[[File:Cancer4.jpg|thumb|Cancer(with James Murphy)]]

==Biography==

Cancer was formed one night in 1988 in the Tontine public house in Ironbridge, Telford by drummer Carl Stokes, guitarist John Walker and bassist Ian Buchanan.The band quickly put together their first two-track demo, ''No Fuckin' Cover'', at the Pits studio in Birmingham, owned by ex-Starfighters vocalist Steve Burton. The demo was produced by Stevie Young (brother of AC/DC's Angus Young) and engineered by "Big" Mick Hughes (live sound engineer for [[Metallica]]). The band also began playing live, starting with their first gig in Birmingham opening for Bomb Disneyland, and including shows with the likes of [[Bolt Thrower (band)|Bolt Thrower]], Cerebral Fix and [GBH.

In 1994, Cancer left Vinyl Solution to sign to major label [[East West Records|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", 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".

==Members==

===Final line-up===