Death Atlas, by Cattle Decapitation

Death Atlas

by Cattle Decapitation

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sashavonkarl74 It is rather funny to revisit the MA review page for this album, not to mention the Angry Metal Guy "spitting venom" at "Death Atlas" for being a black metal "bad attempt" or "cover", when in fact it is something I really liked here, being a BM fanatic, I still think this opus is one of Cattle Decapitation really good ones... if not THE one. Favorite track: The Geocide.

deanertechtips Goes pretty hard Favorite track: Bring Back the Plague.

RJ A dark, brooding theme and atmosphere, coupled with a brutally intense, pummeling performance make this not only Cattle Decapitation’s magnum opus but one of the best modern death metal releases period. Front to back this album rips, bangs, slams, and crushes. 9/10 Favorite track: Bring Back the Plague.

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1.	Anthropogenic: End Transmission 02:15		buy track
2.	The Geocide 03:42	lyrics	buy track
Suddenly all of humanity’s past accomplishments and vanities Individuals and families Human bureaucracies Lost in the calamity Those who thought this was a fallacy and those who knew the end was coming The universe it always finds a way to purge the sustainably inappropriate numbers that once surged Death always wins, his molten torch forever burns And to the ashes and the ground we are returned Life exists to infuriate, berate and subjugate the hapless mortals shit-birthed on a human-altered planet earth Apocalypse Sudden death of a metropolis The great anti-natalist Ultra fatalist We fucking needed this… The universe it always finds a way to purge the sustainably inappropriate numbers that once surged Death always wins, his molten torch forever burns And to the ashes and the ground we are returned Life exists to infuriate, berate and subjugate the hapless mortals shit-birthed on a human-altered planet earth Fuck the future Fuck all mankind
3.	Be Still Our Bleeding Hearts 03:54	lyrics	buy track
Every new life is a tragedy in waiting A fresh beginning for hopelessness - a new chance to infiltrate, build, then destroy We all lose everything now We all have no other way out Bizarre, this undying love for this species oppressing the elements we’re made of… The soil is rotten The oceans forgotten The glaciers now molten In our tracks we are frozen Be still our bleeding hearts Death is part of life! Embrace time’s eraser… Ditch the ignorant philanthropy The scale has tipped and not in our favor Approaching 8 billion and counting… Sadly, we require disease, mass murder and blind genocide Every new death is a step towards preservation Eradication in training - an inch towards progress for the future of life We all lose everything now We all have no other way out Be still our bleeding hearts Death is part of life! Embrace time’s eraser… Ditch the ignorant philanthropy The scale has tipped and not in our favor Approaching 8 billion and counting… Unfortunately, we require disease, mass fatalities and extinguishing We have no way to win! This battle already lost to ourselves by the billions Human life is simply not sustainable
4.	Vulturous 04:59	lyrics	buy track
Encircling, enclosing… a population growing Convening, congregating… enveloping, enslaving The carcass beckons to the buzzards Entitled to its pound of flesh The wake picks clean the remnants of once fertile lands Cleared by corporations, distressed by the fucking shit-stain “Man” Living only for ourselves Anything at any time As if tomorrow we will die We are vulturous… Scavenging shit-breeder Ravaging globe bleeder Damaging world eater Ravishing the delights of demise All life on the line! There’s no contingency, future predators determining how you will die… Annihilation designed A horrible, ghastly proclamation That profits dominate what’s right A natural quality of our civilization Our wings fold calmly in the night I need to see our species burning I need to taste the world erased Death is pale from ashes smoldering We need to feel his cold embrace Ave Geocide! This is an emergency, present-day predators now electing generations to die… Extermination defined
5.	The Great Dying 01:12		buy track
6.	One Day Closer to the End of the World 03:47	lyrics	buy track
Awaken to the reality Left stranded, hope has vanished An opportunity for failure one day closer to the end of all life on this fucking planet Death obsessed! Infatuation with cessation Eternal rest - request for death at my behest - held close to the breast Clutched tight with all my might this Smith & Wesson Us humans never learn our lessons Possessed with deep aggression Self-hate - the great depression Confessing love for the end… Why do we keep letting this life come between us? The years won’t wipe away desire for the end times! Exit laughter Exit pleasure Exit appreciation What have we done to this world? All Hail Mortem! All Hail Silence! All Hail Death! Where have you been all our lives? One day closer To the final tragedy Born a life sentence of a hell on earth that we can’t avoid Lust for dying Lust for extinction Lusting for euthanasia What have we done to ourselves? We would never have asked for any of this A chemistry that’s as black as any abyss Before our eyes, deep in our minds hope is swallowed A bleak despair in the air fills the hollows One day we all will mean nothing Shallow graves to tomb the suffering …And the pale horse’s reins pulling my heart strings We walk alone from natality until mortality We navigate lethality until fatality Everything that’s now living will one day meet its demise Out of breath, out of time - a species out of its mind
7.	Bring Back the Plague 04:28 video	lyrics	buy track
Yersinia Pestis! The recurring pandemic Not often enough it seems For these mammalian hosts a systematic invasion is a must These scattering rats Their diseased existence Earth’s megalopoli a plague focus Eradicated with Death’s persistence The density of the populace intensifies and modernized The wrath of “god” bleeds from their eyes …and like the raven this contagion keeps repeating, ever eating humanity to nevermore Every body a host Every body infected Corpses white as a ghost Naturally selected Black Death, you’ve found us Your cloak surrounds us Boundlessly drown us in bacillus countless Bring back the plague Delete those that threaten a new world Start today Dig their graves They’ll find a way to rid the world of finding new tomorrows End of days Dig those graves Bring back the plague Even if it means your own survival is at stake Dig your grave We’ll find a way to rid the world of everyone tomorrow End of days Dig our grave Malignant Virulent Mephitic Anthropomorphic Pneumonic Septicemic Bubonic Anthropologic
8.	Absolute Destitute 04:35	lyrics	buy track
Life… that spark that trajects us into this heavenly body that makes us these carbon-based systems Predators and victims of life on this earth We are birthed with the worst intentions intent to condemn everything with inventions We’re born to destroy and obsessed with the thought of destruction Upon nascency - we become casualties We walk the edge of the scythe taunting eternity An abnormality since our maternity a certain carnality for our mortality Ever the victim of eyes inside our mind that sees this life as an affliction So dead inside, the plot thickens with sickness showing symptoms Extinguished synapses smoldering with persistence of a mind hellbent on suicide A life in love with despair in a world beyond repair A global consensus that the powers that be are against us Helplessness beyond compare We’re flying too close to the sun We play with fire - we tempt our fate - life alights the flame to burn our hate We fall like heavenly bodies burning We fall in the cracks of her earthquake - might be too late We’re flying too close to the sun We play with fire - we tempt our fate - life alights the flame to burn our hate Life… the pulse that leaves us alone on an earth with the worst ideas ever known by the flesh with emotions of stone poisoning land and the oceans A life in love with despair In a world beyond repair A global consensus that the powers that be are against us Helplessness beyond compare A carbon-based disease That brings all life to its knees
9.	The Great Dying II 01:05		buy track
10.	Finish Them 02:55 video	lyrics	buy track
FIRE! On the horizon Incineration of a species The cremation of a disease With flame and gases reducing to ashes Entire nations - all human communities Poisoning everything - stripped of all immunities This is the way we deal with our own kind Self-destructing power of the human mind Burn! Back from whence you came Return to carbon once again Now we see that the true evil has a face Now we know the devil is the human race Cursed be our society which finds its end rather dramatically Part anthropologic, part organically the course of nature knows no amnesty On the smoldering horizon The fumes of sulphur choking out Poseidon The ocean boiling its contents Mother Nature on the offense Sterilizing the earth with flame Beating humanity at its own game Their footprint now buried in the soot of a pale horse with a cloven hoof We purge with fire and we finish them We light the fuse and we diminish them We fight the fire with a nuclear flash Deconstruct everything that’s built to last We fuck biology’s eye sockets We skull fuck futures for our profits We’d kill the universe given the chance Emptied of time by its draining sands So we burn… Never to extinguish
11.	With All Disrespect 04:31	lyrics	buy track
You, the epicenter of my contempt I, the emperor of sweet revenge Stripped of all sovereignty, left in the ditch Devoid of a soul, evil with eyes of pitch Opportunistic, parasitic bottom feeder A plastic imitation of confidence, optimism and competence The unknowing host now falls prey to your sociopathy Your predatory bullshit and your disgusting parasitoidism It’s dark upstairs, in your eyes there’s nothing there Vacuous and hollow Like the relationships you hold An execration of your being A detestation of your entirety Antagonistic waste of time - a lesion on the soul and mind Self-cannibalistic and sadistic yet self-eulogistic Can you hear the end coming? The hunted now does the hunting Do you know you are worth nothing? Simply worth nothing to me Your blood, it flows with failure Can’t help it, it’s in your nature Do you know you’re the enemy? And enemies we delete Can you hear the end coming? The hunted now does the hunting And now we bring home the meat Narcissistic, self-flatulent inhaler A laughable charade of confidence, optimism and opulence The unknowing host now falls prey to your sociopathy Your predatory bullshit and your disgusting parasitoidism Psychrolutes Marcidus! Faecibus Hominum! Cymothoa Exiguas! Faecibus Hominum! Can you hear the end coming? The hunted now does the hunting Do you know you are worth nothing? Simply worth nothing to me Your blood, it flows with failure Can’t help it, it’s in your nature Do you know you’re the enemy? ... And enemies we delete The hunted now does the hunting… and now we bring home the meat.
12.	Time's Cruel Curtain 05:31	lyrics	buy track
Lies that we’ve inherited generation to generation That one can do anything, that all human life is gilded in gold Time doesn’t care for your feelings Time doesn’t know how to hate Time draws the conclusions And the path to your fate No future for those that destroy No rainbow for those that conserve Life is a sentence - time naturally burns Hell on earth that our species deserves Breed before the fires start Bleed out into the dark This need for validation This greedy life’s ambition An element of species narcissism A grandiose idea of self-worth In a vessel of organic matter In a league with its own feces We know that we’re wrong We know what we’ve done Yet we still carry on The curtain has closed As only time knows ‘Cos that’s how it goes Bed of fire or decompose We know that we’re wrong We know what we’ve done Yet we still carry on The curtain has burned No lessons are learned Our ashes in the urn This meeting is adjourned …O into the nothing “What are you now that I once was? What I am now, you will soon be”
13.	The Unerasable Past 02:50	lyrics	buy track
And I count the days ’til we expire our ways And I count the days ’til we expire for always
14.	Death Atlas 09:14	lyrics	buy track
Alas, the deed is done Mankind has come and gone Carbon based life forms reset to day one Fire now rages on We thought we had enough time to redesign through human minds To do our time for this life of crime, seems this is the end of the line We casketed hope in bureaucracy, sunk to the bottom of the sea Out of sight out of mind out of love for money We deserve everything that’s coming We’ll take this world to our graves There’s no fear for tomorrow when there’s no trust for today There’s no ever after… debts have to be paid We deserve everything that’s coming We took this world to our graves… we made its creatures our slaves Shattered the hourglass… an unerasable past… Humans: Demons, deranged and depraved We deserve everything that’s coming! We took this world to our graves! We deserve everything that’s coming! We took this world to our graves! Alas, the deed is done Mankind now dead and gone Post-anthropocene - Earth reset to day one Fire now rages on There’s no fear for tomorrow when there’s no trust for today There’s no ever after… debts have to be paid We deserve everything that’s coming We took this world to our graves… we made its creatures our slaves Shattered the hourglass… an unerasable past… Humans: Demons, deranged and depraved And I count the days ’til we expire our ways And I count the days ’til we expire for always

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