{"id":64970,"date":"2018-06-22T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=64970"},"modified":"2023-03-17T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:55:24","slug":"interview-cancer-bats-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/interview-cancer-bats-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Total Control – Cancer Bats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“We wanted to shake things up a bit”<\/em><\/h2>\n

It is well-known the music industry standard has evolved in the current digital age. Sure there are still those who do the expected single (or singles) release before dropping an album, yet there are those who aren’t shackled to the usual procedures. Major names such as Beyonc\u00e9, Kanye West and Avenged Sevenfold are just some of those who have unexpectedly treated fans to new records in recent years. Everyone likes a good surprise and this is something Cancer Bats<\/strong> realised when they released their sixth album, ‘The Spark That Moves,’<\/em> unexpectedly, this past April.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just like ‘man, let’s just do it’. We wanted to shake things up a bit,\u201d<\/em> explains frontman Liam Cormier when we caught up with him at the Download Festival<\/strong>. \u201cThere is a lot of hip-hop we all follow that does stuff like that. I’m confident that all of our fans and everybody that follows the band, would be on it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Inevitably, fans instantly gravitated to ‘The Spark That Moves’<\/em> and it’s easy to see why. Over the course of its 11 songs, the Canadian quartet deliver a blend of sludgy riffs and thrash punks hooks; a winning recipe that has served as Cancer Bats<\/strong>‘ backbone for the past 14 years. Arriving three years on from the release of ‘Searching for Zero,’<\/em> Cormier doesn’t consider the surprise as means of making up for lost time. \u201cWhen we were doing all the Bat Sabbath touring, everyone was just asking about new Cancer Bats anyway. Kids knew we didn’t break up. I feel like there hasn’t been any lost ground, even though we’ve taken time off.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The release of ‘The Spark\u2026’<\/em> coincided with the first of several short recent visits to the UK. As dedicated fans prepared to celebrate the 10th anniversary of ‘Hail Destroyer,’<\/em> it made perfect sense to give them the first opportunity to pick up the record. \u201cI kind of did that because I feel logistically all of the people I wanted to get this record too, will be at the same place,\u201d<\/em> explains Liam. \u201cSo I thought ‘you guys have liked our band for the last 10 years, you’re the ones that deserve the first crack at buying the vinyl and getting all the stuff,’ so we bought it with us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n