90s San Diego deathgrind masters Cattle Decapitation has been working tremendously on their upcoming debut album for eight years, but some jackass leaked it on Reddit. Still, Travis Ryan, Josh Elmore, Dave McGraw, Belisario Dimuzio, and Olivier Pinard didn't want it to bother them and announced it via their band's official social media account.
"Recently we posted that we would be revealing all details to the new album next month." Cattle Decapitation said, "Unfortunately, somebody leaked everything onto Reddit a couple days ago and the user has been doing the same to other bands for a while now."
They added. "We have decided to release the announcement that we were going to do for our new album, "Terrasite", as it has been an idea that was 8 years in the making, and will most likely require an explanation for proper absorption."
The band also explained the meaning of their new album and said that it's about a devourer or destroyer of land or earth and a Post-Anthropocene "Humanity."
"We've all heard the old saying about how the cockroach is so pervasive so insidious so invasive that they could "survive a nuclear war." The band explained. "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-like stage for something much more vicious to come," They said.
For part two, The Terrasite, they mentioned: "On the album's cover we see the terrasite, aka ~Blattodea Humanis Immortalis~ aka "earth-eater", molting from its ootheca as others are beginning to awaken to their new lives."
"Having endured the tortuous existence of being a homosapien, they have now re-emerged into a new world. Frightened, saddened, confused, PISSED." They said. "Re-birthed as a novel variant of human disease, now adapted to the hellish landscape their former lives helped create in order to continue to finish the utter ravaging of its home planet, Earth."
Terrasite will be released on May 12th on Metal Blade Records and is dedicated to the memory of Gabe Serbian.
Tracklisting:
1. Terrasitic Adaptation
2. We Eat Our Young
3. Scourge Of The Offspring
4. The Insignificants
5. The Storm Upstairs
6. …And The World Will Go On Without You
7. A Photic Doom
8. Dead End Residents
9. Solastalgia
10. Just Another Body