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Cattle Decapitation – Karma Bloody Karma Reviewer: Kevin Alba Cattle Decapitation continues to impress me with their awesome and unique album covers, which reflect the bands pro-vegetarian anti carnivoreistic stance on food consumption . The band has significantly stepped things up with “ Karma Bloody Karma ” . Hearing parts of the bands earlier albums and seeing them live twice I found a bunch of uninspiring grind core songs. The songs on the new album though are more structured and seem to be lengthier. The album opener “Unintelligent Design” has me drawing more parallels to Suffocation and Cryptopsy rather than Napalm Death and Carcass. That doesn't mean however that the rest of the album is missing the grind element of the ir style because it is very present and very much a part of the bands sound . I t is just used a lot better this time around. Karma Bloody Karma is a lot angrier than previous efforts and this is very evident on “Total Gore?” Speaking of “Total Gore?” nice guitar work at the 2:25 mark! Travis Ryan 's vocals range from brutal death to a higher pitched scream/yelp throughout the album. I do prefer Cattle Decapitation's approach to this style over what I hear from the Black Dahlia Murder. Perhaps Cattle should be getting some of the attention that the Murder has been getting a lot of the past two years? Keyboards and electronics sounds are present throughout the album and positively affect the sound making it more dynamic. “Alone at the Landfill” clocks in at an impressive 7:37 and I must say this is a brilliant epic for this band! Some great tempo changes and sick guitar work are presented throughout the track with back round screams and noises that will send chills down your spine. This is without a doubt my favorite track on the album. The album features guest appearances from Joey Karam (The Locust) and John Wiese (Sun0))), Bastard Noise). Overall I feel that Cattle Decapitation have served up a monumental album for their career and this will be looked at as their “ Number of the Beast ” or “ Master of Puppets ” . From now on when I see Cattle Decapitation as an opening act on the bill of one of my favorite Death Metal acts I will no longer be disappointed but actually a bit more excited to see them. Too bad they dropped off the Decapitated/Krisiun/Six Feet Under packag e as that would have worked well. I know they are headlining a small tour across America at the moment and listening to this album I can see they are ready for that.
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