Chords for Cattle Decapitation do not consider themselves grindcore at all | Aggressive Tendencies

I mean, I've always been inspired by the bands I grew up on, which were a little more politically charged, you know, in some way or another.
Like Megadeth and Nuclear Assault.
All of our lyrics are pretty misanthropic and it comes down to _ pointing the finger at people and _ overpopulation being one of them.
That's been a very _ recurring theme throughout the lyrics for the past few albums. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ To [C] me, music is music and _ _ [Em] it should come first and foremost.
_ Anything lyrical or vocal-oriented, _ it's always secondary to me.
It's always been secondary.
But at the same time, I have this feeling that if they're going to be there, they should [B] complement the music somehow.
Instead of just being_ _
Man, I don't want to put anybody down or anything, _ but_
Instead of just being some monotonous _ thing, just to have there as a place marker. _ _ _
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_ [B] In the early days, yeah, _ _ it was a little more steeped in our influences, which was [Db] Napalm Death and Terrorizer and more Roots, Grindcore kind of bands.
_ _ But I don't think we really carried on with that too much.
There's certain _ _ formulaic things that we didn't adhere to.
_ And I think that's where the death part came in, the death grind or whatever. _
It had _ _ _ more death-medley style vocals, _ but was still kind of a blur _ of noise similar to what you found in Grindcore.
A lot of Grindcore, whatever. _
I just never thought_
We never had D-beat parts. _ _ _
It just didn't ever seem to me like too much of a grind _ _ band.
Unless you think a grind is just intensity, which to me that's not what that means.
To me, it's more intense punk. _ _
To me, that's what grind is.
_ I just felt like we were always a little more steeped in metal than punk.
The first two records, Human Jerking and Homoware, were attempts at trying to play death metal, I think.
_ A bunch of dudes that normally played Power Violence and Grind were trying to do death metal.
That's kind of what it was.
_ At least, that's my opinion. _ _
So, to Serve Man, I think that's_
When we signed with Metal Blade, that's what we had been trying to achieve, I think.
A little more of the whole time.
A little more standard _ approach.
But that got all fucked up when we got Josh, and we decided to _ do _ something a little [G] different.
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_ [E] With every record we've done, _ we've gotten more popular and people seem to like it more. _
Which has been the opposite of what a lot of bands did, especially in extreme metal.
Usually it's the first three or four albums people care about.
So we've had a weird history as far as that goes.
And I think that's helping craft our records. _
You want to outdo _ yourself, [Db] in a sense.
But it can't be forced at the same time.
You can't let that _ ruin it.
Because that will ruin a record, I think.
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_ With every line-up change, I felt we got better.
I would [Em] assume that would be the point of [Eb] doing a line-up change. _
[G] When somebody's not working out and they move on, _ to find somebody better.
_ _ _ _ Being a drummer has helped in all sorts of ways.
But as far as finding Dave, or finding the next better guy. _
I hate to put it that way.
I'm not trying to put anyone down or anything.
I'm not trying to put anyone down.
I'm just saying it's good.
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_ _ _ Obviously it helps because you know what to look for just by having done it for so many years.
Any musician should start out being a drummer.
To get that rhythm that people naturally have, but it needs to be unlocked through _ _ learning about [N] it. _ _ _ _ _ _
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