METAL BLADE
Cattle Decapitation hadn’t played pure grindcore for ages, yet there was something just as extreme about their eighth album, Terrasite. Teetering between tech-death, black metal, grind, and whatever Travis Ryan had lodged in his throat, it furthered the fucked-up foundations established on latter-day records The Anthropocene Extinction and Death Atlas. Terrasite caterwauled with strangled anthems, destructive breakdowns, and even some bleak-asthe-news clean vocals punctuating the coda Just Another Body. Harrowing but insanely catchy, Terrasite sounded like nothing on Earth.