Landfill - Bastard Nailed In Wood

Biography

Chase Cauthen (Born September 6, 1996), known professionally as Landfill, is a record producer and member of the Anti-World collective. His production is known for the usage of electronic elements and hard-hitting, loud, and heavy bass and kick drums. He has worked for multiple big-name artists, including Craig Xen, City Morgue, and Ghostemane.

Chase initially began producing in 2008 after his cousin, Kiddbeatz, introduced him to FL Studio. Landfill explains inside a September 2014 interview with Gold Bushido:

I was always interested in making my own beats since I was young. I met my cousin Zion (aka Kidd Beats) in 2008 or 2009, and he actually told me about FL Studio so I downloaded the demo and I was just staring at the screen. So many controls, right? I still attempted to make beats but they sounded hopelessly shitty to my ears, so I quit. Three times, all in the same year if not a little longer. I wasn’t aware of tutorials or any help of any kind. Plus back then, I didn’t know what the hell a “VST” was, so I just kept at it, trial and error. I didn’t learn how to mix until THREE years later! Every time I made a beat and rendered it, it was like a legitimate “fuck you” to the mixer. I started enjoying it in 8th grade because that was my only medium for calming down and not suffering from depression or fighting. All the emotion from that hell found its way into the music and that’s what empowered me to keep going at it.

It would be revealed inside an August 2018 interview with Masked Gorilla that Landfill is an alter-ego of Anti-World founder, Sybyr:

To people who don’t already know this, it should be obvious that I’m Landfill. This is the most obvious thing that everybody should fucking know.

Despite this revelation, he continues to use Landfill as an alternative pseudonym. In a May 2019 interview with Lyphe Happens, Chase revealed why he uses an alternate alias while producing:

I just didn’t want it to be, like, ‘Syringe, produced by Syringe,’ it’s like, eh, I was thinking some wild shit, I was kinda jaded.