Cattle Decapitation's stance against the ills of humanity takes a scathing new turn as they look to "Bring Back the Plague" on their newest single off the forthcoming Death Atlas album.

Prepare yourselves for the most melodic song of the band's career, which in no way loses its grip on the skull-smashing brutality Cattle Decapitation have made their name on.

Expanding on the atmospheric touchtones of "One Day Closer to the End of the World," "Bring Back the Plague" further embraces cinematic melodic black metal qualities, but it's vocalist Travis Ryan who steals the spotlight. You're reading this right — there's a bona fide hook sung in that nasally, snarling "clean" voice of his.

Read the lyrics and listen to the new song below.

Yersinia Pestis The recurring pandemic

Not often enough it seems

For these mammalian hosts

A systematic invasion is a must These scattering rats

Their diseased existence

Earth's megalopoli, a plague focus

Eradicated with Death's persistence The density of the populace intensifies and modernized

The wrath of God bleeds from their eyes

And like the raven, this contagion keeps repeating, ever eating

Humanity to nevermore Every body, a host

Every body, infected

Corpses white as a ghost

Naturally selected Every body, a host

Every body, infected

Corpses white as a ghost

Naturally selected Black Death, you've found us

Your cloak surrounds us

Boundlessly drown us

In bacillus countless Bring back the plague

Delete those that threaten a new world

Start today

Dig their graves They'll find a way

To rid the world of finding new tomorrows

End of days

Dig those graves Bring back the plague

Even if it means your own survival

Is at stake

Dig your grave We'll find a way

To rid the world of everyone tomorrow

End of days

Dig our grave Malignant

Virulent

Mephitic

Anthropomorphic Pneumonic

Septicemic

Bubonic

Anthropologic

Death Atlas drops Nov. 29 on Metal Blade and can be pre-ordered here. Catch Cattle Decapitation at these tour dates and learn how Travis Ryan learned to scream in our exclusive video beneath the song.

Cattle Decapitation, "Bring Back the Plague"

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