If you wanna hear one of the best death-grind albums of the year, get your ass in here: Metal Blade won’t release Monolith of Inhumanity — Cattle Decapitation‘s latest, and strongest, release to date — until May 8, but you can listen to the entire thing right now, right here on MetalSucks. The band has really stepped up their efforts here as both songwriters and musicians, crafting songs that are pummeling, visceral, and epic. And let there be no doubt: Travis Ryan may very well deliver the diverse and elastic death metal vocal performance of the year on Monolith of Inhumanity, switching between styles the way a schizophrenic switches personalities. His work on this album is, in a word, stupendous.

Listen to Monolith of Inhumanity below, then pre-order it in advance of next week’s release here. Cattle Decapitation are currently on tour with Origin, Decrepit Birth, Aborted, Rings of Saturn, and Battlecross; get dates here. They’ll also be a part of this summer’s Shockwave Festival along with Fear Factory, Voivod, Misery Index, Revocation, Havok, Last Chance to Reason, Vildhjarta, The Browning, and Forged in Flame; you can get dates for that tour here.

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