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Cancer Bats are easily one of the hardest working
bands in the world as they are forever touring and
treat the UK like their second home as they are
forever touring in the UK and when they do come
over it is never just for the one off show but instead
for full length tours which last for a couple of
weeks at a time, when they are not touring they
are releasing new material and have kept to a pattern
of releasing a new studio album every two years,
now some people may questions when the band actually
have spare time to write and record their albums
as it really does seem like they are forever on
the road but the Cancer Bats have just released
their forth studio album ‘Dead Set On Living’.
With the Cancer Bats you kind of always know
what you are getting when it comes to their albums,
you just know it’s going to be fast paced
and raw sounding with extreme chunky guitar riffs,
blistering drums beats and a set of ferocious
hardcore vocals from front man Liam Cormier yet
each album the Cancer Bats have released still
manages to sound slightly different from the last
with ‘Dead Set On Living’ continuing
that routine.
The album opens with ‘R.A.T.S’ and
the song comes at you like the Tasmanian devil
on speed its mentally fast and extremely raw sounding
yet also features a few progressive instrumental
moments between the hectic roars, the lyrics are
dark with Cormier reeling them off in the rawest
of ways.
‘Bricks And Mortar’ is a beast of
a song as the band are jamming around making as
much noise as possible you can almost picture
Cormier onstage screaming his lungs out to the
raw paced vocals the song features.
Breathe Armageddon’ and ‘Bastards’
are both beastly tracks which stand out in their
own way, ‘Breather Armageddon’ has
Cormier singing about the world burning and no
one surviving over some amazingly heavy guitar
riffs whilst ‘Bastards’ is a full
on brutal assault which is bound to batter your
ears in a loving way.
‘Dead Set On Living’ features 11
tracks and runs for just under 40minutes and there
is not a dull moment throughout as the Cancer
Bats manage to maintain the aggression and raw
sounds that we have all grown to love throughout
the years throughout the album.
‘The thing that first got me interested in the
Cancer Bats was how they managed to mix metal,
punk and hardcore together and come up with a
beast of a sound which is unlike any other band
that has tried to mix these styles of music together
in the past and it seems to me that the Cancer
Bats know exactly what turns them on and the fans
on when it comes to music and have a life time
winning formula and ‘Dead Set On Living’
is another collection of songs to add to an already
impressive catalogue of songs for the Cancer Bats.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Liam Cormier
Scott Middleton
Mike Peters
Jaye R. Schwarzer |
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1. R.A.T.S. (featuring Rob Urbinati)
2. Bricks And Mortar
3. Road Sick
4. Breathe Armageddon
5. Dead Set On Living (featuring Matty Matheson)
6. The Void
7. Old Blood
8. Drunken Physics
9. Bastards! (featuring Dez Fafara and Kate Cooper)
10. Rally The Wicked
11. New World Alliance |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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