The new CANCER BATS video comes as a precursor to the band’s North American dates set to commence next week including a run with DANZIG and PENNYWISE!
Vocalist Liam Cormier comments: “We’re so excited to be heading out with Danzig and Pennywise. Both bands have been our favorites since we first got into punk and metal so to have a chance to tour with both is like a dream come true! We’ll be ripping the pit and headbanging until we puke every night!”
In the meantime, previously released CANCER BATS videos for the “Arsenic In The Year Of The Snake,” “Satellites,” and “True Zero” are currently streaming now atcancerbats.com. Fans in the US can order copies of Searching For Zero now atmetalblade.com/cancerbats.
During the summer of 2014, Toronto’s CANCER BATS spent several weeks with legendary multi-platinum producer Ross Robinson (At The Drive-In, Slipknot, The Cure, Sepultura, Glassjaw) at his studio in Venice, California. The Canadian act was pulled out of their normal, more winter-y element to the beaches of California for the tracking ofSearching For Zero. Robinson and the band shared a singular vision to create a personal, vibrant album and the results are apparent. The beloved multiple-JUNO nominated hardcore punk metal band’s fifth studio album features ten tracks that are simultaneously the most melodic, yet menacing CANCER BATS tunes compositions to date. The record incorporates the crude hardcore punk of their 2006 debut, Birthing The Giant, and the more metal leanings of 2008’s Hail Destroyer, while pushing the heavy hybrid sounds of 2010’s Mayors Bears Scraps And Bones and 2012’s darker Dead Set On Living to a new plateau. The choruses are hookier, the screams more savage, the riffs more vicious, the songs more powerful. This is CANCER BATS at their pinnacle – their “True Zero.”
Tour Dates:
6/17/2015 Cobra Lounge – Chicago, IL
6/18/2015 Turf Club – St. Paul, MN
6/19/2015 Park Theatre – Winnipeg, MT
6/20/2015 MoSo Rock Bottom – Saskatoon, SA
6/21/2015 International Beer Haus & Stage – Red Deer, AB
6/24/2015 Flashbacks – Kelowna, BC
6/25/2015 Garibaldi Lift Company – Whistler, BC
6/27/2015 Better Than Fred’s – Grande Prairie, AB
7/06/2015 The New Direction – Fargo, ND
7/07/2015 Slowdown – Omaha, NE
7/09/2015 The Flycatcher – Tucson, AZ
w/ Danzig, Pennywise:
7/11/2015 Fox Theater Pomona – Pomona, CA *no Pennywise
7/12/2015 Pepsi Amphitheater at Fort Tuthill Park – Flagstaff, AZ
7/13/2015 Friendz Bar & Zombie Burger – Amarillo, TX *CANCER BATS only
7/14/2015 Bayou Music Center – Houston, TX
7/15/2015 Aztec Theatre – San Antonio, TX
7/17/2015 South Side Ballroom – Dallas, TX
7/18/2015 Club Brady – Tulsa, OK
7/19/2015 Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland – Kansas City, MO
7/21/2015 The Fillmore Auditorium – Denver, CO
7/24/2015 MacEwan Hall – Calgary, AB
7/25/2015 Shaw Conference Centre – Edmonton, AB
7/27/2015 Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Vancouver, BC
7/28/2015 Showbox SODO – Seattle, WA
7/30/2015 The Warfield – San Francisco, CA
7/31/2015 Brooklyn Bowl – Las Vegas, NV
End Tour
8/15/2015 Gwar BQ @ Hadad’s Lake – Richmond VA
