as CATTLE DECAPITATION takes the stage ominous atmospheric sounds settle over the room like dark clouds.

Then the band kicks into the title track of its new album, Death Atlas, bombarding the crowd with distorted chords and incessant double-bass as lead singer Travis Ryan issues demonic decrees:

Alas, the deed is done
Mankind now dead and gone
Post-Anthropocene,

Death Atlas... includes elements of death metal, grindcore, black metal, sludge, doom, drone... a 60x42 Post-Anthropocene Map, of a climate-ravaged future Earth. The familiar contours of our puzzle-piece continents have been disfigured by rising seas. Australia-sized islands of garbage whorl at the center of all major oceans.”