LIVE: Cancer Bats / Palm Reader / Lord Dying @ Rescue Rooms, London

Just think – it’s cold, it’s been raining, it’s a Thursday night in January: what is there to do really? The laundry? Or go and watch a mental hardcore punk show in a small venue in Nottingham? We’ll take the latter. Canadian metal maestros Lord Dying put on a surprisingly

Cancer Bats, Palm Reader, Lord Dying, Incite @ Wedgwood Rooms, Portsmouth

Palm Reader to support Cancer Bats on UK tour

Palm Reader will join Cancer Bats on their UK tour next month. Both bands will hit the road on the 11th January, starting in Southend, before finishing on the 28th at London’s Tufnell Park Dome. “Unbelievably excited to be heading out on this tour with the mighty Cancer Bats,” says

Interview: Cancer Bats [December 2015]

January will be the third time Cancer Bats have graced British soil in the space of ten months after a co-headline tour with While She Sleeps in April and appearances at Reading & Leeds in August. With this in mind, it will be the first time they’re

Cancer Bats Upload Second In Series Of Studio Updates For ‘Searching For Zero’

The second in a series of videos from Cancer Bats documenting the making of their upcoming album ‘Searching For Zero’ is up. (PT already posted on its predecessor.) Thier fifth studio LP is out on March 9th, 2015 on their own imprint, Noise Church Records.

Cancer Bats debut new song ‘Arsenic’

Cancer Bats unveiled new song ‘Arsenic’ last night via the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show, and is the first track to be taken from the bands forthcoming album ‘Searching For Zero’. The band are also set to announce details of a UK tour with While She Sleeps

LIVE: Cancer Bats/ Brutality Will Prevail/ Turbowolf/ Empress at Koko, London [15/03/13]

Thinking back to prior times the Canadian southern-rock-punk contortionists have graced the capital city of fair England, it is remarkably difficult to establish whether they ever truly went away. As their world-renowned work ethic sees the quartet almost continuously on the road, it is one thing to admire and

Cancer Bats announce UK tour with Brutality Will Prevail and Empress

Cancer Bats have announced a March 2013 UK tour with Brutality Will Prevail and Empress. Check out the full list of dates below.

Say hello to Spotify Play widgets in album reviews on Punktastic

So, unless you live under a rock or are reading this through some sort of magic, you’ll know that we’ve relaunched the site recently. You’ll also remember that we said more good things are coming… well, today begins the first “phase” of those good things. We loved the

Noisey post Cancer Bats Pentagram tour documentary

Fancy seeing what happened when Cancer Bats played six shows in one day? Look no further than Noisey’s YouTube channel. We got some shots from the Brixton leg of the tour, which you can see in our photos section.