Cattle Decapitation - Travis Ryan

Just gory carcass worship.

For some reason we always get labeled as hardcore vegans. I always thought meat was disgusting my whole life. I know I ate it as a little kid up until I was a teenager. After a while I phased it all out.

That didn’t materialize until I got into the band because there was something to write and talk about as a subject matter. I’ve always loved animals; thought meat was disgusting and never really drank milk. I think the only reason people eat meat is because they were raised on it. Growing up you get addicted to it. Thankfully that never happened to me.

Oh yeah! Our drummer sent me the link to that before the album was even done. We don’t care.

No definitely not. I blatantly stole that from the very first Cattle Decapitation seven inch. The name of the label that put that out was Humanure Atrocities. That word always stuck with me. It seemed like the logical follow to “To Serve Man.”

[laughs] No, I live in Southern California so I do a lot of recycling. We’re not…[laughs]

No but people have sent me stuff in the past that we’ve kept at our booth and stuff.

I’d still be vegetarian but musically who knows. I’d probably have a day job.

I do not right now because we’re touring.

The other guys write all the music, put it on a CD and then I go and write the lyrics. It always comes to me when I’m in the shower or taking a shit. I have a pad of paper in the bathroom.

I think it’s just sarcasm. I will crack up at some of the stuff I write. There is a song we have called Reduced To Paste where some of the lyrics are taken from an infomercial. I’ve never been one to write anything typical. I’m almost going out of my way to not do the same old thing.

He’s amazing. I love that guy. He’s almost diabolical because I would explain something to him, wouldn’t get a reaction, then I’ll come back five minutes later and it’s done.

That’s the thing that pisses us off. I was reading some message from a guy online where he said something like, fuck this shit; I don’t want this shit rammed down my throat. I’ve never preached shit. The lyrics are totally ambiguous. There is nothing being rammed down anyone’s throat except that I’m saying that you as a human are pieces of shit, no pun intended. If we put any links to organizations on our site that’s in our links section which you don’t have to go to.

We’re going out with Deicide a second time for two months. Then after that we’re with Darkest Hour.

We haven’t yet but we’re dying to.

Friends of ours in the band The Locusts go over there and tell us that we need to go there. Their drummer is one of the guys that started Cattle and used to play guitar for us. People always ask them when we’re going there. Our last two records have been banned over there but Metal Blade just started a label in Japan so that will help.

The distributor in Germany, SPV, has said it won’t carry it because of the cover.

Wes Benscoter. Here’s a good piece of info. The cover is being changed for everywhere.

There has been way too many emailing and coming up to us at shows and telling us they can’t find the album. It’s going to get to the point where we won’t have sold a goddamn thing and we need to do something like that. The main reason why we went with a label with Metal Blade was to be everywhere now no one can find the record. We sold a shitload of them on tour which is cool but it’s not a good sign. It’s a good thing as long as it exists. There are 7500 of them out there. Ever since Janet Jackson the FCC has tightened the noose on everything. The Christian ass right wing Bush administration hasn’t helped much. It’s like 1987 all over again. It’s totally bizarre so we’re just changing it to the barren wasteland that’s on the back of the CD. We’re desperate. The music and lyrics speak for themselves. These people who banned us don’t give a shit about the lyrics. They are the most threatening thing on there, fuck the stupid cow on the cover.

by Daniel Robert Epstein

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