Human Jerky (Human Jerky - Cattle Decapitation)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Human Jerky - Cattle Decapitation
Date:	13/04/08 (16 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Better guitars than most grindcore.

Disadvantages: It's still the same old grindcore excrement.

Most needlessly gore-obsessed death/grind bands like to have their own little gimmick, and Cattle Decapitation's niche is vegetarian, animal rights, anti-human grindcore. It's won the band many fans in animal rights circles, though whether they actually enjoy the music is another question.

This eighteen-track release (on Satan's Pimp Records) clocks in at just over twelve minutes, which allows you to instantly recognise that many songs run to less than a minute in length, typical for grindcore but also a clear sign of a band without much to say - or perhaps with too much to say, but lacking the patience to follow each argument through - and indeed, each subsequent release would tend to feature longer and longer songs until they were almost radio friendly (if we lived on a different planet, that is).

The vocals are the typical mix of demonic shrieks and nauseating burps as all grind bands have performed since Carcass' debut, but credit has to be given here to one of the most disgusting vocal performances it's ever been my misfortune to experience. It's really horrible, sounding like genuine vomiting in track nine, which enhances the band's typically disgusting subject matter. Even more impressive are the death metal moments that work their way in, leading to some effective slow-downs in songs like 'Flesh-Eating Disease (Flu-Like Symptoms of E-Coli With Complete Digestive Shutdown)' which manages to be just long enough for a structural change to actually mean anything, but which still doesn't take as long to listen to as it does to read its title.

1. Cloned For Carrion
2. Parasitic Infestation (Extracted Pus, Mistaken For Yogurt, and Gargled)
3. Unclogged and Ready For Spewage
4. Gestation of Smegma
5. Mute Rain
6. Flesh-Eating Disease (Flu-Like Symptoms of E-Coli With Complete Digestive Shutdown)
7. The Decapitation of Cattle
8. Constipation Camp
9. Intro to Carnage
10. Cream of the Crop
11. Mad Cow Conspiracy (Bloated Bovine-Home to Flies and Anthrax Spores)
12. Veal and the Cult of Torture
13. Stench From the Dumpster
14. Body Snatcher (Viscrea Intact-Ripe For Devourment)
15. Roadkill Removal Technician
16. Bovine, Swine, and Human-Rinds
17. Bludgeoned, Beaten, and Barbequed
18. Colon-Blo

Summary: Cattle Decapitation's first E.P. (1999).