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CORROSION OF CONFORMITY (C.O.C.)
1984 - Eye For An Eye.
1994 - Deliverance.
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May 1984 - 2024: 40 years of: Eye For An Eye.

Hardcore just got harder.

The other side of the East-Coast ...not from the Tri-State or D.C. Area, but true hardcorepunk from Raleigh, North Carolina. Aside from the era's arena-metal takeover, this rebellion is from the stinkin' underground, it's all around you, it's all around us, from the West to the East ...it's a CORROSION OF CONFORMITY.

Blasting doors and associated eardrums, hey "Tell Me" this "Poison Planet" ain't controlled by "Rabid Dogs" "Rednekkk". Short and fast, brutal and sweet, this "Not Safe" "Broken Will" is a violent pacification. This pungent erosion is real, it's "Indifferent" aggressive-rock doesn't "Coexist" with hate. Their career-long fight has just begun, the rules are simple: "Eye For An Eye".

Two outlooks are available for maximum destructive effect: original mix with singer Eric Eycke and re-recorded selections with singer / bassist Mike Dean.

Mixing both shades of blacks, from BLACK SABBATH to BLACK FLAG, this social corrosion would bloom into crossover-thrash with 1985's Animosity LP.

RIP Reed Mullin (1966-2020)

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Eye For An Eye = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fosXwmq9r0c&list=OLAK5uy_nT20cNXJB29ucBqTKvHPQwYaOaJSHJTG0
Live in Virginia in 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1COX7d3M8
Interview in 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6gWIoW1_n0

September 26, 1994 - 2024: 30 years of: Deliverance.

From punk to stoner.

By 1991's Blind CD, the crossover was fully complete ...and now the tone would get fatter. Incorporating more 70s vibe, the once hardcore-speed of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY ...becomes a stonermetal icon.

The divine grooves of "Heaven's Not Overflowing" warms the hall, as well as, on the massive monster stomp title-track for "Deliverance". Hail the sludge.

Hot rockin' with the "Señor Limpio", the grit of "Shake Like You" and the faster-paced "My Grain". Both cool-singles for the doomy "Albatross" and rock-riffed "Clean My Wounds" did get Headbanger's Ball-rotation, just enough to propel RIAA-certified Gold units.

Now a four-piece, with a returned Mike Dean on bass and Pepper Keenan doing double-duty on vocals and guitars, this corrosive band had found it's ways. Southern vibed, metal cool and pushing the new stoner / sludge metal signature ...CORROSION OF CONFORMITY was in the zone.

Now inked to major-label Columbia Records and taking part in the humongous BLACK SABBATH tribute, along MEGADETH, BIOHAZARD and WHITE ZOMBIE ...CORROSION OF CONFORMITY was in the zone.

Beavis & Butt-Head approved, this generation would receive more heavy riffs with 1996's Wiseblood CD.

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Albatross = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPicUnsPPg
Clean My Wounds = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvsQsao1F88
Deliverance = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSm1zWEF-9w&list=OLAK5uy_nzzshzswRz1IIGTyy0kNfZ1X7a3tlH0qU
MTV interview in Glasgow in 1994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us8P0CKPsT8
Live in Copenhagen in 1994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_An2x7DEU
Beavis And Butt-Head does...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-s5hSGp9Bc

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