Cattle Decapitation release new song, announce album, remain extreme

San Diego "deathgrind" mainstays Cattle Decapitation have unveiled the first new material from their upcoming studio album.

Never ones for subtlety, 'The Anthropocene Extinction', a follow-up to 2012's 'Monolith of Inhumanity', is again an imposing and assertive offering - as evidenced by new track 'Manufactured Extinct' (listen here).

As the band explains, the new record is a continuation of the themes covered in the aforementioned predecessor record.

"Whereas Monolith Of Inhumanity dealt with what could become of the earth and its life forms had humans continued their present course, with The Anthropocene Extinction we have been transported forward to man’s last gasps, reminiscent of what is currently going on with the Laysan Albatrosses on the island of Midway Atoll. The birds and aquatic wildlife of the Pacific Ocean are mistaking the vast amounts of man-made plastic items for food, ingesting it and are dying in large numbers, rotting where they fall and exposing to the world what is happening to the ecosystems of the earth’s oceans - the most unknown and unexplored part of our planet. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch of the North Pacific Gyre is just part of the problem – there are five gyres on planet earth and they’re all filling with plastic waste outnumbering the plankton vital for the ocean’s ecosystems. The breakdown of the earth’s ecosystems has begun long ago due to human interaction as well as the domino effect that will surely seal the fate for our species: The Anthropocene Extinction."

Moreover, Pantera/Down's Phil Anselmo will feature on track 'The Prophets Of Loss'.

'The Anthropocene Extinction' is due out this August via Metal Blade.