The Cancer Bats will be special guests of Devildriver at the Generator Wednesday night.
Metal is not just for the young but also the young at heart. Just ask the grandma of Cancer Bats' bass player Jaye Schwarzer. She makes sure she attends every show when the band visits her home town.
"If grandmas can come [to our show], everyone can come to our show," laughed drummer Mike Peters.
Cancer Bats plays a mixture of rock 'n' roll and metal, with hard core and punk influences.
"And if you need to classify it, I guess our sound is metal. It's hard to say it's just one genre 'cause we wanna play them all," Peters said. And we do, he added.
Peters said he has heard comments like, "the album's good but you gotta see them live,"
but the Cancer Bats have changed all that with their latest album, Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones, which is as good as any of their live shows, said Peters.
"We always used to get those kinds of comments and we always kinda felt that way, and we wanna sound the same as the record," said Peters. "We don't want people to come to the show and be way more excited and then never listen to the record again, you know?
"We really love doing what we do. I look at it like this, everybody that doesn't play in a band usually goes to work for eight hours a day, so if I have to drive for four hours, then get on stage and play for an hour - that's only five hours a day - plus an hour for set up and tear down, that's only six hours a day and I'm laughing."
The Cancer Bats will be special guests of Devildriver from California. The Bats will be promoting their latest album, Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones, released April 2010. The album title comes from the nicknames of all the band members.
"I think it's going to be a crazy show," said Peters. "Loud, fast, hard and a lot of fun. It's going to be great."
