Cancer Bats

Proving that loud, gritty, and ranting punk rock is still alive and thrashing in Canada, Toronto's Cancer Bats employ a punishing blend of hardcore punk, metalcore, Southern rock, and sludge metal. Citing a wide berth of musical inspirations, including Black Flag, Down, Led Zeppelin, Entombed, and Black Sabbath (they have toured Canada as a Sabbath cover band under the moniker Bat Sabbath) they emerged in 2006 with the hard-hitting Birthing the Giant. They caught fire in the early 2010s, earning Juno Award nominations for 2011's Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones and 2013's Dead Set on Living.

Orange County’s Ignite aren’t another punk rock/hardcore band. They don’t wear make up. They don’t care about image. They aren’t a here today, gone tomorrow flash in the pan. They aren’t tired scenesters, clinging desperately to the past. So what, you ask, are Ignite? That’s easy.

Ignite, who’ve been making music together since forming in 1993, are a successful, international act with a diehard global following. They’ve got a proven, rabid fanbase that populates over 30 countries, thanks to their Iron Man tour scheduling. People go crazy for Ignite all over Europe, Australia, South America, and in their native US, and that’s why the band lives on the road, bringing the fans what they want and what they need.

Ignite are rock band with hardcore roots, a rock band that supports a series of environmentally and socially conscious groups like Doctors Without Borders, Habitat For Humanity, Sea Shepherds, Project Blue Sea, and Earth First. Ignite have donated the proceeds from a series of seven inches, ten inches, and splits to these causes

Bristolian Post Punk band Knives bring their pop infused style and Idles-esq noise, they have been creating a reputation in the punk and alternative scene playing shows with Life, Soul Glo and James and the Cold Gun whilst receiving attention from anyone who hears their EP.

They have put a unique spin on what punk is known for, creating their own noise with their saxophonist Maddy Hill who plays alongside Dan Farren and Josh Cook on guitar, bassist Ben Marshall, Erin Cook on Drums and Jay Schottlander on vocals (and on-stage nonsensical chatter). They all take creative leaps to design new waves as heard on Newshounds, spitting out dramatic breakdowns and aggressive lyrics.