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Birthing the Giant | 
| Artist: Cancer Bats
Label: Hassle
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 10198
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5060100661896
ASIN: B000JFXTSG
Release Date: December 4, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Golden Tanks | | • | French Immersion | | • | Grenades | | • | Shillelagh | | • | Butterscotch | | • | Death Bros | | • | Firecrack This | | • | Diamond Mine | | • | 100 Grand Canyon | | • | Ghost Bust That | | • | Pneumonia Hawk |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great name, great album February 14, 2007
M. J. Pucci (Milton Keynes, UK)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Here we have an interesting proposition indeed: Cancer Bats hail from Toronto, Canada, and on this, their blistering debut album, they deliver a mouth-watering concoction of dirty, greasy, Southern-tinged riffing and punk-as-f*ck 'tude, with some Killswitch Engage-style harmonics chucked in for damn good measure... and that's just the first track!
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br /The four-piece, led by rabble-rousing frontman Liam Cormier, are unremitting in their assault and, like similar-minded hard-partying punk 'n' rollers The Bronx, they offer a real alternative to the over-saturated emo scene and the scores of formulaic metalcore acts currently vying for column space in all the music mags. A giant kick up the arse for hardcore fans who have a penchant for good ol' fashioned rock 'n' roll (or vice-versa) Birthing the Giant is a chaotic aural frenzy from start to finish and I defy any fan of either type of the aforementioned styles to dislike this.
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br /Get it now and begin battering your imaginary drum kit.
These's guys rock!!!! July 26, 2007
M. Walker (Leeds, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Canada has given us some damn fine music over the years, especially it seems, in recent times. From Billy Talent to Alexisonfire right through to er... Sum 41 and Nickelback, Canadian rockers just keep on coming. Joining the ever expanding ranks are Cancer Bats, blasting from the north in a whirlwind or blood, puke and filthy riffs.
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br /Coming across like a less polished Every Time I Die, the band fuse old school rhythms with gang vocals and a penchant for pinch harmonics. The riffs just keep on coming, opening track "Golden Tanks" getting off on the right foot in gloriously emphatic style, the darkly hued harmonies and punker-than-thou intent lay the foundations for something truly special. Where Cancer Bats excel though is the riffs. Not since the heady days of the boogie fused rock of AC/DC has a band truly taken what rock and roll is about, pounded it into submission and truly created a monster. Punk is all well and good, but this band sound genuinely dangerous. Like The Bronx gone thrash metal, "Birthing The Giant" sticks old school metal, southern boogie and the snottiest punk and hardcore into one big melting pot and emerges with a party (albeit one with a few broken teeth).
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br /The album continues as it started, "Butterscotch", "Death Bros" and "100 Grand Canyon" effortlessly piledrive you to the ground, while "Shillelagh" throws in a few off-kilter time signatures and jarring chords (reminiscent of label-mates The Bled) and never lets up the aggression, naturally. In short, It's Punk Jim, But Not As We Know It.
stick it in and turn it up January 29, 2009
A. fordham (uk)
how come 5 people have reviewed their latest cd but not their first?
br /well im just writing this off the cuff, this is an amazing debut album and the follow up is great too, maybe 1 too many slow rocking songs though. but cancer bats and ghost of a thousand are my two favourite hardrocking bands since refused and system of a down. so if you like any of those, buy this and turn it up!!! moshtastic.. i got to see cancer bats at the now closed barfly in cambridge, a great,intimate, rocking gig.
 promising stuff December 18, 2006
sean paul mccann (ireland)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
cancer bats are a canadian band and this is their very promising debut,mixing a few genres such as hardcore,punk and rock n roll,this is a pretty addictive album after you have heard it,furious and melodic,you would be forgiven for punching the air like a madman.
br /The album starts with intent with 'golden tanks' and from here the album rocks and grooves with the best of them,influences can be placed at the feet of clutch,down,pantera,killswitch engage and most precious blood.The singing style is commercial and the riffs are all killer.
br /The album contains two anthems for me that will lead to glory for these lads,and they are 'firecrack this' and the awesome 'ghost bust that',these songs need to be heard.
br /Its good hollerin' music with a backbone,good band chants and most of all a sense of undisputable fun,great debut.
Birthing the Giant September 11, 2008
R. S. Hand (Colwyn Bay)
The word Hardcore is applied, often mistakenly, to a lot of bands these days. But the Cancer Bats really deserve this epithet. This is hardcore as it should be: absolutely furious, blistering, body-shaking riffs, complex rhythm and chord shifts by talented musicians creating an overpowering wall of sound. Every song throws you across the room, and listening to the album all the way through leaves you breathless. Vocalist Liam Cormier has a good shout on him: frenzied, but coherent. The guitars will suddenly leap up out of the thrash and hit you in the face, or the drums will take over for a little while, or they'll launch into a shout-along chorus, or now and again they'll get creative with a time signature, or suddenly sound a little bit rockabilly. But the songs here are certainly varied and the listener is kept interested throughout. Shillelagh packs a hard punch; 100 Grand Canyon is irrepressible; and Pneumonia Hawk is simply wonderful, featuring guest screams from fellow Canadian George Pettit. To imagine what this album sounds like, think Gallows with a slightly smoother edge, or The Bronx but darker and bassier. There's certainly something here that makes the Cancer Bats stand out from the `hardcore' mire; something to do with these grinding layers of danceable, metal-tinged anger. The forty minutes are over far too quickly, and I can't wait to see this band live one day, if they're half as rabid in person as they sound here. Hopefully, this complex and intense sound is the shape of hardcore to come.
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