Christian punk band ‘cleanses damned’ with blood baptisms and wild chants at bizarre gig

WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: Cancer Christ gave a performance they claimed was a “truly religious experience” – including offering a stomach-churning ritual to willing audience members

A dark cult-like punk band performed a strange gig last week that vowed to “cleanse the damned”, complete with blood baptisms of audience members and wild chants.

Cancer Christ, which plays music from a genre known as Reptilian Christian Christ Violence, appeared at a Barroom Blitz event at Knucklehead Hollywood in Los Angeles on Thursday night – and performed more than just music.

Cancer Christ aims to “cleanse the damned”, with an ‘army’ of followers they say “is growing”, reports No Echo.

The hardcore group is headed by vocalist Anthony Mehlhaff, who says he turned his life around to serve punk rock in the name of faith.

While their ensemble falls under many definitions, Mehlhaff says they ultimately “portray the imperfect vessel to wage a holy war against those who wish to profit from a dying prophet’s words.”

On their Instagram page, the band posted a picture announcing Thursday night’s show, writing: “Take the Friday off and have a truly religious experience in the city where dreams are crushed, watch bones break and souls get f***ing saved.”

They then appeared as part of an event at the California bar, offering stomach-churning bloodbath baptisms and wrestling matches.

Many participated in the distressing scenes, which saw the no-ring pro wresting game be one of the more popular events. During, people horrifyingly chanted “we want blood!”.

And at one point “Happy Birthday” was even sung at the bar.

Two other musical acts also performed alongside the bizarre event.

Following the event, Cancer Christ posted an array of horrifying pictures taken at the event, portraying the musicians “saving souls and performing miracles.”

They added that the event “was nuts and beautiful and insanely historic!” and thanked their “newest Church member for the biblical moments”.

The Instagram post went on to outline the events that went down at the bar, saying: “The reptilian-christian-violence-hardcore band, hosted a night of no-ring death matches, baptisms, flamethrowers, and unholy breakdowns.”

In an interview last year, vocalist Mehlhaff called himself “a humble servant of God,” adding: “I stand for all the would-be scum that never considered Jesus an option”.

Cancer Christ is a well-known band in the Los Angeles, California, area – with many fans regularly attending their gigs.

Their social media posts show a variety of bizarre happenings at their concerts, from people dressing up as lizards to waving flags and banners around that say ‘Satan is a b***h’.

One terrifying video on Instagram even shows a huge fire burning in the middle of their concert, with people running around it. As chaos ensues, the video cuts to people head-banging and then a close up shot of a man completely covered in blood.