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Cancer Bats - Searching for Zero

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Format: CD
Label: MTB
Rel. Date: 03/10/2015
UPC: 039841537024

Searching for Zero
Artist: Cancer Bats
Format: CD
New: Not in stock
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Satellites
2. True Zero
3. Arsenic
4. Beelzebub
5. Devil's Blood
6. Curse With a Conscience
7. All Hail
8. Buds
9. 9 Dusted
10. No More Bullshit
11. Kill Me Please...(Bonus Track)
12. Rust And Bone (Bonus Track)

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Searching For Zero is impressive in its polarity – simultaneously the most melodic yet menacing Cancer Bats release, incorporating the crude hardcore punk of their 2006 debut, Birthing The Giant and more metal leanings of 2008’s Hail Destroyer while pushing the heavy hybrid sounds of 2010’s Mayors Bears Scraps and Bones and 2012’s darker Dead Set On Living to a new plateau.

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As such, the 10 tracks that comprise Searching For Zero, produced by Ross Robinson, known for his work with Sepultura, Slipknot, At The Drive-In, Glassjaw, Blood Brothers and The Cure to only name a few, marks a new extension of the bands already staple sonic components – the urgency and intensity inherent in Cormier’s vocals, Middleton’s sometimes sludgy, sometimes raging riffage, and the grimy, gritty, heavy-hitting rhythm section of Peters and Schwarzer, are all present; however, the album boasts a more raw and organic tonal signature than any previous Bats collection, with melodic elements not only musically but also vocally, which Cormier largely credits to their producer and their metal idols.

Searching for Zero comes from a place of heavy contemplation for its creators, and at times, that contemplation grew grim and dark. But the end result is an acceptance of the realities that come with pursuing a passion, leaving Cancer Bats with a reinvigorated drive to do right by themselves and the people that have followed them this far. “We think of the kids that have been with us the whole way” Cormier states “and we’re going to make sure that nobody ever regrets buying an album or getting a tattoo of our band put on their bodies for the rest of their lives, were all in this for the long haul.”

        
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