Cancer Bats (EP)

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Cancer Bats
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EP by
Released2005
RecordedOctober 2004
Genre Hardcore punk
Length10:37
Label Self-released
Producer Scott Middleton
Cancer Bats chronology
Cancer Bats
(2005)
Birthing the Giant
(2006)

Cancer Bats was the first EP by the band Cancer Bats. It was produced and engineered by Cancer Bats' guitarist Scott Middleton. This EP was sold at all the live shows leading up until the release of Cancer Bats' first album Birthing the Giant and later repressed as a 7" record by Tragicomedy Records. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Track listing

  1. Bloodpact – 3:02
  2. Shillelagh – 3:20
  3. Ragin' Hard – 2:35
  4. Technolokron – 1:38

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