Underrated: Corrosion of Conformity

Rockist - what do these fans look like? A cross between Duane Allman and Randy Weaver? yeah that's been my experience too. hahahaha

Alex - yes, "Clean My Wounds" is CLASSIC all the way

"Beaches", "Prince of Tides", "Steel Magnolias"

my high school band used to open for them when they played all ages hardcore shows in the basement of a churrch in durham, so naturally i like they're early hardcore stuff. it's actually pretty complicated, multi-timesignature stuff that doesn't sound completely unlike reign in blood-era slayer

albatross is heavy metal, no fucking w/it

I remember them from ages ago. Reflection reveals they really had an incredibly stupid name.

I feel like listening to these guys again for the 1st time in like 12 years

I saw COC supporting Metallica at the Glasgow Barrowland in 1996. Pepper Keenan was trying to whip the crowd up but most weren't interested apart from the front few rows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efJ42PRgwow

COC/Prong at Katina's 1991, good times

Thoughts on the new self-titled?

Only 3/4ths of the way through my first listen and it sounds alright to me, but I've not really listened to these guys since Deliverance.

v diff band imo

Well, yeah, pretty different without Pepper but I don't really like think they're awful now.

preferred pre pepper stuff anyway!

^^

I heard the new record yesterday and enjoyed the listen. If nothing else, it got me interested in staying for their set on the upcoming tour.

preferred pre pepper stuff anyway!

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, February 24, 2012 1:29 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, ridiculous.

you sure are bill! but please dont change!

new albums pretty good

They were surprisingly great live. Vocals were nothing to write home about, but trio was tight as hell and the crowd ate it up. Played stuff from their whole catalog, as far as I could tell. Hearing "Mad World" was awesome.

"Animosity" is such a total stone cold classic album, I'm so bummed I missed the reformed Animosity lineup show at Deathfest last year . . . argh. "Holier" is my jam

yessss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyuln0m4_rM

so good.

I had literally never heard a single note by this band, but I found Animosity today used on vinyl and decided to give it a whirl. Listening to it now... Solid stuff! Now I have to go see if it was in that '80s hard rock poll that just concluded (I can't remember); it belongs there!

for some reason I had no idea the 2012 album was a reunion of the original trio and that they went to decidedly non-commercial territory with it. it's weird tho - like it def doesn't sound like Animosity era except for a few tracks but the stoner/sludge element is fucking killer. on first listen I pretty much loved it and put the new one on order.

nothing against Pepper era stuff but I don't come back to it much anymore these days. Blind is great tho.

Nah the Pepper stuff is goid. First half of Wise Blood is all time, but there's decent songs across all four of his albums

Pepper rules. Deliverance is such a fucking good album. If "chuck" above can't hear the southern in that alb I feel bad for him, he's not using the right q-tip strength when he cleans his ears.

Or else he's not familiar with the south.

shit forgot to remove the magnets from this thread

the album 2 years ago was really good

I re-ordered Animosity as I lost my original copy.

I think Amazon doesn't want me to get it. my first order, they send me a Nat King Cole cd instead of Animosity. the replacement order gets lost - they insist UPS has it, but it is still in 'ready to ship' status, which means they don't.

oh well. I did manage to pick up Technocracy and Eye for an Eye, which I like, the latter I like more cos it's punkier.

new ones kinda like the last one. not a bad thing IMO

the band is hot shit, the vocalist is pretty underwhelming tho

Mike's functional, doesn't really get too much in the way. doesn't draw your attention like Pepper, but the music does enough of that

I really like this one better than the s/t 'reboot'. I felt like the last one felt like a bunch of long-time bandmates reinventing themselves and still kind of figuring things out. there were lots of odds and ends and weird breaks, but it was sometimes a bit messy.

I feel like the production and songcraft on this one are much improved, and Mike's voice sounds better. there also seems to be a lot more groove here.

"Vote With A Bullet" has been making a lot of sense to me this year.
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, March 2, 2004 10:22 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

finally got around to In the Arms of God

"It's That Way" is so fuckin' heavy but has some nice 70's FMisms about it too with the central hook

Yeah I stalled for a long time on COC albums after Deliverance but that's a good one.

Deliverance is great, also, I just kind of lost track of what they were doing for a while.

They were good fun when I saw 'em this month - never a huge fan, but they brought the volume and 'tude. I was there to see Crowbar and they were a delight to see live.

Ton of posts on social media indicating that Reed Mullin has passed.

I confirmed it with one of Reed's old friends. Huge bummer.

Awww

jesus, brutal year with drummers and it's not even February

fuck

Ah shit. What a fantastic drummer.

Listened to *Blind* for the first time in ages today. It's so good. Reed Mullins's shifting rhythms are what stood out to me today. What an extraordinary drummer (moar cowbell). I like *Deliverance* well enough but they lost something in the departure of Karl Agell, if only that elemental rage. I was on a train, and those cries of 'BURN' in 'Great Purification' and the spoken word section at the end of 'White Noise', made me want to do the whole 'are you *hearing* this shit?' to the people around me but I could only find a few old ladies and a group of kids, so I thought better of it.

When innocents cried in the face of the guilty
NO ONE SAID ANYTHING

Fuck yeah.

their music also got way less political after that album. well, pretty much got apolitical. granted, you can't really attribute that to Karl leaving as the same core that played on their earlier political crossover were still there, so I feel like Pepper's increasing influence had more to do with it.

"Dance of the Dead" was one of my favorite songs in high school, after hearing it on Beavis and Butthead I asked for the cd for my birthday.

they still do "Vote with a Bullet" and I saw them do it months after Trump was inaugurated, and Pepper joked "sometimes a song comes full fuckin' circle, right?" before launching into it

Yeah, Pepper seemed to be in charge of the new direction. No judgement but some of the urgency faded. Great track and all but "Vote with a Bullet" stands out on *Blind* as being pretty performative in a way the rest of the album simply isn't.

I saw them a few times in the early 90s and holy shit. They're coming to the UK soon, I think, but it's too far away and I'm lazy.

kinda wish I'd seen em during that brief period when Pepper had left and they were recording very differential material with the three piece and doing old COC songs live

*different

it's kinda weird that they dont' even throw any bones w/ the old stuff cos like other than Reed (RIP), they still have two thirds of the Animosity lineup. I guess Pepper would throw a fit if he didn't get to sing on a song though. and trying to keep the sound consistent for setlist

Reed Mullins's shifting rhythms are what stood out to me today. What an extraordinary drummer (moar cowbell).

RIP, as I just learned. :( I loved the drumming on "Senior Limpio".

Great track!

I was opened mouthed at his drumming on White Noise today. I like him because it's virtuosic but still sounds rough as hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyzoASr3wRc

And aye Neanderthal. I'm guessing Keenan has a pretty tight grip on things with regards to what they do and don't play.

The thing about Blind is it gets shoved into genre slots (I've seen it referred to as stoner rock, southern metal, sludge or alt metal) and to me it's one of the few 90s albums that is just genuinely a good hard rock record in a 70s sense, without being beholden to cliches from that decade?

There was so much potential with that lineup and I'll always wonder what a followup to Blind would've sounded like

yeah, the stoner/southern elements are there, but they're more background shading. "Dance of the Dead", for instance, has none of it - it feels like a traditional heavy metal track. "Damned for All Time" feels like groove/thrash. it's kind of over the map.

even "Vote with a Bullet" doesn't really feel like a precursor to Deliverance despite Pepper being on vocals.

I'm going to make it a mission to see if I can find live Blind-era recordings anywhere

In a closet somewhere in California there is a VHS tape of my high school band covering Damned For All Time during a lunchtime concert at my school.

damn! nice

CoC probably did it better lol

IIrr, at the time it felt like there was a whole 'Trouble are amazing!' narrative surrounding the Black album and which *Blind* kind of got swallowed up in.

Trouble didn't really seem to gain anything from it and then Rubin got involved and changed their sound anyway. Metallica conquered the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xABX0R4D1r0

(COC, "Man or Ash")

not only is this song great, but for whatever reason, Hetfield gives guest vocals that are 3000% better than any of his vocals on Load that same year.

Damn, that is really good. Wiseblood is the only one I don't have from that run of Pepper albums, guess I'll have to check it out.

that one leans less into the "70s FM" side of Deliverance, many of the tracks are a lot fucking heavier, though they do still have quite a few of those hooky songs like "King of the Rotten" and "Drowning in a Daydream" but "Bottom Feeder", the instrumental, daaaamn.

Prison for praise - the obvious answer
Once had power mad - living disaster
Don't fuck with me 'cos I'm on a freedom train
That bears no name - this time
I'm voting with a bullet