When you've been around since 1996, and you've built a steady underground following by playing extreme death metal/grindcore, and then all of a sudden a bunch of new, young deathcore bands come along and steal your thunder by squealing like pigs and playing breakdown after breakdown, you're bound to get a little ticked off. So it is with Cattle Decapitation. Read more...

Cattle Decapitation have never minced words when it comes to their disdain for minced meat -- or any other kind of meat for that matter. So, why would a restaurant in their hometown of San Diego name a burger after the grindcore veterans? Simple, there's no meat in the burger.

The Cattle Decapitation burger at Hamilton's Pub and Cafe is an all-vegan patty made from black beans, garlic, corn, potatoes and a secret mix of spices. The burger comes with homemade pub chips and a side of vegan sweet coconut curry sauce.

The burger is now available on the menu for $7.50. On January 20 Cattle Decapitation's new album The Harvest Floor will be on the menu of most decent record stores and online outlets. Click "more" to find out how you can hear it streaming in full. Read more...

In anticipation of the new album by Napalm Death, Time Waits For No Slave -- which comes out in the U.S. February 10 and rips like a hungry zombie -- we're thrilled to present a bunch of footage of the band's January 12 show in Bucharest, Romania. Read more...

For the rest of the month, Baltimore, Maryland death metal/grindcore pugilists Misery Index will be wrapping up their North American tour with Black Dahlia Murder and Soilent Green, then they'll head over to Europe for a tour with Hate Eternal, Aeon and See You Next Tuesday which launches January 9 in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Before they head off, we'd like to toast their continued success by premiering their new video for "Traitors." The clip was directed by Dave Brodsky of MyGoodEye in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and rips like a pantleg snagged on a rusty nail. Forgive our crappy simile and click "more" to watch the vid and read the band's comments. Read more...

Richard Hoak, who has played drums for Brutal Truth on every record since their second disc, 1994's Need to Control, has contributed music for a new short film called "A Short But Interesting Message From God" -- and it's the last thing Brutal Truth fans would expect. There's are no buzzsaw guitars or throat-slashed vocals. Hell, there's not even a beat.

Instead, Hoak, who goes by the name Peacemaker, has assembled an ambient collage of reverberating tones, somewhat reminiscent of the disturbing soundcapes in David Lynch's "Eraserhead," and layered these "transformational noises" atop footage by Ed Ballinger of Punkmonkey Pictures. In addition to working with Peacemaker, Ballinger's Punkmonkey has shot videos for Hoak's other band Total F--king Destruction, Withered, Mouth of the Architect and others.

Click "more" to watch "A Short But Interesting Message From God" and other Punkmonkey/Peacemaker collaborations. Read more...

What is it about grindcore and vegetarians? It's not like there's a connection between insanely fast riffs, blinding blastbeats, indecipherable vocals and healthy eating. Yet Carcass, members of Napalm Death and Cattle Decapitation forgo the consumption of meat -- despite having canine teeth suited for meat-eating mammals -- in favor of green, leafy vegetables.

Then again, if we were musicians and had to subsist strictly on diets of soy products and green vegetables, we'd be pretty angry, too, and, if we didn't wind up writing hateful songs that sounded like the Jonas Brothers of Pink, we might make music in the vein of Cattle Decapitation.

The San Diego grinders recently finished their new album, The Harvest Floor, which will come out January 20. "Sonically, the band has managed to finally capture and accentuate its live intensity that we've become known for and has created one hell of an album from start to epic finish! Conceptually, its misanthropy shall go unmatched. This is it, humans... ferocity at its finest," writes the band on its MySpace.

Click "more" to read more from the band and check out a widget that features an MP3 of the new track "A Body Farm." Read more...

Experimental Grand Rapids, Michigan noise metal band See You Next Tuesday have some strange and wild songs. So, it kind of makes sense that they also have some pretty weird tattoos. Instead of writing a guest blog about their music or making even the slightest effort to promote their ferocious second album, Intervals, which came out October 14, vocalist Fox and guitarist Drew wrote in to totally nerd out about their nerdy tats. And we figured, why the hell not? Click "more" to read on. Read more...

Last week, we posted a guest blog by Cattle Decapitation vocalist Travis Ryan, in which the grindcore growler discussed espoused the virtues of Carcass and explained how his faith in metal was restored when he attended the group's reunion show in Hollywood at the House of Blues.

Even if you weren't there or at any of the other Carcass shows, you can see what Ryan was talking about 'cause, thanks to the magic of bootlegging, a dude who goes by the moniker Sickvideo, has posted a really decent sounding clip of the band. This is about about as you're gonna get with a one camera shoot. Click "more" to watch footage of Carcass' "Jigsore Quandary" and "Carnal Forge." Read more...

Cattle Decapitation vocalist Travis Ryan with Carcass bassist and vocalist Jeff Walker

Pessimism -- Recanting the Saudadeous: My Carcass Reunion Show Experience
by Travis Ryan

I wasn’t going to do it. I honestly can't remember the last time I paid for a show, let alone fifty f--kin' dollars for one. It was actually no surprise to me to hear that Carcass was going to play the States. My band Cattle Decapitation had been talking to various booking agents and managers for the last year or so trying our hardest to land a slot on the tour. Didn't happen. So, I knew there was no way I was going to pay all that to get in. Perhaps we would know one of the support bands and get a hook up that way? At the last minute possible, my buddy Sal hit me up saying they had an extra spot in the car and an extra ticket. I wasn’t going to miss this, especially after the adrenaline and rush of nostalgia that hit me while watching the videos of their performances on the European festivals on the Internet. Read more...

Call Guy Kozowyk confrontational, he'll just smile. Call his band deathcore and he'll likely laugh and spit. The Red Chord frontman may have been one of the people to pioneer deathcore and his label Black Market Activities has signed deathcore acts like Animosity, but that doesn't mean the irascible singer is down with the cause. "I just want to publicly apologize to the world for having any part in influencing any [deathcore] garbage," he recently told Revolver magazine. Click "more" to hear what else he's got to say in this week's podcast. Read more...