Cattle Decapitation Announces Details of New Album

Cattle Decapitation has issued the following update, revealing details of their new, upcoming album:

"We’re FINALLY done with all the finishing touches of our new album and we feel we’ve finally done it! 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.

"The album is called 'The Harvest Floor,' a title Travis has been kicking around in his head and working towards for the last 2 albums! The actual title refers to the area of a slaughterhouse where the animal (of course in our case it always means the HUMAN) begins the agonizing process of death, usually done with a bolt to the forehead or a slice to the throat. 'The Harvest Floor' is a fitting title for an album laden in gore and the anti-human metaphors and sentiments CATTLE DECAPITATION fans have grown to know and love. Artwork by Wes Benscoter shows the outside of a large slaughterhouse/factory of doom and gloom with the general public being herded inside to meet their demise. The inside of the album layout reveals what’s really inside that slaughterhouse: our misanthropic heroes of GORE (not core) at another hard day of work! Combined with the amazing artwork and conceptually brutal layout, The Harvest Floor also contains an enhanced portion which sports an I-pod ready documentary titled 'Pandemic: The Damnation Epic – The Making of The Harvest Floor' which, simply put, makes 'The Harvest Floor' an apocalyptic multimedia epic!"

Here is the tracklisting for "The Harvest Floor":

1. The Gardeners of Eden
2. A Body Farm
3. We are Horrible People
4. Tooth Enamel & Concrete
5. The Ripe Beneath the Rind
6. The Product Alive
7. In Axetasy
8. Into the Public Bath
9. The Harvest Floor
10. Regret & the Grave

No strangers to guest appearances, CATTLE DECAPITATION has enlisted some old friends for guest vocals including Ross Sewage (Impaled/Ludicra) and Dino Sommese (Dystopia/Asunder). The band has also announced that there is a special appearance by Jarboe (Swans), lending her beautifully haunting voice to the epic death dirge "The Harvest Floor." Jackie Perez Gratz (Grayceon/Amber Asylum) graces a couple tracks with her electric cello and Los Angeles noisician John Wiese also lends his electronic/atmospheric expertise to the album further separating the band from the typical "cookie-cutter" approach applied all too often by today’s extreme acts.

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The Tidal Wave Metal Fest Line Up Announced

The Tidal Wave Metal Festival, born from the now defunct "Making Waves Festival," has announced a tentative lineup for the two-days free event. Celebrating it's 11th year of putting on the heaviest, FREE outdoor music festival on the west coast, Tidal Wave showcases the best thrash, doom, grind, punk, old school metal, etc., that the Bay Area, and beyond, has to offer.

The Tidal Wave is free to concert-goers, completely paid for by banner advertising, sponsorship, donations, and volunteers and is truly unlike any other music festival in existence. The free event is like a picnic in the park, with metal. You may bring whatever you want (dogs, food, coolers, cigarettes, mullets etc. are all ok). There will be raffles for merchandise donated from various sponsors and bands all day all day.

Here is the tentative line-up for The Tidal Wave 2008 festival:

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Mayhem Announce More Tour Dates

For the first time in six years, and quite possibly the very last, MAYHEM will "Deconsecrate the States"! July 2007 is sure to be the hottest on record as the ferocious fires of hell blaze across the U.S. under the cloven-hooves of Norway's MAYHEM. The premiere, the true, the feared, the world's most powerful black metal band will appear in select cities nationwide.

MAYHEM "Deconsecrate the States" tour dates:

July 16 - DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA
July 17 - Galaxy Club - Santa Ana, CA
July 18 - Key Club - Los Angeles, CA
July 20 - Studio Seven - Seattle, WA
July 22 - Joe's - Chicago, IL
July 23 - BB Kings - New York, NY
July 24 - Jaxx - Springfield, VA
July 25 - The Sterling Hotel - Allentown, PA

Check your local listings for support acts which will include NACHTMYSTIUM, SIGH, TODAY IS THE DAY, INTRONAUT, WITHERED, AMBER ASYLUM, LUDICRA, CREMATORIUM, NOVEMBER'S DOOM, MOUTH OF ARCHITECT, DEKAPITATOR.

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Giant Squid March Tour Dates

Giant Squid will be touring in the US throughout March. Here are the tour dates:

Mar 9 2007 8:00P @ The Blue Lamp, Sacramento, California w/ Ludicra, Black Elk, Grayceon
Mar 10 2007 9:00P@ Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco, California w/ Grayceon, Ludicra, Black Elk
Mar 11 2007 9:00P @ The Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, California w/ Ludicra and Black Elk
Mar 12 2007 9:00P @ Zombie Lounge - Metal Mondays, San Diego, California w/ Ludicra, Black Elk
Mar 13 2007 8:00P @ TBA, Phoenix, Arizona w/ Ludicra and Black Elk
Mar 14 2007 8:00P @ Launch Pad, Albuquerque, New Mexico w/ Ludicra and Black Elk
Mar 16 2007 8:00P @ SXSW - Hole in the Wall, Austin, Texas w/ Stolen Babies & Invincible Czars
Mar 17 2007 8:00P@ SXSW - The End Records Showcase, venue TBA Austin, Texas
Mar 18 2007 8:00P @ Rudyard's, Houston, Texas w/ Grayceon
Mar 19 2007 8:00P @ The Double Wide, Dallas, Texas w/ Grayceon
Mar 20 2007 8:00P @ Downtown Music, Little Rock, Arkansas w/ Grayceon
Mar 22 2007 8:00P @ Ravari Room, Columbus, Ohio w/ Mouth of the Architect, Grayceon
Mar 24 2007 8:00P @ Mac's, Lansing, Michigan w/ Grayceon
Mar 29 2007 9:00P @ Abbey Lounge, Boston, Massachusetts w/ Grayceon
Apr 1 2007 8:00P @ The Kyhber, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania w/ Grayceon

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Black Elk To Tour The West Coast and Mid-West

Portland's crushers BLACK ELK will be hitting the road in March on their way to SXSW in Austin, Texas; the ELK will be touring with Bay Area black metallers LUDICRA (Alternative Tentacles) and epic prog/sludge ensemble GIANT SQUID (The End) on the way to Austin, and will be doing a string of dates with TOTIMOSHI on the way back up to Portland. Tour dates will be announced soon.

Here are a few already planned Black Elk gigs:

Feb 16 2007 Berbati's Pan 20 Year Anniversary @ Berbati's Pan Portland, OR
Mar 2 2007 Hawthorne Theatre Portland, OR with Fu Manchu, Valient Thorr, Seemless
Mar 3 2007 Chiribins Bellingham, WA with Bloodhag

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