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FEB 02 – Cancer Bats announce exclusive London show. The band will be playing a one-off UK gig in London at the Relentless Garage on Friday April 16th. Support will come from Trash Talk and Chickenhawk. Get your tickets now!!

JAN 27 – Cancer Bats In Session on the Radio 1 Rock Show. Cancer Bats were featured in session on this week's Rock Show with Daniel P Carter on Radio 1 last night. The band played 3 tracks recorded exclusively for the show at Maida Vale studios, including their cover of the Beastie Boys' Sabotage. Don't worry if you missed it - you can listen again here on BBC iPlayer. But hurry, it'll only be up for a week!

JAN 17 – Sabotage release date announced. In August last year Cancer Bats blew the crowd at Sonisphere away with a cover of the Beastie Boys' Sabotage. This is set to be the next Cancer Bats single and will be released on March 2nd as a two track EP along with new song Dead Wrong. We'll be featuring the video for Sabotage right here as soon as it's released, so keep checking back!

NOV 08 – Two UK Tour Dates to go. So, the Billy Talent UK tour has now finished and most of the headlining shows have been and gone too. If you didn't manage to make any of those gigs, you can still catch Cancer Bats at two rescheduled headline tour dates in York and Bournemouth at the beginning of December. Get the tour dates and tickets here. Support at York Fibbers comes from The Computers, Drowned In Flames and Teen Zu. Support at Bournemouth iBar comes from The Computers.

SEP 14 – Cancer Bats reveal new album title. Cancer Bats are currently working on album number 3 in Canada and have revealed to Rock Sound that it will be titled Bears, Mayors, Scrapes And Bones. The album will likely be released in early 2010.

SEP 08 – UK Headline Tour Dates added. As expected, Cancer Bats have announced a number of headline gigs around the time of their shows with Billy Talent in October and November. Get your Cancer Bats tickets here.

AUG 21 – Cancer Bats to play Hellfire Festival. The band have been added to the main stage line-up of the Hellfire Festival on Friday November 6th. Electric Eel Shock will also play the main stage of Hellfire II on the Friday. Other bands confirmed for the 3-day festival include Saxon, Anvil, The Plight, Trigger The Bloodshed, Fields Of The Nephilim, My Dying Bride and Viking Skull. Tickets are priced at £25 per day or £55 for the weekend and can be bought here. This addition to the Cancer Bats tour schedule leaves plenty of room for a few headline dates following the Billy Talent tour before Hellfire takes place. Fingers crossed! Full Cancer Bats Tour Dates.

AUG 19 – Cancer Bats to Support Billy Talent. Cancer Bats have been added as the main support for Billy Talent's 10 date October/November UK tour. Extra support at these gigs will come from Canterbury. Full tour dates and tickets are here! Get your tickets NOW!!

JUL 02 – Cancer Bats add more UK tour dates. Some more Cancer Bats gigs have been added around the time of their upcoming performance at the Sonisphere Festival on August 2nd. The band will be headlining the second stage of Hevy Fest in Folkestone the day before (August 1st) as well as playing a headline show at White Rabbit in Plymouth on August 3rd. Cancer Bats have also been added as support to Fucked UP at their On The Rocks gig in Newquay on August 4th. You owe it to yourself to be at at least one of these shows! Go here for tour dates and tickets.

JUN 23 – Awesome Cancer Bats T-Shirt FTW. Check out this rad Cancer Bats T-shirt design by Stephen Shaw, a Toronto based designer and artist. I really hope this actually gets made - it'd be a more than worthy addition to the current Cancer Bats Tshirts available to buy.

MAY 11 – New interview with Liam. Laura Callan interviews Cancer Bats frontman Liam Cormier before their recent headline show at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms on May 6th. Watch the interview here.

MAY 05 – Cancer Bats to play Sonisphere Festival. Festival organisers have added a third stage to Sonisphere. The Bohemia stage will feature Cancer Bats on August 2nd, the day which is headlined by Metallica and also features Nine Inch Nails, Machine Head, Avenged Sevenfold, Alice In Chains, Mastodon, Hundred Reasons & Architects. Get your Sonisphere tickets here before they sell out!

APR 20 – Hail Destroyer Special Edition. A new expanded re-issue of Cancer Bats' Hail Destroyer is released today and features 4 extra tracks and a bonus DVD. New tracks included are Engine Skull, a new Cancer Bats track recorded during the Hail Destroyer sessions; Agenda Suicide, a cover of band The Faint; So Jealous, a Teagan & Sara cover; and I Want a Lot (So Come On), a Muder City Devils cover. The DVD features live footage of Smiling Politely, French Immersion, Sorceress, Shillelagh & Hail Destroyer and exclusive behind the scenes tour footage. Buy the special edition of Hail Destroyer now for just £7.99!

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