Birthing The Giant (2026 Repress)
Birthing the Giant is about as close as contemporary post-hardcore punk has yet come to the insurrectionary furor of the early MC5. The Cancer Bats are less explicitly political than the Five, for all that lead-off single "French Immersion" makes use of the word "revolution" in its chorus, but there's definitely a seething anger to singer Liam Cornier's I-hate-everything lyrics and sore-throat vocals. Guitarist Scott Middleton has exactly the right ratio of garage rock distortion and hesher-metal riffage throughout songs like "Grenades" and "Diamond Mine," and the rhythm section has the ragged-but-right looseness that the best punk requires.
Tracklist
SIDE A
1. Golden Tanks
2. French Immersion
3. Grenades
4. Shillelagh
5. Butterscotch
6. Death Bros
SIDE B
7. Firecrack This
8. Diamond Mine
9. 100 Grand Canyon
10. Ghostbust That
11. Pneumonia Hawk
Birthing The Giant (2026 Repress)
Birthing the Giant is about as close as contemporary post-hardcore punk has yet come to the insurrectionary furor of the early MC5. The Cancer Bats are less explicitly political than the Five, for all that lead-off single "French Immersion" makes use of the word "revolution" in its chorus, but there's definitely a seething anger to singer Liam Cornier's I-hate-everything lyrics and sore-throat vocals. Guitarist Scott Middleton has exactly the right ratio of garage rock distortion and hesher-metal riffage throughout songs like "Grenades" and "Diamond Mine," and the rhythm section has the ragged-but-right looseness that the best punk requires.
Tracklist
SIDE A
1. Golden Tanks
2. French Immersion
3. Grenades
4. Shillelagh
5. Butterscotch
6. Death Bros
SIDE B
7. Firecrack This
8. Diamond Mine
9. 100 Grand Canyon
10. Ghostbust That
11. Pneumonia Hawk
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Birthing the Giant is about as close as contemporary post-hardcore punk has yet come to the insurrectionary furor of the early MC5. The Cancer Bats are less explicitly political than the Five, for all that lead-off single "French Immersion" makes use of the word "revolution" in its chorus, but there's definitely a seething anger to singer Liam Cornier's I-hate-everything lyrics and sore-throat vocals. Guitarist Scott Middleton has exactly the right ratio of garage rock distortion and hesher-metal riffage throughout songs like "Grenades" and "Diamond Mine," and the rhythm section has the ragged-but-right looseness that the best punk requires.
Tracklist
SIDE A
1. Golden Tanks
2. French Immersion
3. Grenades
4. Shillelagh
5. Butterscotch
6. Death Bros
SIDE B
7. Firecrack This
8. Diamond Mine
9. 100 Grand Canyon
10. Ghostbust That
11. Pneumonia Hawk
