Rally The Wicked

Album: Dead Set On Living (2012)
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  • This is a single from Canadian metal punks, Cancer Bats, fourth full length album, Dead Set On Living. Frontman Liam Cormier told Terrorizer magazine how an online hater influenced the cut. "This is the first song that I actually wrote, lyrically, for the record," he explained. "I think it went up somewhere on the internet, but there was some thing like 'Cancer Bats are starting to work on a new album' and all these kids were like 'aw, this is the best,' writing comments like 'fu--ing can't wait!,' 'so stoked' and then somebody wrote like 'f--k this band, when are these guys gonna stop making music' and I looked at it and was like, 'oh you don't want us to make any more music? Well guess what mother fu--er, I'm gonna make music forever, just to piss you off. Like f--k you!' Like, how is me being in a band really affecting your life, where just like this is the worst, the fact that we're putting out a new record. So I kinda thought of this funny response to all s--t talkers, you know like in all thrash songs they'll have this funny kind of aspect to it, this is like my vibe. So any of those s--t talkers, it was the idea of a pack of ogres going into to their bedrooms and smashing their computers and eating them alive. That was my mentality for the song, so a fun song about that."

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