Their versatile heaviness inspires both moshing and headbanging.
Cancer Bats: Influences
Hardcore punk boosted by inspiration from metal rule-breakers.
About Cancer Bats
Artist Biography
Proving that loud, gritty, and ranting punk rock is still alive and thrashing in Canada, Toronto's Cancer Bats employ a punishing blend of hardcore punk, metalcore, Southern rock, and sludge metal. Citing a wide berth of musical inspirations including Black Flag, Down, Led Zeppelin, Entombed, and Black Sabbath -- they have toured Canada as a Sabbath cover band under the moniker Bat Sabbath -- they emerged in 2006 with the hard-hitting Birthing the Giant. The band caught fire in the early 2010s, earning Juno Award nominations for 2011's Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones and 2013's Dead Set on Living, and have remained at the forefront of the Canadian hardcore scene with subsequent efforts like The Spark That Moves (2018) and Psychic Jailbreak (2022).
Hometown
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre
Metal
Members of Cancer Bats
Cancer Bats was formed on May 2004. Members of Cancer Bats include, or have included, the following 2 members.