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Birthing the Giant

Album by Cancer Bats

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionSep 24, 2026

Entity authorityQ2430824 ↗

Source-derived summary

Birthing the Giant is Cancer Bats' first full-length album. It was released on June 6, 2006, by Distort Entertainment in Canada and on September 5, 2006, by Abacus Recordings in the US.

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Critical reception

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Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Birthing the Giant” as album by Cancer Bats. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. The account is most persuasive where Birthing, Giant and Album can be independently traced.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by Cancer Bats. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2430824. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for

Identifying works and editions
Tracing reception history
Finding collection records

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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

Establish the record: confirm the title “Birthing the Giant”, its source revision and the description used here.
Expand the search: follow Birthing the Giant primary sources, Birthing the Giant archive and Birthing research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Birthing the Giant”?
Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?

Subject index

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Birthing the Giant” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.