Cancer Bats - Celebrating 20 Years of Birthing the Giant w/Anciients, Teeth, Chastity
Schedule
Tue Apr 14 2026 at 06:30 pm to 11:59 pm
UTC-06:00Location
The Exchange | Regina, SK
Tuesday, April 14th Cancer Bats - Celebrating 20 Years of Birthing the Giant
Anciients
Teeth
Chastity
The Exchange - 2431 8th Ave
This is an all ages & Licensed event
Doors at 6:30pm
Tickets on sale at TheExchangeLive.ca Friday, Jan 16th at 10:00am and Vintage Vinyl soon
Cancer Bats
With 17 years under their belt including 6 acclaimed studio albums, five Juno Award nominations, and countless tours around the globe, Canadian hardcore punk heavyweights, Cancer Bats are a well-known force within the world of heavy music. On their seventh studio album, PSYCHIC JAILBREAK (out April 15 via their own label Bat Skull Records in partnership with New Damage Records), the beloved metal stalwarts found themselves once again stepping into new territory as a band, writing and recording as a three-piece following the departure of founding member and guitarist Scott Middleton, while navigating a global pandemic.
“On October 26th 2021 we started making a record,” shares lead vocalist Liam Cormier. “This was the 7th studio album for Cancer Bats but it was the first time the 3 of us, Jaye Schwarzer, Mike Peters and myself Liam Cormier, were going to record an album, we had written just the three of us. Jaye covering both guitar and bass duties, all three of us learning how to use digital means to record and arrange ideas from our separate provinces.”
Cormier continues, “We knew this album had to be special. Our band has never been one sole member tasked with all the writing. Over the last 15 years of releasing albums, it’s been a collaboration of the 4 of us forming all musical ideas. That being said, we knew that the 3 remaining Bats, would have to prove our worth with this next album. We wanted to show Cancer Bats fans that an exciting new future was in store for us. To say the stakes were high on this album, would be an understatement. We were all feeling a mix of excitement and nerves as we began tracking the 11 songs that would form this record.”
Once again enlisting the watchful eyes and ears of producer JP Peters (Propagandhi) at his studio Private Ear in Winnipeg, MB, Cancer Bats were looking to step up their game on their latest record and were eager to push beyond what they had achieved on their last studio album, 2018’s critically-acclaimed, commercially successful and Juno nominated album The Spark That Moves.
“The Spark That Moves saw the band playing bigger shows and festival slots than we had done in years,” shares Cormier. “With packed shows across Canada, The UK, Europe and Australia, the bar had been raised for Cancer Bats and we were eager to surpass that, with this new set of songs.”
Over the next three weeks, Cormier, Schwarzer and Peters saw their rough ideas exchanged in emails evolve from Garage Band home demos into thundering Cancer Bats songs. One after another, boxes were being ticked, Mike’s signature power house of drums laid the foundation, as track after track of Jaye’s guitars were layered on top of another, all while they referenced their favourite Entombed, Metallica and White Zombie guitar tones. All of this fuelling Cormier’s vocal fire, inspiring him to fully push what he had to offer both in lyrics and screams.
https://www.facebook.com/cancerbats
https://linktr.ee/CancerBats
Anciients
It’s been a rough handful of years for British Columbia-based extremity-laced progressive rockers, Anciients. When the quartet unleashed their Voice of the Void album in 2016, the world appeared to be their oyster and things seemed ripe for the picking. They were coming off the success of their Heart of Oak debut from 2013, its ascendancy due in large part to a collective uptick in interest for involved, forward-thinking music. The public had moved beyond toe-dipping and tire-kicking, and were instead doing headfirst dives into exploring the likes of Opeth, Mastodon, Baroness, The Ocean, Intronaut and others who originally hailed from the extreme music underground, but had since grown, matured and scrubbed behind their ears to include heaping and healthy chunks from the outskirts of their record collections and influence pools.
The Band That Auto- Correct Loves to Fuck With™ shared stages with everyone from High on Fire and Goatwhore to Boris and Lamb of God, were in the midst of a European tour when they discovered they were JUNO Award (Canadian Grammy equivalent) winners in the heavy metal/hard rock category. The world was ready to accept Anciients into its welcoming arms. Anciients was gearing up to employ takeover methods, specifically their brand of thunderous rhythms and labyrinthine riffing bolstered by a road warrior mentality. And then, the momentum petered out and the band seemingly fell off the face of the earth.
Today, Anciients are ready and poised to resume their spirited quest for heavy metal paramountcy. There’s no doubt the band is back and with a stunning and beautiful collection of ten songs on offer in the form of new and third album, Beyond the Reach of the Sun, they are positioning to reestablish themselves as a dominant force for those who love windmilling their tresses around thoughtful tempo changes, complex harmonic layers and driving power chord shifting. But what the hell happened and where did they disappear to?
https://www.facebook.com/ANCIIENTSRIFFS
https://anciients.bigcartel.com/
Teeth
Born from a musician’s desire to re-envelope their life in the heaviness that is metal and to refamiliarize with a conduit that could be considered detrimental amidst today’s destructive society, the gritty powerhouse that is TEETH emerged from the sludge of a foul generation. While many bands are enslaving themselves to the algorithm, TEETH simply allows their music to be a conductor for the inevitable pain and violence that is reality. Their adherence to this artistic integrity is a huge part of what caught the eye of heavy metal foundry, Nuclear Blast Records. Recently signed to the label, this new union stands only to further amplify into the new year. “This band; this vehicle, is fueled by very personal experiences for both Chris and I. It’s what made the whole situation so effortless, but it’s also made it organic and pure, and I think that’s what’s been received so well as far as what we’ve put into this,” describes Prince. Resolved to utilize the carcasses of their conquered demons as fodder for a new euphonious weapon, TEETH wanted to create the most ignorant, aggressive sounding music imaginable.
https://www.facebook.com/teethnoise
https://linktr.ee/teethnoise
Chastity
Chastity is for the skids, the headbangers, the freaks. Their latest record hurtles through hardcore, metal and punk, all enormously rendered thanks to John Paul Peters (Propagandhi, Cancer Bats, Comeback Kid), who engineered the record.
The new record arrives on the heels of a whirlwind few years for the Whitby Ontario band. There weren’t any venues for independent punk music in their suburban town, so Chastity started throwing punk shows in a barn in Whitby’s rural outskirts. People took notice: Before long, punk stalwarts like PUP and Metz were making the pilgrimage to the barn to headline gigs, and profits from the shows went to a regional youth mental health services. Chastity spent the next years touring North America including shows with Sunny Day Real Estate, Amyl and The Sniffers and Deafheaven.
www.facebook.com/chastitysongs
https://www.chastitysongs.com/
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Where is it happening?
The Exchange, 2431 8th Ave ,Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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