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Album Review: Cancer Bats – Dead Set on Living

Album Review: Cancer Bats
Dead Set on Living
Metal Blade Records

Two-time JUNO nominated Cancer Bats are at it again after two much anticipated years. April 24th, 2012 marks the release of their latest effort ‘Dead Set on Living’: their fourth full-length release.

In search of that raw, live off the floor sound that was first evident on the last album, Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones, the boys recorded once again at Vespa Studios with producers Eric Ratz and Kenny Luong. Although not as raw as the last effort, the album has that live off the floor sound, with a bit more polish and shine.

DSOL is not as hard as their last album; however it does offer several heavy hitters. “R.A.T.S”, the album’s opener featuring guest vocalist Rob Urbinati of Sacrifice, starts the album out with pure spine-tingling ability. It is slow and methodic, boiling into an absolute frenzy. “Bricks and Mortar” another hard hitting track allows the band’s metal-sludge ability to shine while singer Liam Cormier spits out the lyrics with his menacing gritty vocals. ‘New World Alliance’, one of the best off the album, although not the fastest or the hardest, will leave you feeling like you are part of a new beginning as its anthem-like feel wraps its music around you.

In recording DSOL it is clear that the Cancer Bats musical ability is gearing up to perfection. The music is more technically sound and they are willing to experiment to achieve the music they want to make.

Dead Set on Living track listing:

1 R.A.T.S
2 Bricks and Mortar
3 Road Sick
4 Breathe Armageddon
5 Dead Set On Living
6 The Void
7Old Blood
8 Drunken Physics
9 Bastards
10 Rally the Wicked
11 New World Alliance

Dead Set on Living

By Karla “Khaos” McLeod

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