San Diego's Cattle Decapitation is not your typical grindcore act. While many of their genre peers use gore and dismemberment imagery for shock value, they employ "slaughter" with a specific purpose in mind. Longtime animal-rights activists, the band uses the tools of grindcore and death metal to craft hellish soundscapes that conjure the horrors of the meatpacking plant. With most songs over 3:00, THE HARVEST FLOOR stretches out the traditional boundaries of grind, allowing songs like the album-ending "Regret and The Grave" to build an atmosphere of black metal menace among the furious drums and scorched vocals.
01 The gardeners of eden 02 A body farm 03 We are horrible people 04 Tooth enamel & concrete 05 The ripe beneath the rind 06 The product alive 07 In axetasy 08 Into the public bath 09 The harvest floor 10 Regret & the grave