On April 2, 2020, extreme metal band Cattle Decapitation released a video for their song “Bring Back the Plague” (2019), whose lyrics invoke a pandemic that wipes out humanity as a means to counter the anthropogenic devastation of Earth. This article explores these lyrics vis-à-vis the music video, which tackles the spatiotemporal disruption caused by stay-at-home orders at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, condemning anomic behavior and appealing to solidarity and social responsibility.