Cancer: Hung, drawn and quartered

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Tribute to Cancer. Music is taken from their 'Death shall rise' album and videoclip is edited from 1991 bootleg which you can find in its' original form here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS3PJ__yPNY

Finding Cancer happened back in 1991 through following the events around Death, and / or in this case pretty much around James Murphy who was travelling from one band to another. I bought Cancer's "death shall rise" as LP based on the simple fact that James Murphy plays on it, didn't hear a song beforehand ... and it was a great purchase indeed. Really good album, oldschool death metal done with style. Listened to that album a lot, and not just because of James' soloworks - that was like icing on the cake which tasted deathly good. Cancer instantly became a band I started following as much as any bigger death metal name back then, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Death, Morbid Angel, ... etc. I really liked a lot Cancer's "the sins of mankind" album as well, it was a tight one, too, with some excellent tunes thrown in. It was bit different album already, but still so much deathy metal that it can't be called as bridge to the weird album that is "black faith". Perhaps it's even more weird (it certainly was back in 1995!), but I enjoyed "black faith" to some extent as well, even that it was such a jaw dropping change in style for the band ... out with the death metal, in with indescricable metal genre which occasionally sounds freakin' heavy. Clearly Cancer's peak point to me back in the stone age was "death shall rise" (after which I hunted down their debut "to the gory end" which is more primitive but rather enjoyable one, too) and certainly "the sins of mankind" too, which has some really great moments (first half of the album especially). Actually if thinking about "black faith" - initial shock reaction ("this is not death metal!!") passed surprisingly quickly, and instead of being replaced with disgust towards the music, it was replaced by awe for the new style. I listened to that weird album quite a lot, too, and I was actually disappointend the band broke up - would had been interesting to hear what kind of followup would had been to the album like "black faith".

Anyway, this video edit is about "death shall rise" era, so ... enjoy!

PS: It is good that Cancer is still active, I've seen them live so far once (evidence can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMI6v_husBI) and it felt great to see the original trio playing all those oldschool death metal tunes. Interesting to see what kind of material Cancer shall record with the new lineup (which I'll see live next August) now that only John Walker is the only original member remaining. Hopefully some great OSDM material, ... or then taking a suprise jump into the dimensions of some black faith, perhaps?