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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
06/09 @ Warehouse SWG3, Glasgow
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Heavy metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2012. They forge powerful, riff-driven heavy metal rooted in the genre's classic traditions from the Swabian capital.
Cancer Bats formed in Toronto in 2004 and built a durable identity from hardcore velocity, sludge-metal weight, and Southern-rock swagger. Birthing the Giant introduced the basic formula, but Hail Destroyer turned it into a broader heavy-music statement, with Liam Cormier's barked vocals, Scott Middleton's thick riffing, and a rhythm section that made the songs feel both punk-fast and groove-heavy. The band never fit neatly into one Canadian hardcore category; they could tour with metalcore bands, punk acts, and stoner-heavy groups without sounding misplaced. Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones, Dead Set on Living, Searching for Zero, The Spark That Moves, and Psychic Jailbreak show an ongoing preference for compact riffs, gang-shout choruses, and dirty momentum over technical display. Their Bat Sabbath alter ego, dedicated to Black Sabbath covers, also makes the lineage obvious: Cancer Bats treat classic doom and Sabbathian swing as fuel for hardcore movement. Their strongest records feel like party violence with discipline, full of sweat, fuzz, stomp, and a very physical sense of release in motion onstage nightly.
Cape Canaveral death/grind act formed around 2021, channeling nihilism, anarchy, and social rage into short blasts of caustic extremity.
Delaware death metal/hardcore hybrid formed around 2018, combining the brutality of death metal with hardcore's blunt social commentary.
Crust-death act from Modena, Italy, active since 2009. Cancer Spreading fuses d-beat crust punk with death metal heaviness, bridging the punk and metal undergrounds of Emilia-Romagna.
Death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh brutality to the Czech capital's well-established death metal tradition.
Cancerbero is a death metal band from Concepción, Chile originally formed in 1987, releasing two early demos — Guardian of Hell (1988) and Perpetual Agony (1991) — before disbanding in 1994 and reforming in 2001. The band delivers old-school death metal rooted in the raw, thrash-inflected aggression of the late 1980s, and has released three full-lengths: At the Portal of Evoked Blasphemies (2012), Reconquering the Throne of Death (2019), and Sempiternal Decay (2025).
Death metal act from Poznań, active since 2016. Cancerfaust delivers punishing death metal from the capital of Greater Poland.
Denton/Fort Worth raw black metal and ambient project active 2017-2018, exploring themes of alchemy, the afterlife, and extinction across lo-fi, atmospheric compositions.
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