Tag Archives: Cancer Bats

Concert Calendar (3/06-3/10): For Blackened Steel, For the Gloryflame,…It’s All for Heavy Metal. Gloryhammer, Hulder, & more

Posted by on March 6, 2024

  I really can’t believe that around this time in two weeks, it’s gonna be spring, a season where crisp weather, outdoor dining and the best damn tours you’ll find await us in equal doses. Alright, ya’ll! I listed the absolute best new gigs for you to check out this week. It’s always a pleasure […]

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GWAR announce March 2024 North American Tour Dates

Posted by on December 5, 2023

  GWAR have announced their return to the road in March 2024 for the Age of Befuddlement tour, with support from Cancer Bats, and on select dates will see X-Cops and Fuming Mouth. The trek begins on March 3rd in Norfolk, VA and will run through March 30th in Baltimore, MD. Tickets go on sale […]

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Concert Calendar (11/29-12/4): Metal Gives – Amon Amarth, High on Fire, & more

Posted by on November 29, 2022

  Ayo! Fellow concert junkies! Thanks for reading your Metal Insider concert calendar and for caring about live music, and for doing whatever it took for live music’s return. How was your feast of the beast 2022? Despite a brief four-day break for many, there are still so many great shows happening this week to […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/27: A lackluster week of charts

Posted by on May 10, 2022

  Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Here are the numbers for the April 15th releases. Not many albums were released and the overall numbers were down. Sad to see but hopefully next week picks it up.   Notable Debuts: Monuments, In […]

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Cancer Bats part ways with guitarist Scott Middleton

Posted by on October 6, 2021

  Guitarist Scott Middleton of Cancer Bats has announced his departure from the band. The band, also known as “Bat Sabbath,” have postponed their upcoming shows. An amicable parting of ways was described by Middleton in this Twitter statement,   Thank you all for everything. Here’s to the future 🙏🔥❤️🤘#cancerbats pic.twitter.com/6mJ2rE2bm0 — Scott Middleton (@scoebcity) […]

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Coronavirus: Cancer Bats hint at tour postponement

Posted by on March 21, 2020

 

Although not officially announced, it doesn’t look like Terror’s tour with Dust Bolt and Cancer Bats will happen next month due to the COVID-19 outbreak as Cancer Bats loosely explained how the pandemic is “cancelling everything.” Hopefully, one of these groups will officially announce a postponement or perhaps, the shows are still on as this time of uncertainty continues.

 

 

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Metal By Numbers 5/2: The elephant on the charts

Posted by on May 2, 2018

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. To be fair, A Perfect Circle were longer overdue for a new album than Tool; their last album came out on 2004 whereas 10,000 Days came out in 2006. Plus, that last album was a […]

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Download Festival announces over 65 more additional bands to 2018 lineup

Posted by on January 29, 2018

  The UK’s Download Festival has expanded their 2018 line up by adding over 65 more bands to their previously announced headliners. And still even more bands are expected to be announced as well. Download takes place at Donnington Park June 8-10, 2018. Previously Announced Headliners Ozzy Osbourne Guns N’ Roses Avenged Sevenfold Marilyn Manson […]

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Kataklysm pick up Juno Award for best metal album

Posted by on April 4, 2016

They do things different in Canada, and just because Drake, The Weeknd and Justin Bieber are dominating the pop world doesn’t mean they don’t have a perfectly robust metal scene. Take, for example, the Juno Awards, the Canadian version of the Grammys. We already wrote about the fact that their nominees for “Heavy Metal Album […]

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Cancer Bats, Diemonds metal-fy Canadian pop songs

Posted by on March 24, 2016

The Juno Awards are the Canadian version of the Grammys, and with the awards coming up on April 3, anticipation is starting to grow. And for some reason, metalcore band Diemonds recruited fellow Canuck Liam Cormier from Cancer Bats to do a metal medley of the Single of the Year nominees. Since so much pop […]

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