Cattle Decapitation – Medium Rarities – New Vinyl Lp 2018 Metal Blade ‘Medium Rare’ Edition on Oxblood in Dookie Brown Vinyl – Death Metal RED (Sony)

“Medium Rarities is a project we started about 10 years ago and the band is thrilled to see it finally happen! In 2008, I started compiling unreleased tracks, Import bonus tracks and 7″ releases for a rarities release and even had the art created by the legendary Wes Benscoter when we discovered that a key track was missing that we wanted to include on it. Our album To Serve Man had a bonus track ready in case there was a Japanese version released but that never happened and the band members’ copies of the track got lost, seemingly forever! We felt a rarities compilation released without that bonus track would be a weird idea and so the project got shelved until recently an employee of Metal Blade finally was able to unearth the track from an old disc that was tucked away in the Metal Blade vault! The lyrics to the song were unearthed along with it and so we quickly got to work with compiling and mastering the rest. This is a nice, concise compilation of unreleased and hard to find tracks complete with lyrics and cheeky vinyl color variant schemes based on how people like their meat prepared. The European vinyl variants resemble diseased meats and my favorite part is the cassette… created to look like the vintage cassette releases we grew up on complete with the old school Metal Blade Axe Logo! A lot of thought and work went into this release and we are pleased to finally be able to present to you… Medium Rarities!”

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