Birthing the Giant explained

Birthing the Giant
Type:	studio
Artist:	Cancer Bats
Cover:	Cancer Bats - Birthing the Giant cover.jpg
Released:	June 6, 2006
Recorded:	2005–2006
Genre:	Hardcore punk, metalcore, sludge metal
Length:	40:10
Label:	Distort^[1]
Producer:	Gavin Brown
Prev Title:	Cancer Bats EP
Prev Year:	2005
Next Title:	Hail Destroyer
Next Year:	2007

Birthing the Giant is Cancer Bats' first full-length album.^[2] It was released on June 6, 2006, by Distort Entertainment in Canada and on September 5, 2006, by Abacus Recordings in the US.

Videos were shot for "100 Grand Canyon," "French Immersion," and "Pneumonia Hawk."

Critical reception

Exclaim! wrote that "with all the swagger of Southern rock but all the slummy goodness of New York City punk, the Cancer Bats slam through 12 impressively heavy tracks."^[3] The Skinny called the album "a pick-squealing romp of metal riffery interspersed with some slamming punk chord progressions."

Track listing

1. "Golden Tanks" – 3:46
2. "French Immersion" – 3:10
3. "Grenades" – 3:51
4. "Shillelagh" – 3:19
5. "Butterscotch" – 3:08
6. "Death Bros" – 4:48
7. "Firecrack This" – 3:30
8. "Diamond Mine" – 4:16
9. "100 Grand Canyon" – 2:44
10. "Ghost Bust That" – 3:47
11. "Pneumonia Hawk" (featuring George Pettit of Alexisonfire) – 3:55

Bonus track

• "Roy Rogers Party" – 3:28

External links

• Official Website
• Official Cancer Bats Myspace page
• "Birthing The Giant" album lyrics

Notes and References

1. Web site: DISTORT : BANDS : CANCER BATS. March 21, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060321152108/http://www.teamdistort.com/bands/cancerbats/. 2006-03-21.
2. Web site: Cancer Bats | Biography & History. AllMusic.
3. Web site: Cancer Bats Birthing the Giant. exclaim.ca.