The Cancer Conspiracy was an instrumental post-prog group from Burlington, VT. Their first EP was released in 2001 by So Good Music, followed by their genre defining full-length The Audio Medium in 2002 (Big Wheel Rec.). They toured extensively with The Blood Brothers, Cave In, Your Enemies' Friends, Piebald, The Damn Personals, and Oysterhead. The Audio Medium was accompanied by a concept likening theories of the government suppressing a cure for cancer to the contemporary state of commercial radio. The group was haunted by unexplainable misfortune throughout their career, and after performing at CMJ 2003 in New York, their van was stolen, along with all of their equipment.
Bassist Brent Frattini left the group to join Daughters (Hydra Head Records), while guitarist Daryl Rabidoux and drummer/keyboardist Greg Beadle continued writing new material. Bringing in Johnny Northup (The Burning Paris, The Octave Museum) to
fill in on bass, the reformed trio returned to the studio with Matt Squire (Thrice, Hot Water Music, Panic! At The Disco) to record what would become their last eight songs.
After spending over three years in legal limbo following the collapse of former label Big Wheel Recreation (Piebald, Jimmy Eat World, At The Drive In), the follow-up to The Cancer Conspiracy's 2002 instrumental post-prog masterpiece The Audio Medium will finally see the light of day. The 8 song full-length, simply titled as the Greek astrological symbol "Omega," is being co-released by the Boston collective Radar Recordings (Junius, Constants, Carrigan) and Wisconsin's Gilead Media (The Appleseed Cast, mewithoutYou, Mouth of The Architect) in North America, and Make My Day Records in Europe.
Radar and Gilead have been working for the past several years to restore the recording's legal rights to their proper owners: the band members themselves. With this accomplished, the album can now be made available to the public.
"Omega" is available in stores and online now (CD/vinyl/digital), or direct from Radar Recordings and Gilead Media.
“Complex polyrhythmic psychedelica for the discriminating consumer. Instrumental, textural, and deep. Possible descendents of King Crimson and Brian Eno.” - Aaron Turner (ISIS, Hydra Head Records)
“A new chapter of instrumental progression.” - Epitonic.com
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So since you guys are all about updating this page and keeping in contact with your fan base and putting out new shirts and shit....you should probably just get back together and brave the brutal touring roads and show your faces to the public again. You are still missed.
How's it going guys? Wanted to say hello, specially to Daryl. Hope all is well my friend. Hoping you get together with Jericho Trumpet again for some more recordings! Till then take care bro.
just found Audio Medium in a box yesterday...played...still....A great disc, was talked into seeing the New Deal at Mt Snow 6 yrs ago or so, and CC opened up! And, blew them away, Greg you are one hell of a drummer....
