Searching For Zero

Searching For Zero is impressive in it's polarity - simultaneously the most melodic yet menacing Cancer Bats release, incorporating the crude hardcore punk of their 2006 debut, Birthing The Giant and more metal leanings of 2008's Hail Destroyer while pushing the heavy hybrid sounds of 2010's Mayors Bears Scraps and Bones and 2012's darker Dead Set On Living to a new plateau. As such, the 10 tracks that comprise Searching For Zero, produced by Ross Robinson, known for his work with Sepultura, Slipknot, At The Drive-In, Glassjaw, Blood Brothers and The Cure to only name a few, marks a new extension of the bands already staple sonic components - the urgency and intensity inherent in Cormier's vocals, Middleton's sometimes sludgy, sometimes raging riffage, and the grimy, gritty, heavy-hitting rhythm section of Peters and Schwarzer, are all present; however, the album boasts a more raw and organic tonal signature than any previous Bats collection, with melodic elements not only musically but also vocally, which Cormier largely credits to their producer and their metal idols.