Wormwood Chronicles recently caught up with CATTLE DECAPITATION's Travis Ryan. The following is a brief excerpt from the interview:

WC: I understand Cattle Decapitation has been on the scene for ten years now. Did you ever think you'd still be going strong to this day?

Ryan: "Ten years... I don't know, man. There was a brief period in the very begining where we didn't think there would even be any years. At first we thought it was just going to be a fuck around band. Then around 2002 we knew we were in it for good, like, when we signed with Metal Blade."

WC: What was it about death metal that made you gravitate towards it?

Ryan: "Well, I always wanted to hear the next most extreme thing. When I first heard Master Of Puppets, I was like, Fuck! Then I wanted to hear something even more brutal, you know?... there was SLAYER and DEATH, and shit like that. So that's pretty much how I got into it."

WC: So where does all this hatred for mankind derive from on Karma Bloody Karma? I mean, it's been in your music before, but, it really comes through loud and clear on this one.

Ryan: (Laughs) "Well, I just wanted to get that out of the way, you know, get it out in the air. I kind of blew my load as far as that shit is concerned on this record. I can't really get any more explictly hateful towards humans period, than on this record. I'm thinking about maybe going back to the gore shit, I don't know, (laughs). We'll see. Karma Bloody Karma was the record I've been wanting to write for a long time. I don't know, I guess it goes along with the whole theme of the band, you know? It was like a be all, end all kind of record, at least lyrically I thought. So I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna do from here on out (laughs)."

WC: I hear black metal in your sound on this album. Was this element brought into sound as just simply an influence? Or was it something that you thought would make Cattle Decapitation more unique?

Ryan: "We never really thought about it. It's not like - 'Oh, let's do a black metal part.' To tell you the truth, I'm not really there for a lot of the songwriting. They bring me tapes or I'll come in later after they've been working shit out and we talk about stuff. We've all been into black metal for a long time. I kind of stopped listening to metal almost all together, except for a lot of black metal. There's not much death metal I give a shit about anymore except for the old stuff. I definitely don't like the new wave of bands, (laughs) But, I know we didn't make a conscious effort to do that. We just wanted to spice things up."

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