Cattle Decapitation Presents: The Unerasable Past - A Short Film by Wes Benscoter

Lyrics:
Death Atlas

Alas, the deed is done
Mankind has come and gone
Carbon-based life forms reset to day one
Fire now rages on

We thought we had enough time to redesign through human minds
To do our time for this life of crime, seems this is the end of the line
We casketed hope in bureaucracy, sunk to the bottom of the sea
Out of sight out of mind out of love for money

We deserve everything that’s coming
We’ll take this world to our graves

There’s no fear for tomorrow when there’s no trust for today
There’s no ever after… debts have to be paid

We deserve everything that’s coming
We took this world to our graves… we made its creatures our slaves
Shattered the hourglass… an unerasable past…
Humans: Demons, deranged and depraved

We deserve everything that’s coming!
We took this world to our graves!
We deserve everything that’s coming!
We took this world to our graves!

Alas, the deed is done
Mankind now dead and gone
Post-anthropocene - Earth reset to day one
Fire now rages on

There’s no fear for tomorrow when there’s no trust for today
There’s no ever after… debts have to be paid

We deserve everything that’s coming
We took this world to our graves… we made its creatures our slaves
Shattered the hourglass… an unerasable past…
Humans: Demons, deranged and depraved

And I count the days ’til we expire our ways
And I count the days ’til we expire for always

To be alive is to survive everything….
to make due with anything… until we die

To be alive is to squander everything….
to stumble towards anything… to feel alive

This album was my introduction to Cattle Decap and I’d never had music make me feel so bleak and hopeless. I listened to this so much when it first came out it’s nice to revisit it and still hate humanity.

É. Tamo bem desse jeito memo.

This is so beautiful

I'll never forget how hard this band was grinding in the early 2000's. There wasnt many shows in Denver that didn't have Cattle Decapitation on it. It was insane. So happy they keep evolving and keep recording with Dave.

The tears are genuine. 🤘🏻 Cattle Decapitation will go down in history as one of the greatest to ever do. 💜

I want the world to end though...... wrf... it needs to end. Everyone will be happier dead.

I just noticed that the ending hinted towards Terrasite, awesome!

Thank you so much for finally bringing something good in my life that can give me chills and make me smile

Woooow gives me goosebump...my best metal band by far

I love this video so much that I will forever boycott every product that’s advertised right in the goddamn middle of it.

AMAZING short film 🎞️

Why does Cattle Decap make me feel? About to cry at this one, holy crap.

what a beautiful film I LOVE IT

I'm like 1 more sick release away from getting a Travis Ryan tattoo, gosh I love these guys, this is such a dope rendition/video

Amazing

The sea-ice extent in Antartica for the last 2 years has been at record lows. But the Australian ALP government has an emissions reduction target that doesn't include embedded emissions in the fossil fuel exports parasite fossil fuel companies make massive profits off. Australia's wealth, good will and apathy causing Australia to produce 9.4% of total anthropogenic emissions in 2009 and set to increase to 13% or more in the near future due to the deployment of even more fossil fuel projects.

We deserve everything that is coming!

One word: empty.

Death Atlas is my favourite album but I enjoy every second of this band! Cheers from Bolivia, Southamerica!

I can't think of a single piece of art that makes me feel emotion like this every time I experience it. Sadness, rage, hatred, determination, despair all mixed together. Phenomenal

Climate change is a scam just like the scamdemic. Trust the science! Definitely trust the Government! Where's Al Gore?!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Idk why I slept on Cattle Decapitation for so long. But I finally gave them a good listen and goddamn... they far exceeded my expectations. Better late than never, I suppose.

The best extreme metal band there is.

Beautiful message that people will continue to see and understand in years to come. what a song ❤

Cattle's Magnum Opus.
A heartbreaking song from a truly brutal album that pulls no punches with its message about the 6th mass extinction event, and the fact that humans simply aren't prepared for what is to come.

How amazing this song is. How I love Cattle. 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

So happy to be alive in the same point in time as this band. Phenomenal group of dudes

Good God, this band is so fucking good

A Masterpiece!!!! 🔊 Hail Cattle Decapitation! \m/

Praise the sound, o lord.

I know im late but im surprised no one mentioned the devastating words from Stephen Hawking in the first minutes of this song, those words hit me hard.

Muchos Goosebumpos maximus! \m/

Mighty.

I take this song as a warning to what could happen to us if we don't change our ways.

This is just awsome. The goblin vocals in the melodic ending is just perfect.

Holy shit. I didn’t know they made a video of my favorite song on Death Atlas. This is an absolute work of art. 🤌🏻

This song makes me fucking cry…. 💔

If Wes would ever read this: nice hommage to Stalker !

Dis Pater and Cattle Decapitation, such an amazing collab.

Played this in a bar on touchtunes once. Watched a couple of patrons sit still, listen, and after it was over (yes, somehow the bartenders didn’t skip) they just kept staring into the void.

One of the greatest songs of our lifetimes.

I was listening to this song high. The emotions at the end were so intense. The female vocals and travis’s more emotional cleans, make the song utterly hopeless, but astounding beautiful. Like a choir of crying angels while everything fades out of existence.

the only way is vegan

This is so amazing... in the end of the song i had tears in my eyes...

Great Work..Nice

Greetz from Germany \m/

This is getting more and more reality based everyday. This is a piece of music that brings tears to my eyes like a song off of the Wall. Then it breaks into the blast beat but becomes even more relevant.

It's beautiful....what they've created and become

My neighbors still listen to this every night. Idk if they like it yet, but they do hear it every night.

Idk if it was actually animated or if it was a trick of the camera angle, but it felt like the skeleton in the end looked at the camera like it was saying, "You did this..."

Bleakest music ever written. That's not a criticism