Genre : Deathgrind
Label : Metal Blade Records
Origin : United States
Rating : 9.0 / 10
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Cattle Decapitation's Monolith of Inhumanity is the evolution of deathgrind as it describes the devolution of humanity. The album sounds to me like a concept record AND a totally-completely ripe at that, with strong and relentless focus kept on the subject matter it seeks to thoroughly examine and immerse the listener into. The subject matter is none other than the title of one of the tracks suggests, as well. It is "A Living, Breathing Piece of Defecating Meat" - AKA you and me - and the suggested anti-value of said construct - human - if and when it suddenly would choose to reject the aspiration of self-development altogether, submitting instead to stimulate its physical senses, exclusively. In a nano-nutshell, that is the concept reigning at the core of the de-evolution of human, and the latest Cattle Decapitation disk indeed is a testament of this process written in blood to the surface of the titular Monolith of Inhumanity. The concept itself is a probable tribute to Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, see : - quite literally - 2001 - a Space Odyssey. How many weeks you think it would take to degenerate a perfectly valid high tech civilization to a shit-and-garbage heap the aggressive neo-neanderthal/enthusiastic Noise Shaft reader depicted on the cover ravages on? 28 weeks? Days, maybe? A superb thing about the whole affair is that it does not rely on cartoon lyrics - "I will beat you to death with the severed head of your child, as a start" and whatnot - and emerges instead to strike up a relevant narrative tone, courtesy of exigent, provocative thoughts, and I dare say that the lyrical content is strong enough to make the music bend to the will and power of its fueling thought-sentiments. Read on to find out more about this.
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