Canadian hardcore punk legends Cancer Bats have just announced their return to Australian shores for the first time since 2019 with an eight-date national tour. The tour will include stops in Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide, and is in support of their latest LP and seventh studio album, 2022‘s ‘Psychic Jailbreak‘. The beloved metal stalwarts once again stepped into new territory with […]

Date: Saturday, February 10, 2018 Venue: The Metro Theatre – Sydney Presented by: Destroy All Lines / Chugg Entertainment Special Guests: Cancer Bats Supported by: The Beverly Chills Photos by:  Annette Geneva – Every Day Is Saturday Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY   Check out our review of the show HERE  

While Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have been around for barely three years, the main man Frank Carter has been both musically and artistically on any true hardcore fans radar for quite a while. It has now been thirteen years since he started Gallows, which he later left and Pure Love was formed seven years ago before Carter took his own name into play and added a backing band […]

The raging inferno that is FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES will be returning to Australia in February 2018. Having spent over a decade honing his craft, FRANK CARTER has solidified himself as one of the most exciting and mesmerising front men in the punk rock scene today. On the back of his completely sold out previous tour of Australia FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES are back […]

“…it’s a delicate balance you know? When you play enough songs that everyone is satiated then also I don’t want people to barf and die half way through, so you need to figure out where that barf point is you know?” From Release: CANCER BATS have come to destroy. Fuelled by a burning desire to rage harder, play louder and have […]

Cancer Bats are back with their new album ‘Searching For Zero’ their return after 2012’s ‘Dead Set On Living’ and it’s time to start my own one man circle pit at home and get ready for what I’m expecting to be a fast, heavy album! Opening track ‘Satelites’ with its gentle ‘whoa oh’s has you settled in and then it’s […]

Canada’s finest – Cancer Bats have announced the release date for their new album and revealed the video from their upcoming single Satellites online. Check out the explosive new video here. The beloved multiple-JUNO nominated hardcore-punk-metal band will release their highly anticipated fifth studio LP titled Searching for Zero on March 13th, 2015 on their own imprint, Noise Church Records. The 10-track album is now available for pre-order now. […]

Tonight, it’s time to get a little heavy in my Sidewave week, so it seemed like the right thing to do to go and check out the perfectly matched trio of Miss May I, Cancer Bats and Bullet For My Valentine for a night of loud, just loud… Miss May I make their way to the stage and ambitiously call […]

Fuelled by a burning desire to rage harder, play louder, and have more fun than any other band, CANCER BATS are used to turning venues into rolling pits of punk rock hell and will no doubt “have the pit moving, and long-time fans thanking the musical gods that a band of this design continues to exist.” – Killyourstereo. Ferocious front […]

It is hardly a secret. BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE are this generations greatest exponents of metal. Not simply because of one, two or even three amazing albums destined to be classics in the genre; but also because of the manifest evolution – with each album pointing the way to peaks that remain beyond the powers of ordinary bands. BULLET FOR […]

“I think it kind of sounds like everything that’s been going on in the rock, metal, hardcore whatever you want to call it, scene in the past twenty years, it’s kind of just a massive roll up of all of that basically crammed in to one record.” Supergroup is a term that has been thrown around a little too often, […]

AXEWOUND – DEBUT ALBUM VULTURES OUT OCTOBER 5TH – PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE FROM SEPTEMBER 14TH Metal supergroup AxeWound are set to release their debut album Vultures on October 5THvia Sony Music Australia.  The album release will be preceded by the single Cold on September 21st, coinciding with a UK tour. AxeWound’s pedigree is inarguably first class – since they feature guitarist/vocalist […]

Soundwave Touring & Cancer bats are truly sad to announce the postponement of the band’s tour scheduled for early July.  The band have explained the need to postpone the dates and we love them for their honesty and their love for the fans as they have asked to ensure we reward their fans for their patience and understanding. In good […]

Two-time JUNO-nominated CANCER BATS will release their fourth full-length album Dead Set On Living, on April 20, 2012 through Shock Records in Australia and NZ. Once again utilizing the legendary Vespa Studios and producers Eric Ratz and Kenny Luong, Dead Set On Living brings yet another dimension to the Bats’ menacing style of thrash-tinged hardcore rock.  “We really strived for that raw, off-the-floor vibe this […]