My intent is to create a document of one band’s decade-long (and still going!) crusade to bring militant veganism to death metal. My investigation will center on two large and amorphous aspects of each record: the sound, and the rhetoric. Sound because to be effective in carrying a message, a band must create compelling music. Otherwise nobody will listen to them. Rhetoric because duh. At the end of my investigation I will conclude that Cattle Decapitation are not very effective at campaigning for veganism, but I will also conclude that they probably don’t care because they’re just trying to be gross and have fun and play death metal.

Assuredly, you are interested in a most profound way.

The project so far:

1) Human Jerky (1999)
2) Homovore (2000)

Updates will come approximately whenever I feel like listening to a Cattle Decapitation record and then writing about it.