Some of the venues you played in support of last year’s Terrasite album were 1,000+ capacity –impressive for a band as nasty as Cattle Decap! Was it your most successful year ever?
“2022 was the worst year on record personally, but it ended rather amazingly with the band playing our first arenas opening for Amon Amarth. It set the tone for 2023, which was nothing but insane shows on the heels of our new album.”
How did Cattle Decapitation blow up to the point of playing arenas?
“I don’t know that there’s any real answer. For lack of a better example, I’ve been calling it ‘the Doom EP effect’. It’s not that Job For ACowboy’s 2005 Doom EP was this magnificent piece of art; what I witnessed was a band receiving a benefit of ‘timing’ in the form of a fucking golden key to the city. Them and Suicide Silence exploded, and it appeared to be from a generation of kids where it hit them all at a certain time in their lives and just popped. We’re seeing it again now with this… what, third wave of deathcore and this ‘new wave of old school death metal’.”