Cancer Bats: Birthing The Giant (20th anniversary, starburst vinyl, alternate cover) [BAT SKULL RECORDS]

Why you'll love it

Birthing The Giant had been out of print for years, and the band brought it back for its 20th anniversary on starburst vinyl with new cover art. It's the record that launched Toronto's Cancer Bats in 2006: "Golden Tanks", "French Immersion" and "Pneumonia Hawk" are all here.

This edition

• 20th anniversary edition
• Starburst vinyl
• Alternate cover art for this reissue
• Bat Skull Records pressing, the band's own label

About the album

Liam Cormier and Scott Middleton started Cancer Bats in Toronto in May 2004, and two years later Distort put out their debut. Birthing The Giant arrived in June 2006 in Canada and that September in the US, eleven blasts of hardcore with a sludgy, swaggering low end.

The song titles give away the band's sense of humour ("Butterscotch", "100 Grand Canyon", "Ghost Bust That"), but the playing is all business. Twenty years on, the band is reissuing its first three albums on vinyl, and this pressing comes with altered artwork.

Also at Kops: Hail Destroyer · Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones · Dead Tired: Hornets Of Fall (with Liam Cormier) · the Dine Alone x Kops takeover · more punk

Tracklist

On Bat Skull Records (cat# BSR013), a reissue of the 2006 album.