Humanure is the fourth full-length studio album by deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation.[4][5][6] Gabe Serbian, Justin Pearson and Robert Bray of The Locust make guest appearances on the album, along with former member Scott Miller. A music video was produced for "Reduced to Paste."
The album cover by Wes Benscoter is a parody of the cover of the Pink Floyd album Atom Heart Mother.[7] The cover, which depicts a cow defecating flesh and blood, was deemed grotesque by many retailers and they refused to carry it unless it was changed.[8] The cover was edited, removing the cow, and leaving just a barren wasteland.[9]
The album's opening track "Scatology Domine" (the title of which is also a Pink Floyd reference, in this case to the song "Astronomy Domine") is a cover of the opening of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
Exclaim! wrote: "These CA sickos have honed their gore-grind skills down to perfection now; harnessing the early Carcass sound and adding in modern death metal ingredients, CD are one of the best doing this sound today."[10]Orlando Weekly wrote that "Cattle Decapitation again provide a potent antidote to the prevalent knucklehead mindset that defines most metal."[2]
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