The Harvest Floor is the sixth full-length studio album by American extreme metal band Cattle Decapitation. It was released through Metal Blade Records on January 20, 2009. The album was recorded and mixed at Sharkbite studios in Oakland, California, with engineering and production by .[1] The artwork was designed by Wes Benscoter, and shows the outside of a large slaughterhouse with the "general public being herded inside to meet their demise."[1] It is the band's last album to feature bassist Troy Oftedal, and their first to feature drummer Dave McGraw.
A music video was made for the song "Regret and the Grave", depicting an idea similar to the album cover, with the SWAT police driving numerous people onto the outskirts of a city, putting bags on their heads, and forcing them into cages. It also shows two people being led into a dark, abandoned slaughterhouse and a woman looking desperately out of her cage. All this is shown in between shots of the band playing in a slaughterhouse.
The Harvest Floor sold 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album debuted at number 16 on the BillboardTop Heatseekers chart.[4]
Track listing[]
No.
Title
Length
1.
"The Gardeners of Eden"
5:39
2.
"A Body Farm"
3:29
3.
"We Are Horrible People"
3:56
4.
"Tooth Enamel and Concrete"
2:57
5.
"The Ripe Beneath the Rind"
2:50
6.
"The Product Alive"
3:05
7.
"In Axestasy"
4:43
8.
"Into the Public Bath"
3:11
9.
"The Harvest Floor" (instrumental)
3:07
10.
"Regret & the Grave"
4:40
Total length:
37:37
Japanese edition bonus track
No.
Title
Length
11.
"You People"
2:33
Total length:
37:10
Personnel[]
Cattle Decapitation[]
Travis Ryan – vocals, keyboards, drums on "The Harvest Floor"
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