is a play-on-words of the very fitting word ‘parasite.’”

Cover artwork was designed by longtime collaborator Wes Benscoter. “We’ve all heard the old saying about how the cockroach is so pervasive… so invasive… so insidious… that they could survive a nuclear war…,” commented Travis Ryan.

“Our previous album, Death Atlas, left the world blackened and lifeless.. or so we thought. It turns out that the carbon-encrusted bodies that adorned the album’s layout and music video (and that resemble the victims of Pompeii that were frozen in time by the Mt. Vesuvius disaster of 79 A.D.) were actually more of a cocoon stage for something much more vicious to come: Humanity 2.0.

“On the cover we see the terrasite, aka ‘earth-eater,’ molting from its ootheca. Having lived the tortuous existence of being a human, they have now re-emerged into a new world… saddened… confused… PISSED; rebirthed as a new variant of human disease, now adapted to continue and finish the utter ravaging of its home planet, Earth.”

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Terrasitic Adaptation’
02. ‘We Eat Our Young’
03. ‘Scourge Of The Offspring’
04. ‘The Insignificants’
05. ‘The Storm Upstairs’
06. ‘… And The World Will Go On Without You’
07. ‘A Photic Doom’
08. ‘Dead End Residents’
09. ‘Solastalgia’
10. ‘Just Another Body’

Cattle Decapitation’s line-up is as follows:

Travis Ryan (vocals)
Josh Elmore (lead guitar)
Belisario Dimuzio (rhythm guitar)
Olivier Pinard (bass)
David McGraw (drums)

Terrasite was made available in the following vinyl colours; “The Fleshy Architect” orange / peach marble (US exclusive), “Hadean Eon” orange blend (US exclusive), “Gomorrah’s Flora” green blend (US exclusive), “Winds Of Solastalgia” purple blend (US exclusive), 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive), “Pupa To A Nymph” in black ash smoke vinyl (LP1) and skin marble (LP2) (EU exclusive, limited to 700 copies), “Irradiated Alight” sunset marble (EU exclusive, limited to 500 copies), “Living Death Spirituality” white with purple splatter (EMP exclusive, limited to 300 copies), “Terrasitic Jizzplosion” clear with gold splatter (EU exclusive, limited to 300 copies), and “Life Finds A Way” clear with green and purple splatter (EU exclusive, limited to 300 copies).

Music videos were released for the tracks ‘We Eat Our Young’, ‘Scourge Of The Offspring’ and ‘A Photic Doom’. All three clips can also be viewed below.

Ninth studio album Death Atlas was released in November 2019 via Metal Blade.

Promotional photograph by Nick van Vidler.