CATTLE DECAPITATION | SCOURGE OF THE OFFSPRING | Is It Hard to Listen To? - Scottish Singer Reacts
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2024
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Whats crazy about travis is he can make the most harmonically dissident vocals sound beautiful and sorrowful in a way i geniunely have never heard someone do. His harmonies are so emotional and just hard-hitting. The songs death atlas and just another body are just something else.
Travis is an absolute monster. Some of his stuff hits just as emotionally as it does brutally. He's really carved a niche. And I can see vocalists been very influenced by him in years to come.
They all are now and I haven’t heard any credit given to him for his goblin and tunnel by any of them.
And he even has a hauntingly beautiful clean baritone. "Just Another Body" hits right in the feels.
Their drummer, Dave McGraw, is one of the most talented, and nicest guys you’ll ever meet. He fully deserves all the praise that comes his way.
He’s literally one of, if not the best out there.
It is double tracked and cleaned up a bit for the album, but he does that strange melodic vocal live. It’s a very nasally high pitched “goblin” vocal, using the nasal cavity almost exclusively. He’s one of the very first to ever do it. Enjoy 🤘🏼🤘🏼
I appreciate you shouting out the quality of the lyrics. I feel it's overlooked aspect of the band. Travis does write great lyrics, and he also makes efforts to clearly pronounce everything he's written (unlike a lot of other extreme bands). Oh, also, check out the extended version of their video "Kingdom Of Tyrants".
I will do! Thank you my dude! i appreciate you taking the time to:)
I agree. This band deserves so much more appreciation than they typically get from outside the genre. 🤘
The Cattle Decap guys are good friends of mine and my husband's and I love watching videos like this where people can fully appreciate them for the badass and supremely talented dudes that they are. Thank you for such an awesome reaction video!
Tell them I said let's jam
Thank you so much, glad you liked it! They started out as a grind/death metal but started to turn into this extreme progressive metal band with the album Harvest Floor. My favourite album is Monolith of Inhumanity. Kingdom of Tyrants off of that album being one of my favourite songs of all time.
My song/album of 2023.
And yes they are veggie/vegan.
I'm 51 and the first metal album I got into was Iron Maiden's Killers. And it was the cover that made me try it. And metal keeps getting better, each decade has been better than the last.
I'm 50, and my first album was Iron Maiden's Live after Death. I love this band and all the new stuff coming out.
HELL YEAH THIS BAND IS AWESOME
Im 50 and have listened to metal over 40yrs now. It's by far my favorite music ever. I really enjoy your reactions . The accent rulesand your personality is kickass. Keep it up!
As a 52 year old music lover. I've been heavily into metal since the mid 80s namely Master of Puppets which just blew my fucking mind when it came out. I've loved all genres of metal through the years including my step sons HardCore Death Metal band Clone the Fragile. I currently love listening to the likes of Gojira, Mesuggah, While She Sleeps, Slipknot, Architects, Bleed from Within( that used to Support CTF back in the day.) BMTH,Carcass,Pantera, Jinjer and recently Sleep Token. It always amazes me the depth and breath of the entire genre. Some I love some not so much. But all has a place. Long live Metal and all it's iterations. The World is a better place for your music. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Bonjour dudette 😃
I'm on my way to silver fox, and to dive back in some more C.D.
Bonsoir my dude! All silver foxes and silver foxes to be are welcome :)
CD are amazing, they really have a unique sound, I really enjoyed your reaction to the melodic bit lol. They’ve definitely changed over the years and just gotten better imo.
I’m gonna once again recommend Once Human - scar weaver, I think you’d really enjoy the melodic growls that girl puts out!
Opinions differ but listen to the whole of Death Atlas in a dark room with the lights out using headphones. That's the album they really crafted and put a lot of themselves into as their definitive statement. Their label put the whole album on youtube.
Super impressive musicians that also write great songs. Death Atlas and Terrasite are just incredible albums.
I'm a silver fox😂😂😂 52 and been listening to Metal fir over 40 years now. My ma was 13 when The Beatles erupted and she got me into rock n roll. They were the first band I remember listening to and it's went from there. I repaid that start by taking her to see Iron Maiden. She is a massive Manowar fan (a band you have to listen to). But the crowning glory was taking her to see Paul McCartney at Giants Stadium in 1990. Please keep doing what yer doing and fuck the naysayers 🤘🏻🇬🇧🏴🖤 Love the Cattle Decapitation as well🤘🏻
P.S. NEVER apologise fir yer beautiful Scottish accent and being Scottish 🏴
There are a significant number of metal bands that are good across the board. By no means a majority, and Cattle Decapitation is one of the best groups in metal out there. Speaking of "silver foxes" (lol) these guys have been at it almost 30 years and they're still cutting edge. They're as old as me! And yes the name threw me off too, a friend of mine turned me onto them not that long ago. Great reaction!
Yeah I was so impressed! I was ready to be content with them but I think the talent on display here is fantastic. They are doing not bad for a bunch of Silver Foxes :P
I think the name cattle decapitation is really fitting. A lot of there music is ment to spread awarness about animal rights issues such as the horrors of factory farming for example and to spread awarness about ecological issues that are destroying habitats such as pollution and climate change. If you look at the album cover for the anrhropcene extinction its ment to represent segals that die from eating plastic on the beach and you can see the plastic still there in perfect condention spilling out after the seagal itself starts to rot. I think its fitting that they are bringing awarness to these issues in the disturbing way that they do becouse these are issues that people should find disturbing.
Cattle decap is my favorite band. Travis is such an underrated vocalist.
Hey Dude! At 54 I'm definitely a Silver Fox hahaha. But seriously, I was around when the early Trash scene started and all the Black Metal and NWOBHM hit our ears in the early 80's. My Dad listened to Black Sabbath and that whole early Metal scene of the 70's as well. These are still my favorite eras for Metal but, I absolutely love the new stuff: Opeth, Tesseract, In Fkames and a lot of Death Metal bands. I've never listened to Cattle Decapitation but from what I've just heard, I sure will explore them further. They remind be a bit of Meshuggah, probably because of the drumming and the vocals a little.Thanks for that great discovery!
Thank you Andre 💜
I'm old enough to have gotten a Gene Simmons "Demon" action figure for Christmas when I was a kid. It had tongue attack action and removable armor (I think?) I don't think I had even ever heard a Kiss song, but that's the power of image. Once I got to the teen years, though-Thrash and Punk leavened with Alternative was everything. I love where the genre(s) are going, there's always something cool out there, you just have to look. Music is the only real magic, in my humble opinion. Oh, and Travis is amazing, and Cattle Decapitation kicks ass.
So, fun fact is that their last four albums are essentially one big story. If you're really into the harmonious stuff, then focus on Death Atlas. That "goblin-esque" vocal started a tad in Monolith, then they got a bit more into it in Anthropocene Extinction, and then in Death Atlas they fully leaned into it. Terrasite (this album) they reverted back to a bit more of their heavier style, and the goblin vocals sprinkled throughout. Cattle are my favorite band of all time, and it is because, as you said, they do all three parts of making music, very well. Some might say (myself included) musical genius.
I'll check out these suggestions. I really do love a good long set of concept albums so thats pretty cool. Thanks for watching my dude :)
Ps the video uses AI. They acknowledge it in the credits, and the guy who edited the video credited himself as an "ai artist" (quotation marks included), which i guess tells you what you need to know about their and the band's beliefs on the matter
That was the first thing I noticed and hated.
@@ucitymetalhead the AI video? I wish they didn't use it (they've not used it before or since) but maybe they were asked to by the label or something 🤷🏻
Why, it's cool technology. @@ucitymetalhead
I have never listened to them before today. Maybe a little put off by the name, but they were pretty good. A lot of nice riffs going on there.
Ooh, interesting choice (of the ones i mentioned). Travis is a colossal vocalist.
Edit: they used to be more intense and wrote shorter songs, more in the style of grindcore. They've evolved into this well rounded band that mixes death metal and grindcore and has started using those "melodic" vocals more. It creates a very interesting blend.
The band at one point, as far as i know, were all vegan. I'm not sure if they still are or if some are just veggie or whatever, but yeah. They aint about killing animals, and they've been talking about various environmental issues and disasters caused by humans for a couple of decades now.
i just saw them live and yeah travis sounds exactly like the recordings and he pulled off a run that i think amazed the entire crowd. watch some live footage.
Silver definitely, but it's been a bloody long time since I was a fox! Grew up on Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, Iron Maiden etc, and to be honest, I was initially turned off Metal when it went Thrashy... if that's even a word? But it was Opeth that changed my mind about how good growly metal could be, and now at 57 years old, I'm enjoying Cattle Decapitation.
Almost the same story mate. 53 here, grew up on Maiden, Sabbath, Hawkwind, Led Zep, though unlike you I embraced the thrash scene. Almost completely gave up on metal in the Nu-metal days. Randomly discovered Opeth when they released Watershed and they were the band that got me back into metal and got me to finally enjoy growls! Now also loving Jinjer and Cattle Decap after discovering them. Getting to see CD in a couple of weeks for the first time.. can't wait \m/
My favorite band! Seen them live 4 times. Travis is the originator of so many people using guttural with the pig squeals. Signs of the Swarm and Lorna Shore and a natural evolution from where CD really took off
While they toned down the gory and over the top songs over the years, the lyrics are still hyper violent and poignant. They're lyrics don't shy away from their stance on treatment of earth, animals, people. Their album Blood Karma started a different writing style, Harvest Floor had a tiny bit of what you hear in this song, then Monolith came out and absolutely broke the death metal scene. Forced Gender Reassignment was a song ahead of current issues by a decade. It solidified this style and Travis using the goblin vocals more. *Tons* of bands would adopt this style switch going forward. Since Monolith they've had 4 albums, including the one this track is from, and each one has been a solid banger. I personally didn't like Death Atlas as much but that's just me. 10/10 band
Thanks for this my dude! Very helpful :)
Impressed by your openness and how far you have gotten in this journey. Not quite my cup of death metal, as I am not really a fan of the grindcore - Cannibal Corpse-side of death metal. This is quite groovy and great sounding though.
... Good musicians, vocalist(s) and lyrics, you say? ... Check out Insomnium "Songs of The Dusk", and "Lay of The Autumn"
I love your reaction videos and those hilarious remarks! Keep up the good work. 🤘
Thank you! Will do my dude 😊💜
@8:53 : A band that's excellent with their instruments and lyrics (some will debate on the vocals) is Meshuggah.
Specific songs:
Dancers to a Discordant System
New Millenium Cyanide Christ
Just stumbled across this channel, and you're awesome! Also always great to see someone discovering the wonder of cattle decapitation
Thanks Nevie! I’m so glad you found us 😊 more to come 💪
@SoulSingerDiscovers Awesome! If you plan on doing any pore cattle decap reactions, I would highly recommend their live performance of lifestalker at party san festival. It is probably one of the best live performance videos I've ever seen
This video was made using Midjourney's AI VERY EARLY into it's creation, by inserting the lyrics of the song. These images are what came out.
i first caught on to this band around the time of "Bring Back The Plague" from their Death Atlas album. first song i think i'd heard from them, at least that's when i really started getting into them anyway.
this song,is not dissimilar. to my ears. same general style.
and personally i like that style.
I am in my forties myself and I noticed or rather my children noticed my first gray beard hairs. the hair is still long and dark brown.
Finally a reaction to Cattle 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 this is heavily and brutal and technical band and this vocals are out of this world
"Cattle" as in humans blindly doing what someone tells them to do. So, their name is a way of saying people being led to the slaughter.
However, one of their albums opens with the audio of an infamous Russian decapitation video that was all over the web decades ago.
this is fun stuff for me
It’s a lot more fun than I thought it was gonna be :)
You might like Kingdom of Tyrant's and Finish Them , Travis's voice is just wild....
I’ll check it out! Thanks DW 😊💜
@@SoulSingerDiscovers Kool you will like them . Travis voice does some different sounds on these , they are older songs like 3 years and i think 8 years old...... Later Richie..
Well they started out as gore grind and the original Human Jerky, Homovore, To Serve Man etc were very much lo-fi compared to the past 5 albums, with the Harvest Floor really being the point when they started to evolve to what they are today. Primarily down to Dave McGraw taking over the drumming duties.
The next and biggest change came on the Monolith of Inhumanity album when Travis decided to unleash is high melodic vocal styles and at this point they pretty much became the force they are today!
As for what to check out next Solastalgia is in my opinion a work of art - but then again so is Death Atlas - just watch both! :)
Love this band : started off as Deathgrind evolved into mainstream Death Metal and are now into the territory of Progressive Death (god I hate all these ridiculous sub-genres) especially if you listed to Death Atlas (their previous album) which has prog written all over it and is my favourite of theirs
Yoooooo! Cattle Decap is great
Check out Bring Back the Plague from the same album. Also, just use the abbreviation I used. Fewer tricky bits, also dare you to say my handle lol!
That chorus just gets e to tears almost every time
I highly recommend Merging with Sword Onto Them by Leviathan
Thanks, Ill check it out :)
These guys are really cool, I love that New York record shop that has bands and artists in doing whats in my bag? These guys did it and I think their choices would shock a lot of people. Death metal has a ton of hidden gems, like Nile with their ancient Egyptian vibe/theme/lyrics and are incredible musicians.
I had to subscribe after discovering you 😊
Yasss!! :)
Cattle Decap is incredible. Been listening for almost 2 decades, and they have definitely come a long way in sound.
Their best early stuff is probably off of the album "To Serve Man". Though with this song as a point of reference, you won't even recognize them.
I'll check out the early stuff then. Thanks for watching my dude :)
@@SoulSingerDiscovers Was my pleasure! Thanks for your extremely fair take on the music. So many will just write it off immediately, especially if this sort of thing isn't their usual. Whereas you took the time to dissect the sound more. Managed to make me laugh more than a few times along the way.
The accent really helps too. Quite charming all tied together I must say!
completely off topic. I'm heading to Scotland in July and wondering if you may be performing somewhere while I'm there. Is there a site I can keep an eye on?
Glenn! Yes more than likely I will be playing in or around Glasgow! Best bet is my instagram that I pop up my gigs on @melisa.kelly failing that just tag me in a comment not long before you head up :)
It is AI. Also you can shorten their name to Cattle Decap. And yes they have a very low opinion of humanity. Love Cattle Decap. For a band that is so outwardly aggressive, they are still quite melodic, and you are still able understand the lyric's in Travis's vocals. Which is quite hard to do in this genre.
Cattle Decapitation has 100% evolved, I would argue starting with Monolith of Inhumanity.
Pre-Monolith I felt as if they were focused on two things:
Grindy Grindcore (short, overwhelming songs shoving as much as possible into them).
Adolescent gross-out lyrics that were focused on advocating for the rights of animals.
Post-Monolith they moved away from the second and added the Death Metal elements we hear today in their sound, moving from Grindcore to DeathGrind. More complexity, longer songs, willingness to add harmony/pseudo-clean vocals.
Their messaging has also moved away from purely being about the rights of animals to being about how humans are awful animals hell bent on our own destruction.
Monolith of Inhumanity: Cover art includes a crossover between the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey and a planet-of-the-apes-esque humanoid who is distraught at the destruction around them
Anthropocene Extinction: The humanoid is dead in an industrial apocalyptic wasteland with plastics spilling out of its guts
Death Atlas: A grim reaper-Atlas holding-the-earth crossover
Terrasite: A humanoid depiction of a termite as a parasite emerging from the rotting corpse of a human in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and looking on in terror/sorrow at what the human race brought on the planet.
Not a patreon member still and I am so embarrassed to put up a song request but still,will you be able to react to Web of lies by Joshua Travis when you get the time.?The song is total alienation,brutal and not for the faint of hearts....Thank you....🫶
well I dye my hair so who knows if I'm a silver fox or not but my first album was Stay Hungry by Twisted Sister.... might give it away ;-)
Yeah, this was a good one. I like Cattle Decapitation for their mature style, good lyrics and sick humor. Well, not much of this here, but this was a "nicer" video of them. A classic would have been "Forced Gender Reassignment", where you see them kidnapping American extreme homo-/transphobe religious protestants from the street to do a, well, forced gender reassignment to them. In a lot of gruesome bloody graphical details ...
So, where to go from there?
Well, there is one step up into the extremes.
Infant Annihilator. Try the "Blasphemian" video.
Insanely well-made growling, maybe the best you can get in guttural vocals, insane instrumental skills and deathcore songwriting, mental but very funny humor and the most extreme lyrics you may find. Ever. Therefore, I can not recommend any of their lyrics videos for a first contact with the band. They are worse than e.g. the "Blasphemian" video, which one reactor , that I recommended it to, called her personal "imagination of what hell is".
But I don't recommend them for the shock factor. I recommend them for the insane instrumental skills and Dickie Allen's monstrous vocals. He is really that good. Alex Terrible from Slaughter to Prevail felt honored when they asked him to participate in one track of their album. Because, let's face it: Dickie Allen is even another huge step up from what Alex does. No hard feelings, it is just like it is and not a shame. I know nobody who is doing vocals like Dickie Allen.
And last but not least, Infant Annihilator are three very funny and nice polite young men who fully deserve all the internet hype around them. If you ask anyone, who is more extreme in extreme metal, you probably get the answer: None.
But I digressed (no regret).
This was another nice video reaction. I really enjoyed it!
We make you a metalhead. If you aren't already.... If you like Cattle Decapitation, the longest part of the way is gone.
🙂
Have a great week and a not shitty Monday!
All the best, a fat wet smoochie on the face, just to get ahead of you, and make the best out of everything, my dear Scottish dudette! ♥
Travis in great both in his range and his lyrical content. No one does that creature growl but him. U gotta read the lyrics. The subject matter is the best part. As far as their old albums, to me they’ve only gotten better and better. Terresite is their best album.
How about doing some Oriental/Middle Eastern metal?
Do some Orphaned Land! you won't regret it.
Sigh - Shiki
Never heard of them, tried a couple of songs and might be interested.
Thanks for the suggestion!
they sound more like Meshuggah now. Maybe I'm wrong, but this is not how I remember them.
Well, since you've asked, I was trapped in an elevator, today, and had to be rescued by firemen (and, no, they weren't the hot ones from the videos!).
Okay! Im not gonna lie I laughed a lot at this. Are you telling me the internet has lied to us??? If I am ever trapped in an elevator I want to be rescued by a solid 9, or just leave me there ;)
@@SoulSingerDiscovers Well, perhaps, not the internet, but, definitely, pornhub!
It was, kinda, fun being trapped in said elevator, because I'm not, always, the best with things (I think of them as coffins on strings). So, it was nice to break that cherry! (Now, about that video I need to make...🤔)
Been a fan since the late 90ies, although never a big one. Their early work is very different from what they create now; it was much more brutal, best described as gore-grind or extreme death metal. They rose to some prominence in their early career by creating a video that was banned off most websites and certainly television, for their song "Forced Gender Reassignment." You can imagine the content of the video; back then they were equally for their pro-"nature"/anti-human message as they were for shock value.
They've matured a lot over the decades and their newest stuff is far more accessible in terms of intention, content and construction, but I also tend to think their songwriting has matured a lot as well. They still retain aspects of their initial sound, but there is a lot more influences and variety in their compositions these days; they manage to both pay homage to their early roots while being able to challenge themselves as artists, which I think is a great service to their fans and the metal community. It has brought them a lot of well deserved success and recognition beyond the pure shock value they went for in their early career.
I still think you should react to Archspire, but you certainly have a lot on your plate!
What a wonderfully well balanced comment. Thanks for watching my dude 😊
Obligatory "YOU TELL EM ROSIE!!!" post
Not that much my cup of tea, Melisa. But Gossip are be touring, again. I'll be in for the show in Hamburg. But they'll also tour the UK.
Watched 'em 3 times: always wonderful. (1st time, there was a troll in the audience. But never again, I've experienced any unfriendly person in
the audience. And: this speaks words, I think. ) Try get a ticket. They have been amazing, in the past.
I'm 35 years old today is my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!
Aw i missed a chance to wish you happy birthday! Hope you had a great day! :)
hasta a mi me dieron ganas de desaparecer con este video
Is that a hamburger telephone? now I'm hungry
It is. It’s not hooked up but I do talk to people in it :)
Interesting fact Travos is Vegan !!!!!!!
Death Atlas was just as good.
Travis is also vegetarian pro animals.
wait....when the hell did they start singing?!?!?
I think he first started doing that "melodic" singing on Monolith of Humanity, if I'm remembering correctly
that music is sooo disgusting hahaha i like it : D
VOMIT METALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Cat Decap is great, and has been for YEARS. Glad you started off with this track though, getting your first taste by getting memed on reacting to forced gender reassignment surgery can be a bit much. I always appreciate your ability to dig into what makes these bands great, even on a first listen. Some might call it genius.
I deliberately avoided that track in my recommendations cause I figured she'd have had folk suggesting it cause it's always the one people seem to want reactors to listen to first 😂
Forced Gender Reassignment is an unironically great track though.
Not my cup of tea.
Thats totally fair!
Death Metal Is Dead
Pop music is all filler, no substance.
Respectfully I disagree.