Hardcore Punks Cancer Bats Announce New Album ‘Psychic Jailbreak’; Share New Music Video For Title Track

Canadian hardcore punk heavyweights Cancer Bats have announced their new album Psychic Jailbreak will be released on April 15, 2022 through their own label Bat Skull Records in partnership with New Damage Records in Canada. Psychic Jailbreak is Cancer Bats’ seventh studio album but is the band’s first album to be written and recorded by the current lineup of Liam Cormier (lead vocalist), Jaye Schwarzer (bass and guitar) and Mike Peters (drums), following the departure of founding member and guitarist Scott Middleton.

Psychic Jailbreak serves as a follow-up to their 2018 Juno nominated album The Spark That Moves, and continues their brand of ferocious and melodic hardcore style.

As a teaser to the new release, the band have shared the album’s title track and its accompanying video. About the song lead vocalist Liam Cormier shares: “We needed to kick things off with a total banger of a track that makes you want to pump your fist in the air, smash your head to the beat, all while screaming the call to action REJECT THE FALLACY OF TIME!” Cormier continues: “The concept of a Psychic Jailbreak is to completely change one’s perspective on something, in this case it’s our ideas of fixed linear time.”

Filmed by Sid Tang and edited by Mitch Barnes, the video for “Psychic Jailbreak” is a collection of footage capturing the recording process for their latest release. It features performances of all 3 members tracking their parts, behind the scenes shots of what life in the studio entailed, as well as Cormier’s handwritten lyrics animated over top of each scene. “My goal was to capture the intensity and power of the band, while still showing how relaxed and fun the whole recording session was,” shares Sid Tang.

Mission accomplished, as long-time fans of the band will be able to continue their head-banging to something new, yet familiar. Watch below: