★★★★★
Canada's Cancer Bats follow-up 2010's slightly underwhelming "Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones" with their new album, "Dead Set On Living". The album is the fourth opus from the doom punk quartet and sees the band lean more towards the stoner metal sound than previous efforts. Long-time fans shouldn't panic though as there are still plenty of riffs, rage and energy throughout the album. "R.A.T.S" is the perfect opener for "Dead Set On Living"...
- www.alterthepress.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
I was initially a little worried about playing this album. I desperately wanted 'Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones' to sound different from 'Hail Destroyer'. Not that I hated Cancer Bats' last album, quite the contrary, however, there's just something about hardcore punk that, to me, runs the risk of sounding too samey. Good, really bloody good, but not massively progressive (I mean, how much heavier can you actually go until you're considered a health hazard?). I had nothing to worry about...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Dead Set on Living, Cancer Bats' fourth album, sees the band continuing where they left off with 2010's Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones. While they started out nearly 10 years ago as a convincing hybrid of metal and punk, they've been leaning further into shredding territory with each subsequent album. Dead Set on Living is unapologetically heavy, especially on guitar. They're not full on metal, at least not to the point that would cause punk or hardcore fans to abandon ship...
- www.punknews.org
2012-06-18
★★★★★
Sound: "RATS!" Spastic and Spontaneous. Electric and Eccentric. Fantastic and Forward. Cancer Bats have dropped "Dead Set On Living" and have continued their in your face attitude about music. The album feels up to the standards of any fan of the band. The entire album has a very raw sound. Banging your head on a door while dancing like your moshing in the middle of a room is normal for a fan of Cancer Bats, and this album will not pay for medical bills...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-23
★★★★★
Somewhere on the road between Red Deer and Chicoutimi, Cancer Bats became one of Canada's best heavy bands. Straddling the worlds of Warped Tour-friendly riffs (they tour with Bring Me the Horizon) and classic Northern thrash (Rob Urbinati of Sacrifice guests on "R.A.T.S...
- exclaim.ca
2012-04-19
★★★★★
In July 2011 Canadian metalcore giants Cancer Bats, a band who say they "come to destroy", had a bit of a Ke$ha moment. "We want to write some bangers," said frontman Liam Cormier to NME following another messy beatdown at Sonisphere festival. "I'm done being bummed out and now it's time to rip it!" A nine-month gestation later, they've done just that...
- www.nme.com
2012-04-19
★★★★★
Release Date: April 16, 2012 Stoner-rock fans always channel their inner whiplash/Black Sabbath muse. While the restless satisfied themselves with cumbersome Dio versus Ozzy debates, Toronto natives Cancer Bats lived out the portmanteau "Bat Sabbath" in sacrilegious homage. Don't be too fooled by the alter-ego, though, since much of Dead Set on Living borrows a fair share of consistent rock via 2008's Hail Destroyer, devilisms, and rugged Southern rock tailored for hardcore fans...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-04-16
★★★★★
The more great songs a band writes, the higher expectations rise around the time of each new release. Toronto natives Cancer Bats leapt above the radar in 2008 with their sophomore album, Hail Destroyer. An album that spat fire and bile, it rightly made them critical darlings in the rock press and acquired them a devoted fanbase...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2012-04-16
★★★★★
Birthing The Giants was an auspicious debut and brilliant precursor of the chaos to come from Torontoâ??s Cancer Bats. Melting metal riffs, punk rhythm and aggressive vocals in a pot of kick-your-teeth-in soup, Cancer Bats obviously set out to destroy from the onset...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2011-03-28
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