Album Review: Cancer Christ – God is Violence (Seeing Red Records)

Hardcore punk band Cancer Christ are back to baptise the masses and cleanse the damned with their brand-new album, ‘God is Violence’, out on January 5th, 2024, via Seeing Red Records.

Starting off 2024 with an emphatic statement of abrasive and offensive noise, Cancer Christ have set the bar for vulgarity high already. Vulgarity that is infinitely appealing, thanks to the intense delivery of their unrelenting extreme hardcore-punk sound. From the moment the noise-mongers let loose, they don’t let up. It’s an evisceration of heavy, where twenty tracks fly by in a blur of garish wickedness.

Yes, you read that right. God is Violence is twenty tracks long, but fear not, this is an extreme hardcore-punk album with emphasis on the the word extreme. Cancer Christ are all about slapping the listener around the face in quick and violent succession. Twenty tracks that amount to around twenty-six minutes of noise. About as much as a person is liable to be able to handle.

Cancer Christ’s God is Violence unashamedly bashes the Christian faith, but that shouldn’t be too much of a surprise when you take into account the band’s name and the title of this album. However this is not just an angry band saying naughty things about Christianity. Cancer Christ say some really naughty things. They also happen to give their expressions so much weight via vocals that are spat out in an emphatically statement like way. It’s hard to not pay attention to every single word Cancer Christ say. Even if it’s just about the size of Jesus’ penis.

Hey, nobody said you have to take this music too seriously.

Although don’t let their more vile ways fool you into believing this is an album of nonsense. It’s far from that and across the twenty tracks, listeners will find plenty to let loose to. Cancer Christ have done an immense job of marrying hardcore and punk with heavier elements of the metal genre. The entire record comes with a menacing snarl that leads to a blood-drenched level of violence. Yet, it is so damn interesting. Come the end, the desire to go another round or two with Cancer Christ is high.

It’s not for everyone, that much is for sure, but if you’re after an early contender to make you feel queasy and dirty, God is Violence will deliver. The soundtrack to a second coming that no Christian would welcome.

Cancer Christ – God is Violence Track Listing:

1. Hail Christ Intro
2. Do You Wanna Go To Heaven
3. Baptized in Piss and Shit
4. God Hates Cops
5. Hail Christ I
6. Bring Back The Guillotine
7. Prosperity Preacher
8. Worship Interlude
9. Jesus Got a Big ‘Ol Cock
10. Tithe or Die
11. Hail Christ V
12. God Made Me Do It
13. Hail Christ IV
14. God Bless The Rapists
15. Taking Up Serpents
16. The Blood of Jesus
17. Satan is a Bitch
18. Hail Christ II
19. Make Them All Dead
20. Saint Anthony’s Sermon

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