Biography
New Yorkers Cattle Press bring together influences from sludge, death metal, hardcore, grindcore, and crust punk to create their own dense, pummeling, and ultimately hard-to-pigeonhole sound.
The overall anger and aggression of their music puts them in line with punk and hardcore, but their lyrical philosophies - inspired by such sources as Anton LaVey, Frederick Nietzsche, H.P. Lovecraft, The Necronomicon, and self-improvement guru Tony Robbins - give them more in common with the death metal likes of Morbid Angel (another influence on the band).
Read full biography ↓
They formed in the early '90s and have since gone through several lineup changes, but at the helm has always been guitarist/vocalist Eddie Ortiz. Cattle Press recorded their first demo in 1993, followed by an EP (Showered in the Love of the Abhorer) in 1995 for the small Devastating Soundworks label. A split LP with grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed for Bovine Records followed in 1997 on the heels of several compilation and 7" appearances. Cattle Press' first full-length, the interestingly named Hordes to Abolish the Divine, finally came out in 2000 and was released through the Hydra Head Records label.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.