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Psychic Celebrations with LIAM CORMIER From CANCER BATS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  What's up? This is Liam from Cancer Bats. We're coming over on tour
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  very soon to Australia and uh playing a bunch of dates all over and can't
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  wait to be there the beautiful lam Thanks for joining us to saveing brother.
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  Yeah hell yeah man, thanks for having me by pleasure, says you say.
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  The Cancer Bats return to Astralia next month for a running show, starting
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  in Brisbane on Dream to thirty eight, then hitting Newcastle of Sydney, Camber
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  and Melbourne before finishing an Adelaide on during the twenty first Like it's not long
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  now, bro, Like, are you the sort of person get packed it
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  ready to go a couple of weeks out or do you leave things to the
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  last minute. I mean, I'm still on this tour, so I have
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  like a bag of dirty laundry. Okay, cool, I'm ready to go.
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  I could just like put this in the wash and then repack my bags.
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  I feel like this last bunch of touring, we've been really busy,
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  so it's almost like just having a bag packed and like ready to rip is
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  how I've been living. Bag ready. Yeah. So this is going to
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  be your first visit here since twenty nineteen, mate, So what's changed with
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  the band and since last time here Ebria. Uh, Well, last time
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  we played, we had Wade McNeil from Alexis on Fire playing guitar with us.
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  Uh And since then we've had a couple other folks on the guitar duties.
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  But now our our homie Jackson is going to be is going to be
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  shredding for both the Cancer Bats and the Bat Sabbath shows. Hu. So
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  yeah, so you get to Australia, we'll get to meet our new our
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  new favorite. He calls us his uncles because he's younger. He's like a
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  twenty seven year old little ripper. Oh Jesus running rings around you. Yeah
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  wow. I mean he always laughs that we've got more energy than him.
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  So I mean you see just like a filling guitars for the tour or is
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  he out of the band? Yeah, I mean he's definitely a part of
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  the band like this, Like this last tour that we did has been like
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  one full year of touring with him, So definitely like no plans on you
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  know, getting rid of him. He's awesome, He totally And yeah,
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  we've already started like talking about writing a new record and Jackson's definitely like in
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  on the mix on that. So yeah, fantastic. Now you gotta be
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  tour on the back of your latest albums, like a Job Break that came
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  out in mid twenty twenty two, mate, So how was the Responsible album?
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  Did bands get in do it as much as you hope they would?
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  Yeah, Yeah, it's definitely been awesome. I think for us to have,
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  like, you know, put out a seventh record and to have like
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  people like asking for tracks off of it and like singing along and stuff like
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  feels awesome. You know. It definitely feels like it's always like a challenge
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  to keep like you know, writing bangers and like to have stuff that we
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  can like keep in the set that I'll like have, you know, just
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  as much impact as some of the like Lucifer's Rocking Chairs and like Bricks and
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  Mortars and like those kind of tunes. So to have like another album where
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  people are like, oh man, are you gonna play the Hoof? We're
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  like, yeah, okay, sick, Yeah, it's really cool. So
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  yeah, we've been playing a bunch off of that album, but we we
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  mix it up. We definitely still play tons of stuff off every record,
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  so that actually writes a bit of an interesting point, Brian, Like you
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  mentioned the seven albums that you've done and so many songs, So are you
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  find it it's becoming easier on how to come up with fresh new songs the
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  more you're right as you get on. I mean, I think it's always
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  like because you always want to outdo the last kind of like thing. You
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  always want to be like pushing or for us at least like as musicians and
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  as songwriters, and you know, you're like wanting to like keep pushing the
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  envelope and like kind of like have for me. I like the challenge of
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  like wanting to have like a song that'll like sit in the set list and
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  like we'll like kind of like be up there with you know, like I
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  said those other like you write a song that Heale Destroyer that everyone like wants,
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  you know, to party too, and then you're like, okay,
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  I need to like that's the bar to be like right. Yeah, So
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  it feels good when you like write something like like Lonely Bong that like people
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  really really got into as so it's like okay, cool, Like this feels
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  good, like you know, to be like hitting the bat standard so that
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  all of that bride, Like, what would you say your your favorite song
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  to play live? Is like is it the same all the time for you?
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  Does it change? Not? Should? I? I feel like it
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  definitely. Like I mean it's cool to see like a song like Bricks and
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  Mortar that's like such a party like kind of banger. I love seeing that.
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  Like that song has like kind of like become you know, like a
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  staple to the set and like the people are really really pumped on it.
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  So there's some songs like that it just like gets me so fired up,
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  Like I don't want to play Bricks and Mortar like every single set. I'm
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  always Now you've chosen to Sydney band Faints as a national support for the Runner
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  Shows, mate, So how about you know about them? So we actually
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  have like a pretty cool history with that band. We met them at Heathrow
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  Airport, like way back when their old band was basically breaking up. So
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  the guys like minus the singer, we're in another band that had done a
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  UK tour and we were both parking at the like Heathrow Airport to like we
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  were flying back to Canada. They were flying back to Australia and they were
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  like we got out of it. We both got out of our vans at
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  the same time, and we were just like, yeah, what's up.
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  You guys are a band, Like, yeah, we're a band, but
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  Fan's breaking up. And I was like, you know, just like we
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  had finished tour, I'm excited talking to a bunch of strangers, and I
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  was like, who cares, man, Like start a new band, like
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  start a new band on this flight and like fly home and like that's it,
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  like old band's done, Like start a new band, like do it.
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  And I guess they kind of got fired up on the idea and literally
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  like flew back to Australia and started Fangs. Yeah, ended up getting a
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  Canadian guy that we know to like be the singer, which is like again
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  like a weird connection like mix to kind of like the mythos of the band.
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  So then full circle in twenty nineteen, we played the Sydney Show with
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  Fangs. Wow. Yeah, And so it's kind of been cool to like
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  continue this now. So it's like Fans is like doing really good, like
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  they're touring and like like people are getting into them. So it's just like,
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  oh man, yeah, like let's do a Fang's like Cancer Bats tour.
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  That's fucking awesome. And you've also got two local supports in each city
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  too, bro, which which I commend you for. You know, like
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  it's great to see an overseas band coming out and giving some of our up
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  and comings bands a chance in their hometown, right, So good on you.
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  Yeah, I mean definitely like huge shout out to destroy all lines for
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  like getting in the mix and like those like all the locals or for the
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  most part, like we know that there's an awesome Australian steam but for some
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  like we don't know as many bands, so we're like asking friends and like
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  definitely like finding out about as many bands as we can, but destroy all
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  lines. Like Jaden, who was like doing the tour h sent us a
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  sick list of like bands and like definitely helped put that together. So we
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  were really pumped to do that. And then on top of that to have
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  like doing the Bad Sabbage shows. We also have Potion that are doing those
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  dates with us too, so it's yeah, there's like so many cool bands
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  that are on this tour. Okay, but one of the bands you go
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  to Brisbane Piston Fish. I actually many Joys guys and the singer is a
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  tattooist based on Okay, it does all my work. So if you want
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  any stuff done many over in Australia. Mate, you're in Brisbane for your
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  first show, hit him up. He's fucking good. Yeah yeah, oh
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  yeah, So wait I just mentioned this probably bit your alter egos. Thatt
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  Sabbath will be playing exclusive shows in Sydney and Melbourne. So but I was
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  unfamiliar with with that band, tell us bit more about him. So Bat
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  Sabbath is our Black Sabbath. We call it like a worship band, so
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  we definitely like, uh, have a lot of fun with it. We
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  like where you know, very like you look like seventies Sabbath. All the
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  guys have mustaches, I get like big mutton chops cape. We kind of
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  like go like next level with it. But then we do like cancer Bats
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  versions of those songs, so there's like videos of it like online. But
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  we definitely try and make the songs heavier sometimes like a little bit faster,
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  definitely like more like we want to get a pit going and like make it
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  like a party as well as like a full on Sabbath worship. Fuck that
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  sounds also on you doing Sydney and Melbourne're gonna make me jump on a plane.
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  Yeah that was the reason we were like, no, we just like
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  we couldn't figure it out to get as many dates as we could to like
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  to fit it all in. So yeah, we can only we can only
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  do the two shows. So apologies to Brisbane, uh because people that were
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  bound, but all the more reason to travel and party and uh come and
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  have fun, very chapping with my friend. So but for thimese out there
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  who might not have seen Cancer Backs live mate, Like, what what can
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  fans expect? Like what's the typical Cancer Bat show? I've seen you a
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  couple of times and I'm just bats crazy is how I describe it. But
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  how would you describe I feel like Cancer Bats also in Australia is like a
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  perfect storm because like we love to get rowdy and go crazy and like have
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  a blast, and I feel like Australians also share that like vibe and like
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  want to go crazy. So I feel like for people who have never seen
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  us before, like these Australian shows are gonna like be nuts, like everyone
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  goes off, Like it's definitely like a sweaty, fun like party for sure.
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  Hell yeah, I on the plip side of that bright, like,
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  is there anything like a crowd the crowds can do to make your experience better?
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  I guess there was there anything I can do to make you get off
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  stage and just go like fuck, that was a good show. I mean,
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  like anytime people are just like having a blast, you know what I
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  mean, like singing along and like just like having a great I do love
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  that. Like cancer bats shows like aren't the pit isn't intimidating, So there's
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  like everybody is like involved. There's tons of like you know, like uh,
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  girls, guys, everybody like in the pit, Like everyone's partying and
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  singing along. It's definitely like a really fun, positive kind of like vibe.
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  So that's what that's what we definitely love about it. Wait is well,
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  thanks very much for you talking that absolutely pressure as always right. The
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  Tool kicks off in Brisbane on June the third eightything guys pretty much everywhere,
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  So I get hold of tickets now and have a party with the boys.
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  Hell yeah right actually Brisbane, my friend awesome, Mantes dude like it. You