Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones

Toronto-based punk-metal band Cancer Bats' third album on as many labels retains all the aggression and rage of its two predecessors.

A lot may have gone into the sonic stew that is Canada's CANCER BATS — everything from horror punk to sci-fi thrash to PANTERA groove metal to basement-show hardcore — but it's all boiled down here to its most rudimentary elements, reduced to its primal basics. CANCER BATS are all about simple forwa...

When Liam Cormier and Scott Middleton formed Cancer Bats in 2004, they sought to bring together the styles of some of their favorite music acts, such as...