CATTLE DECAPITATION check in with the following update:

"We have arrived home from our European tour with GOROD and BEYOND TERROR BEYOND GRACE! We had a blast and it turned out to be a successful headlining run! We'd like to thank BTBG and Gorod for all their help with equipment and everything. You guys really came through and this is probably the first tour we've ever done where there wasn't at least one dickhead in the bunch! EVERYONE was amazing and we all had a great time with ya's... We'd like to give a special thanks to our tour manager/soundguy Stefano for being such an awesome guy and giving us such an amazing tone every night! THANK YOU!!!

And lastly, the fans for showing up and supporting us on our second European tour. We promise to come back more regularly starting after the next album! See you next year!!!"

Cattle Decapitation recently announced that they will be back out on the road in the US on a headline run dubbed the California Blood Tour as it features bands mostly hailing from CA.

Joining the mighty grind metalers Cattle Decapitation is DEVOURMENT, plus searing acts such as KNIGHTS OF THE ABYSS, fellow San Diegans BURNING THE MASSES and newcomers SON OF AURELIUS.

Select dates also feature Sacramento's SLAUGHTERBOX and San Diego's own purveyors of brutality, CONDEMNED. This will be Cattle Decapitation's final US tour for The Harvest Floor record, as the band will commence the writing of their fifth Metal Blade release at the end of the year.

Cattle Decapitation vocalist Travis Ryan had this to say about the tour: "We've had this idea for a tour that was mostly comprised of California bands for quite a while now. I don't know, there was just something about the term 'California love' (popularized by Tupac Shakur) that never quite sat right with us so we came up with something a little more fitting, considering the level of brutality that California has always had under its belt. From the seedy sewers in the big cities to the 'Cowshwitz' communities of central CA to the inhospitable depravity of the dry desert, we decided it was time to show the rest of the US that CaliGOREnia is not just about hippies, silicone bodies and marijuana dispensaries (not that there's anything wrong with that, haha!)"

California Blood Tour dates:

September

29 - Tempe, AZ - The Clubhouse w/ Condemned
30 - Albuquerque, NM - The Launchpad

October

4 - Fort Worth, TX - Ridglea Theatre
5 - Tulsa, OK - The Marquee
6 - Little Rock, AR - Downtown Music
7 - San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit
8 - Metairie, LA - The High Ground
9 - Tampa, FL - The Brass Mug
10 - Stuart, FL - Cruiser's
12 - Orlando, FL - Back Booth
13 - Raleigh, NC - Volume 11
14 - Spartanburg, NC - Ground Zero
15 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar
16 - Wilmington, DE - Mojo 13
17 - Patchogue, NY - Karma
18 - New York, NY - Santo's Party House
19 - Poughkeepsie, NY - The Chance
20 - Buffalo, NY - Club Paradise
21 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's
22 - Detroit, MI - Harpo's
23 - Chicago, IL - Reggie's Rock Club
24 - Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
25 - Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre
26 - Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue
27 - Boise, ID - The Venue
28 - Seattle, WA - Studio 7 w/ Slaughterbox
29 - Portland, OR - Satyricon w/ Slaughterbox
30 - San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside w/ Slaughterbox
31 - Las Vegas, NV - The Farm

November

1 - Hesperia, CA - The Seen
2 - West Hollywood, CA - The Whisky*

* = No Devourment