One of the UK's premiere death metal purveyors of the late 80's and early 90's, & responsible for such genre classics as 'To the Gory End' (1990) & 'Death Shall Rise' (1991), Cancer marks 30 years of existence with their sixth full length studio album, reuniting all three original core members - John Walker on guitar/vocals, Ian Buchanan on bass and Carl Stokes on drums - for the first time since 1995. 'Shadow Gripped' features ten songs of brutal old school death metal, and was recorded at Foel studios, with Simon Efemey (Paradise Lost, Napalm Death, Amorphis) handling production and mixing duties alongside the band. Shadow Gripped is a crushing slab of death metal in the classic Cancer style.