Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones by Cancer Bats

Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones, the third album from Toronto's Cancer Bats, came out on Distort Entertainment in Canada on April 13, 2010, and its title is simply the four members' nicknames: Mike Peters was Bear, Scott Middleton was Mayor, singer Liam Cormier was Scraps and Jaye R. Schwarzer was Bones.

It's a filthy, riff-heavy collision of hardcore punk, sludge metal and Southern rock swagger, with Cormier barking over the top like a man trying to shout down a hurricane. "Dead Wrong" was the first single, and "Sabotage", already out with its own video on the band's EP of the same name, is a ferocious, sweat-soaked highlight. Anyone who pre-ordered got a bonus DVD with 2 hours of live footage and a look at the making of the record.

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