locust/cattle decapitation

[horhey]

everytime i wear a CD shirt people are always coming up to me and telling me that the locust and CD are the same band. i heard that they used to have some of the same members but i just wanted to clear shit up. so whats the connection?

[dr0ne]

ta-da

Cattle Decapitation originally formed in San Diego in
1996. Originally, the lineup featured David Astor on
bass and Gabe Serbian on drums -- both of whom were
then also members of the Locust -- as well as an
unknown guitarist/vocalist, who soon allegedly
vanished without the other members knowing anything of
his whereabouts. Seeking a replacement on vocals, the
band turned to Travis Ryan, who had actually been
playing drums for another San Diego metal band,
Strangulation, in addition to serving as vocalist in a
gore metal band called Anal Flatulence. With Ryan on
board, Astor moved from bass to drums, and Serbian
moved from drums to guitar. This lineup quickly
released two albums, the Human Jerky LP (on the Nevada
label Satan's Pimp) and the Homovore CD/LP.

Next, they added a bassist, Troy Oftedal, with whom
they recorded their third full-length, To Serve Man,
released in the fall of 2002 on Metal Blade, a move
that would expose them to more of a death
metal-oriented audience (as opposed to the
hardcore/grindcore one that they had mostly been
playing to before). Also in 2002, the band added a
second guitarist, Josh Elmore (formerly of 7000 Dying
Rats), who eventually took over as the band's sole
guitarist after Serbian left in order to devote
himself more fully into the Locust. (Serbian now plays
drums in the Locust, replacing Astor, who ironically
had left the Locust so that he could more fully devote
himself to Cattle Decapitation). The members of Cattle
Decapitation are involved in several side projects,
among them Oftedal's punk/metal band
DisreantiyouthhellchristbastardassmanX, Ryan's solo
noise projects as well as 5/5/2000, and UUM, another
noise project involving both Ryan as well as Oftedal.

[skunk carcass]

you know what's werid that i didn't notice til now? to day is 5/5/2005 :D

good way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with some ambient noise

[butthole]

Originally posted by SoulsToDeny
I thought you guys were trying to seperate yourselves from The Locust. I mean, like, Ten Torments of the Damned had a Locust sound to it, but as time went on you started sounding more and more un-Locust. Than with Astor gone and all that I figured you were trying to distance yourself from the whole underground hardcore kind-of crowd that The Locust draws, and trying to gain a more death metal one. You started touring with lots more death metal bands too (with the exception of the BTBAM/Darkest Hour tour).

But now you're doing short songs again, that sound like they're going to be more remiscant of your older stuff. Why do you confuse me so?
Ten TOrments has nothing to do with us. Not now anyways. It came out the week that I joined. Gabe wasn't even anywhere near being in the locust at that point. dave was the only member and he just wanted to play death metal. So ten torments was more of an attempt to be more brutal:p I guess, I don't know... Human Jerky is drastically different cause it was when they added me they wanted to go more grindy/deathy kind of stuff. And I was already doing gore grind on my own. Astor and gabe agreed that they wanted to do death metal. It didn't even sound that way until gabe left, though right before we left we were writing some death metal kind of shit.. I always wanted to blur the lines. Keep it between death and grind... the new stuff is totally like that. But really perverse. There's black metal parts. There's glitcy/tech kinds of parts... all sorts of shit in there.. just doing what we want cause we can... it's a split and it's giving us that freedom. 2 of the songs are ones I wrote for cattle before human jerky came out. but we scrapped em cause I sucked at guitar and writing songs... but these 2 were cool and josh, troy and mike totally reworked them... their not even the same anymore.

And we like to confuse people cause people deserve it.

Oh and we'll do hardcore tours. We'll do death metal tours. Whatever we decide to do with what is offered. Some of them we can't turn down, but that's rare. Haven't done one yet we didn't want to do. Although I was really scared about the darkest hour tour. But that turned out awesome.

[butthole]

Oh yeah the merch store will be up soon. You can order the ten torments through me now if you want... It's kind of pricey though cause of shipping.

$6.50 paypal to humanjerky2000@yahoo.com

be sure to say what its for and all that.

[dr0ne]

People put way too much effort in thinking about the locust era of CD, just listen from Human Jerky on and be happy if you're not a Locust person.



thank you.