Cancer was a British death / thrash metal band formed in Ironbridge Telford,Shropshire in 1988.Over the course of their career they released five full-length albums,including one for the major label East West,breaking up in 2006.No Fuckin' Cover had secured Cancer a deal with Vinyl Solution and in Winter 1989 the band recorded their
debut album, To the Gory End, over four days at Loco Studios in Usk.The record was then mixed by Scott Burns at Morrisound Studios with backing vocals from John Tardy (of Obituary) added to the track "Die, Die" and released in April 1990.The band followed it up with tours with Obituary and Deicide.Cancer started preparing material for their second album at Reel to Reel Studios in Telford with engineer Tony Higley, and in February 1991 flew out to Florida to begin recording Death Shall Rise with Scott Burns at Morrisound. They enlisted the skills of James Murphy (of Agent Steel and Obituary) on lead guitar and Deicide's Glen Benton to provide backing vocals for lead track "Hung,Drawn and Quartered". Released in April 1991,the album would go on to gain a certain amount of notoriety owing to being banned in Germany,whose state body for censorship of works likely to be dangerous to youth considered that the cover art would incite youngsters to incite violence upon each other.The album would also subsequently go on to be placed #27 in Terrorizer Magazine's Top 40 Death Metal Albums.Throughout May,Cancer toured throughout the UK supported by Unleashed and Desecrator,then returned to USA for an appearance at the 1991 Milwaukee Metal Festival and further touring in support of Deicide and Obituary.James Murphy left the band in December 1991 to form Disincarnate and was replaced by Barry Savage. This was followed by further touring throughout the USA, Mexico, Israel and Europe.The band recorded their third album,The Sins of Mankind with Simon Efemey at the Windings in Wrexham in December 1992.Following its release through Vinyl Solution in June 1993, Cancer embarked on a European tour with openers Cerebral Fix.Problems arose when drummer Stokes was involved in an accident when his motorbike collided with a British Telecom van,leading to the band enlisting Nicholas Barker (later of Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir) for further live shows.In 1994,Cancer left Vinyl Solution to sign to major label East West for worldwide distribution, one of the first death metal bands to do so.They entered Great Linford Studios in Milton Keynes, again with Simon Efemey at the helm, to record their fourth effort,Black Faith; the record was later mixed at Pink Floyd's Brittania Row Studios. Despite Stokes allegedly using a human thigh bone for percussion on "Temple Song",the record received decidly mixed reviews;some compared the Black Faith material to mid-period Metallica,whilst others considered it a "poor man's Heartwork".Following a short European
tour with support act Meshuggah,Cancer decided to call it a day,citing "a lack of faith from certain key individuals in the industry and Major Label Bullshit"

01 - Blood Bath
02 - C.F.C.
03 - Witch Hunt
04 - Into The Acid
05 - Imminent Catastrophy
06 - To The Gory End
07 - Body Count
08 - Sentenced
09 - Die Die

01 - Hung, Drawn And Quartered
02 - Tasteless Incest.
03 - Burning Casket
04 - Death Shall Rise
05 - Back From The Dead
06 - Gruesome Tasks
07 - Corpse Fire
08 - Internal Decay

01 - Cloak Of Darkness
02 - Electro-Convulsive Therapy
03 - Patchwork Destiny
04 - Meat Train
05 - Suffer For Our Sins
06 - Pasture Of Delights - At The E
07 - Tribal Bloodshed Part I - The
08 - Tribal Bloodshed Part II - Und

01 - Ants (Nemesis Ride)
02 - Who Do You Think You Are
03 - Face To Face
04 - Without Cause
05 - White Desire
06 - Kill Date
07 - Temple Song
08 - Black Faith
09 - Highest Orders
10 - Space Truckin
11 - Sunburnt
12 - Save Me From Myself

01 - Oil
02 - Witch Hunt (Hardcore live in the studio 2003)
03 - Dethroned Emperor (Nasty Nasty live in the studio)
04 - Oxygen Thieves (Don't Breathe My Air Mix)
05 - Oil (Severed Satchel Hairy Scary Mix)

01 - Insides Out
02 - Mindless Reactions
03 - Spirit In Flames
04 - Hell House
05 - Solar Prophesy
06 - Devils Playground
07 - Fistula
08 - Seance