Cancer Bats
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.
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Cancer Bats Shows (11)
Cancer Bats Discography
12 tracks
- 1 Golden Tanks 3:46
- 2 French Immersion 3:10
- 3 Grenades 3:51
- 4 Shillelagh 3:19
- 5 Butterscotch 3:08
- 6 Death Bros 4:48
- 7 Firecrack This 3:29
- 8 Diamond Mine 4:16
- 9 100 Grand Canyon 2:44
- 10 Ghost Bust That 3:47
- 11 Pneumonia Hawk 3:47
- 12 Roy Rogers 3:28
4 tracks
- 1 Bloodpact 3:02
- 2 Shillelagh 3:21
- 3 Ragin' Hard 2:35
- 4 Technolokron 1:37
2 tracks
- 1 Sabotage 3:00
- 2 Scared To Death 3:22
11 tracks
- 1 R.A.T.S 4:08
- 2 Bricks and Mortar 3:45
- 3 Road Sick 2:50
- 4 Breathe Armageddon 3:47
- 5 Dead Set On Living 3:06
- 6 The Void 4:24
- 7 Old Blood 2:48
- 8 Drunken Physics 4:08
- 9 Bastards 3:25
- 10 Rally the Wicked 2:22
- 11 New World Alliance 4:06
5 tracks
- 1 Children of the Grave 4:44
- 2 Into the Void 5:28
- 3 Iron Man 5:33
- 4 NIB 5:12
- 5 War Pigs 7:09
12 tracks
- 1 Satellites 4:04
- 2 True Zero 3:19
- 3 Arsenic in the Year of the Snake 2:25
- 4 Beelzebub 3:49
- 5 Devil's Blood 2:32
- 6 Cursed with a Conscience 4:09
- 7 All Hail 1:27
- 8 Buds 3:25
- 9 Dusted 4:10
- 10 No More Bull Shit 3:39
- 11 Kill Me Please...(Bonus Track) 2:53
- 12 Rust and Bone (Bonus Track) 4:04
12 tracks
- 1 Hail Destroyer 3:16
- 2 Harem of Scorpions 2:47
- 3 Deathsmarch 3:35
- 4 Regret 2:44
- 5 Bastard's Waltz 3:27
- 6 Sorceress 2:15
- 7 Lucifer’s Rocking Chair 4:20
- 8 Let It Pour 2:41
- 9 Smiling Politely 4:01
- 10 Pray for Darkness 1:29
- 11 Pma ‘Till I’m Doa 3:02
- 12 Zed’s Dead, Baby 3:51
11 tracks
- 1 Gatekeeper 2:47
- 2 Brightest Days 2:49
- 3 We Run Free 3:22
- 4 Space and Time 3:08
- 5 Bed of Nails 3:27
- 6 Headwound 2:56
- 7 Fear Will Kill Us All 3:38
- 8 Rattlesnake 2:34
- 9 Can't Sleep 2:40
- 10 Heads Will Roll 3:34
- 11 Winterpeg 3:16
2 tracks
- 1 Dog Parks / Switchoff 3:08
- 2 Road Sick 2:59
1 track
- 1 Inside Out 2:57
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14 tracks
- 1 Sleep This Away 3:20
- 2 Trust No One 2:43
- 3 Dead Wrong 2:40
- 4 Doomed to Fail 3:15
- 5 Black Metal Bicycle 3:31
- 6 We Are the Undead 2:54
- 7 Scared to Death 3:22
- 8 Darkness Lives 3:43
- 9 Snake Mountain 2:49
- 10 Make Amends 3:04
- 11 Fake Gold 2:53
- 12 Drive This Stake 2:41
- 13 Raised Right 4:46
- 14 Sabotage 2:58
6 tracks
- 1 Deathsmarch to a New Acoustic Beat (feat. Nick Sherman) 3:33
- 2 Road Sick Sick Sick so Stay Home 3:20
- 3 Black Metal Bicycle My Blues Riffs Away 4:24
- 4 Darkness Lite 3:53
- 5 Bed of Nails, Dreams of Tambourines 3:31
- 6 Lucifers "Slightly Less" Rocking Chair 4:49
1 track
- 1 Deathsmarch to a New Acoustic Beat (feat. Nick Sherman) 3:33
11 tracks
- 1 Hail the Acoustic Destroyer (feat. Lindsay Schoolcraft) 3:55
- 1 Deathsmarch to a New Acoustic Beat (feat. Nick Sherman) 3:33
- 2 Bricks Mandolins and More Tambourine 4:16
- 2 Road Sick Sick Sick so Stay Home 3:20
- 3 Pneumoniacoustic Hawk 3:58
- 3 Black Metal Bicycle My Blues Riffs Away 4:24
- 4 RacousticTS 3:19
- 4 Darkness Lite 3:53
- 5 Winterpeg Folk Fest 3:17
- 5 Bed of Nails, Dreams of Tambourines 3:31
- 6 Lucifers "Slightly Less" Rocking Chair 4:49
1 track
- 1 Hail the Acoustic Destroyer (feat. Lindsay Schoolcraft) 3:55
11 tracks
- 1 Radiate 3:04
- 2 The Hoof 3:00
- 3 Lonely Bong 3:07
- 4 Friday Night 2:54
- 5 Hammering On 4:11
- 6 Crocodiles 3:00
- 7 Shadow of Mercury 2:57
- 8 Keep on Breathin 4:25
- 9 Pressure Mind 3:25
- 10 Rollin Threes 3:48
- 11 Psychic Jailbreak 3:03
1 track
- 1 Friday Night 2:55
3 tracks
- 1 Pressure Mind 3:25
- 2 Lonely Bong 3:07
- 3 Psychic Jailbreak 3:03
2 tracks
- 1 Lonely Bong 3:07
- 2 Psychic Jailbreak 3:03
1 track
- 1 Psychic Jailbreak 3:03
1 track
- 1 Weird Punx 2:34
5 tracks
- 1 Children of the Grave 4:57
- 2 Iron Man 5:48
- 3 Into the Void 5:34
- 4 N.I.B. 5:36
- 5 War Pigs 7:48
1 track
- 1 Backstab the Rat Race 2:34
11 tracks
- 1 World Wild Fire Death Race 3:31
- 2 Stay Stuck 3:44
- 3 Don't Trip 3:03
- 4 Bright Eyes of Gold 3:11
- 5 Give Me Dirt 3:42
- 6 Long Tooth 3:25
- 7 Speed Wizard 2:58
- 8 Ocean Crash 4:33
- 9 Positive Grid 3:10
- 10 Prognosis 3:53
- 11 Fools Like You 3:22
2 tracks
- 1 Long Tooth (feat. Brooklyn Doran) 3:25
- 2 Stay Stuck 3:44
1 track
- 1 Stay Stuck 3:44
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