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Stream Cancer Bats' New Album, 'Searching For Zero'

“Learning all those Sabbath songs, I ended up having to figure out how to really sing."

Toronto metal-darlings Cancer Bats have risen from a five-year respite and returned with their fifth LP, Searching For Zero. Produced by Ross Robinson (whose production CV includes At The Drive-In, Slipknot, and The Cure), the band calls this LP its “most melodic yet menacing” release. Assuredly thrashy, Searching For Zero follows a grim period of “heavy contemplation” within the band, due to the wrenching deaths of a few close loved ones. Its title comes from “an acceptance of realities.”

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"We've found our absolute zero, where there can no longer be a negative, and from that point, everything moving forward can only be positive," says vocalist Liam Cormier.

In addition to being a tough silver lining, Searching For Zero gleans inspiration from the band’s iconic metal ancestors Black Sabbath. (In their off days, Cancer Bats cover Sabbath songs as cleverly-titled alter ego, “Bat Sabbath.") “In learning all those Sabbath songs, I ended up having to figure out how to really sing,” jokes Cormier.

Cancer Bats will tour the UK this spring alongside co-headliners While She Sleeps, and will play their first ever show in Japan early this month. Searching For Zero comes out March 10.