Country of origin: United States Location: San Diego, California Status: Active Formed in: 1996 Genre: Progressive Death Metal/Grindcore Lyrical themes: Misanthropy, Gore, Animal rights, Environmentalism, Human extinction Current label: Metal Blade Records Years active: 1996-present From left to right: Belisario Dimuzio, Josh Elmore, Travis Ryan, David McGraw, and Olivier Pinard. The band has a quite large fanbase among animal rights/liberation supporters due to their beliefs, album covers, and lyrics, which usually focus on prioritizing animals over human life. The band originally consisted of all vegetarians, but Josh Elmore and Travis Ryan are the only vegetarians in the band now. Cattle Decapitation started as a three-piece that shortly added Ryan after their then-guitar player Scott Miller supposedly "vanished" without the other members knowing anything of his whereabouts or how to get ahold of him. Ryan joined before the band recorded their Ten Torments of the Damned demo and even had the record cover sleeves delivered. He did not perform on the demo, however.