by Seth Metoyer

'The Harvest Floor' is an angry onslaught of musical destruction that will rip your face off. There are surprising musical twists and turns around every corner. The album is brilliantly written, produced and engineered. It is definitely the best Cattle Decapitation release in their catalog. - Seth Metoyer, MoreHorror.com

Information about 'The Harvest Floor'

'The Harvest Floor' is the sixth full length studio album by the American band Cattle Decapitation. It was released through Metal Blade Records on January 20, 2009. The album was recorded and mixed at Sharkbite studios in Oakland, California with engineering and production of Billy Anderson.

The artwork was designed by Wes Benscoter, and depicts the outside of a large slaughterhouse with people of the general public being herded inside to meet their demise. A music video was made for the song "Regret and the Grave", depicting a similar idea, with the SWAT police driving numerous people onto the outskirts of a city, putting bags on their heads, and forcing them into cages. It also shows two people being led into a dark, abandoned slaughterhouse and a woman looking desperately out of her cage. All this is shown in between shots of the band playing in a slaughter house.

Video - Cattle Decapitation - "Regret and the Grave" from "The Harvest Floor"

Listen to Tracks from 'The Harvest Floor'

The Harvest Floor Track listing

# Title Length
1. "The Gardeners of Eden" 5:39
2. "A Body Farm" 3:29
3. "We Are Horrible People" 3:56
4. "Tooth Enamel and Concrete" 2:57
5. "The Ripe Beneath the Rind" 2:50
6. "The Product Alive" 3:05
7. "In Axetasy" 4:43
8. "Into the Public Bath" 3:11
9. "The Harvest Floor" 3:07
10. "Regret and the Grave" 4:40

Cattle Decapitation Discography

2009: The Harvest Floor CD/PIC LP+poster (Metal Blade)
Cattle Decapitation's fourth full length album on Metal Blade Records. CD version of The Harvest Floor contains an enhanced portion which sports an I-pod ready documentary titled "Pandemic: The Damnation Epic - The Making of "The Harvest Floor." Features guest performances by Jarboe, Ross Sewage (Impaled), Jackie Perez Gratz (Grayceon), John Wiese and Dino Sommese (Dystopia).

2007: Karma.Bloody.Karma Deluxe LP (Accident Prone)
Cattle Decapitation's fifth full length album. Deluxe hand-numbered picture-disc housed in an embossed gatefold sleeve. Limited to 500 copies worldwide.

2006: Karma.Bloody.Karma CD (Metal Blade Records)Cattle Decapitation's third full length album on Metal Blade Records. Features guest appearances by Joey Karam (The Locust) and John Weise (Sunn0))), Bastard Noise).

2006: Release The Bats: The Birthday Party As Heard Through The Meat Grinder Of Three One G CD/2XLP (ThreeOneG)Features Cattle Decapitation's blistering version of "Sonny's Burning" and many other bands including: The Plot to Blow up the Eiffel Tower, Chinese Stars, Get Hustle, Some Girls, Numbers, Error, Melt Banana, Kill Me Tomorrow, Daughters, Das Oath, Year Future and many more...

2006: Cattle Decapitation/Caninus split 7" (Wartorn)
This is the only split vinyl that Cattle Decapitation may ever do. A split record with NYCs CANINUS = 2 pitbulls on vocals and their crazy owners doing the music. Contains 6 exclusive tracks by Cattle. Comes in a beautifully lavish package complete with die cut cover revealing more gory art inside by Mike Sutfin. Comes in 3 colors of vinyl, one being the "rare" vinyl which is made to look like very pink meat, cooked rare. There are 150 of those. Visit www.wtr004.info to watch the classic animated commercial for the release by Lair Of The Minotaur's Stephen Rathbone, check out mp3s from the record, and order if you like!

2005: Digital Video Destruction DVD (Metal Blade Records)
Metal Blade's compilation of videos by bands such as Cattle Decapitation, Black Dahlia Murder, Daysend, Cataract, Impious, Amon Amarth, Brainstorm, The Crown, Cannibal Corpse, Vehemence, Gorerotted, Ancient, Heavils, Starwood, Beyond the Embrace and many more.

2004: AMP Presents: VOL.3 METAL CD (American Music Press Mag.)
Features the track "The Earthling" from 2004's HUMANURE. Tray card features an up close image of Travis spitting in the air (although the liner notes suggest that it is Black Dahlia Murder-this was a typo). Includes other metal acts such as Entombed, Decapitated, Hypocrisy, Mastadon, Dismember, God Forbid, Dillinger Escape Plan and many more.

2004: Humanure CD/2XLP (Metal Blade Records)
Cattle Decapitation's second full length album on Metal Blade Records and first with drummer Michael Laughlin(ex-Creation Is Crucifixion). Features guest appearances by ex-member Gabe Serbian as well as Justin Pearson and Robert Bray from Gabe's band The Locust. Also a special guest appearance by Scott Miller, first time Cattle Decapitation member.

Cattle Decapitation Official Site