Corrosion of Conformity (also known as C.O.C.) is an American heavy metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina formed in 1982. For almost the majority of its existence, the band has consisted of guitarist Woody Weatherman, bassist Mike Dean, drummer Reed Mullin and vocalist and rhythm guitarist Pepper Keenan (who joined the band in 1989). After a hiatus in 2006, Corrosion of Conformity returned in 2010, without Keenan who is currently in Down (although it has been disputed whether or not Keenan has left the band).
To date, Corrosion of Conformity has released seven studio albums, two EPs, one compilation, and one live album. The band had three independent releases, Eye for an Eye (1984), Animosity (1985) and Blind (1991). The albums attracted the attention of Columbia Records, who signed the band in 1993, and released Deliverance, their most successful album to date, one year later. Their next three albums, Wiseblood (1996), America's Volume Dealer (2000) and In the Arms of God (2005) were also critically acclaimed. Corrosion of Conformity is currently working on an eighth studio album, which is due for release in 2011.
Contents
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* 1 History
o 1.1 Early years (1982–1987)
o 1.2 Departure of Mike Dean, hiatus and Blind (1987-1992)
o 1.3 Deliverance and Wiseblood (1993-1998)
o 1.4 America's Volume Dealer and In the Arms of God (1999-2006)
o 1.5 Second hiatus (2006-2010)
o 1.6 Animosity lineup reunion (2010-present)
* 2 Collaborations/side projects
* 3 Band members
o 3.1 Former members
o 3.2 Collaborators
o 3.3 Timeline
* 4 Discography
o 4.1 Studio albums
o 4.2 Live albums
o 4.3 EPs
o 4.4 Compilations
o 4.5 Music videos
* 5 References
* 6 External links
[edit] History
[edit] Early years (1982–1987)
Corrosion of Conformity (C.O.C.) was formed in Raleigh, North Carolina by bassist and vocalist Mike Dean, guitarist Woody Weatherman and drummer Reed Mullin in the early '80s.[4] Their hardcore punk-oriented 20-track debut Eye for an Eye—the only album featuring the vocalist Eric Eycke—was released in 1984 (later re-released by Caroline Records during 1989).[5] Soon after, Eycke left the band and C.O.C. continued as a three-piece with Dean and Mullin sharing the vocal duties on the 1985's follow-up Animosity.[4] In 1987, COC recruited Simon Bob Sinister away from their fellow Carolina band and Death Records labelmates Ugly Americans. The band's 1987 release, Technocracy, featured the hectic thrash musicianship of COC with a cleaner vocal style than they had in the past.
[edit] Departure of Mike Dean, hiatus and Blind (1987-1992)
Mike Dean departed in 1987 and Simon Bob soon followed, leaving COC in a state of flux for a couple of years. The remaining members re-tuned the line up and searched for a new vocalist, even posting a classified in Flipside Fanzine for a singer similar in sound to "James Hetfield or Ozzy Osbourne" to go with their new metal sound. Caroline Records released some old tracks with Mike singing during this time with the aptly named Six Songs With Mike Singing EP.
Mike Dean also participated in Snake Nation.
After much searching, Karl Agell was recruited on vocals, Phil Swisher on bass and Pepper Keenan as a second guitarist. COC gravitated towards a more straightforward heavy metal sound. By 1991's Blind they had become a heavy metal band. Blind was the first COC album to receive mainstream attention. The video for "Vote With A Bullet" received airplay on MTV and the album cracked the Billboard Heatseekers chart in early 1992. The album has sold around 250,000 copies in the US to date.
[edit] Deliverance and Wiseblood (1993-1998)
In 1993, Agell and Swisher left the band and formed the band Leadfoot, Dean returned and Keenan took over lead vocals. The following year COC signed to Columbia Records, and the release of Deliverance saw the band move toward Southern metal, a sound that they also carried onto the Wiseblood and America's Volume Dealer albums. In 1994, their song Big Problems was featured on the Clerks soundtrack. The song Clean My Wounds was also featured in the anime movie Tekken: The Motion Picture.
Deliverance was the band's biggest selling album. This was mainly due to the singles "Albatross" and "Clean My Wounds" becoming Top 20 hits on rock radio and the album managed to spend almost 4 months on the Billboard Top 200, peaking at No.155. On the Heatseekers chart, it peaked at No.5 and lasted almost a year on that particular chart. US sales for the album were just over 440,000 by the end of 2005 and this album should be eligible for Gold status within the next few years.
Wiseblood was released in October 1996. Despite producing a Top 30 radio hit with "Drowning In A Daydream" and a worldwide tour with Metallica, the album failed to match the sales set by the previous album. Total US sales to date are just over 150,000. COC was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award in the "Best Metal Performance" category for the song "Drowning in a Daydream".
[edit] America's Volume Dealer and In the Arms of God (1999-2006)
Pepper Keenan live on stage
Soon after the release of Wiseblood, Columbia dropped COC, who then moved to Sanctuary Records. The band released its first album for its new label, America's Volume Dealer, in November 2000. The album was even more of a commercial failure than Wiseblood not even managing to make the Billboard Top 200. However, the single, "Congratulations Song", did give the band another Top 30 hit. No videos were made from the album. Mullin left the band in 2001. Since then the band has worked with a series of drummers: Jimmy Bower of Eyehategod, local Raleigh percussion professor Merritt Partridge, Stanton Moore of Galactic and Reed's former drum technician Jason Patterson, who previously played drums in the Raleigh-based rock band Cry of Love.
In April 2005, COC released In the Arms of God to much critical acclaim. The album performed much better than their previous effort, debuting at No.108 on the Billboard Top 200 and even topping the Heatseekers chart. This was achieved without even one radio hit from the album. A video was made for the song "Stonebreaker" which saw airplay on MTV2's recently revived Headbanger's Ball. The band spent the rest of the year touring the US and Canada. They were the opening acts for Motörhead and Disturbed and also went on headlining tours with Crowbar, Fu Manchu, Alabama Thunderpussy and Danko Jones all providing support. A European tour was scheduled for September/October 2005 but was later cancelled, after Hurricane Katrina ravaged Keenan's adopted hometown of New Orleans. A co-headlining UK tour with Clutch commenced in January 2006.
[edit] Second hiatus (2006-2010)
Corrosion of Conformity was on hiatus from 2006 to June 2010, while Pepper recorded and toured with Down. From March 2009 to June 2010, Karl Agell and Reed Mullin occasionally performed with Jerry Barrett, Scott Little, and Jason Browning (Browning eventually replaced by TR Gwynne) as "COC-Blind", playing the Blind album. Reed Mullin and Mike Dean along with Jason Browning are also touring in a new band called "Righteous Fool", and have released a self-titled EP on Southern Lord Records.
[edit] Animosity lineup reunion (2010-present)
On May 12, 2010, Blabbermouth.net reported that the Animosity lineup of Corrosion of Conformity was reuniting and working on a new album. They are planning some early-August shows lined up for the West Coast, although they have not yet been officially announced.[6] The band is still open to recording again as a four piece with Pepper when the time is right, according to a message on the official C.O.C. website on 15 May 2010.[7] Pepper currently, has not left the band.[8]
[edit] Collaborations/side projects
They have also collaborated with a number of other artists: James Hetfield of Metallica contributed vocals to the song "Man or Ash" on Wiseblood; Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers' Band and Gov't Mule played slide guitar on "Stare Too Long" on America's Volume Dealer; and Stanton Moore of Galactic played drums on In The Arms of God.
Members of COC have also participated in collaborations: Keenan plays guitar with the metal supergroup Down, and Dean contributed vocals to a track titled "Access Babylon" on Dave Grohl's Probot project. Also Pepper is on Metallica's Garage Inc CD playing guitar and singing the second verse of the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Tuesday's Gone", he is also in the documentary "Some Kind of Monster" auditioning to be Metallica's replacement for Jason Newsted.
[edit] Band members
* Woody Weatherman – lead guitar, backing vocals (1982–present)
* Mike Dean – bass, vocals (1982–1987, 1993–present)
* Reed Mullin – drums, percussion (1982–2001, 2010–present)
* Pepper Keenan – vocals, rhythm guitar (1989–present)[3]
[edit] Former members
* Garrick Francis – lead vocals (1982)
* Benji Shelton – lead vocals (1982–1983)
* Eric Eycke – lead vocals (1983–1984)
* Simon Bob Sinister – lead vocals (1986–1989)
* Phil Swisher – bass (1987–1993)
* Karl Agell – lead vocals (1989–1993)
* Jimmy Bower – drums, percussion (2001–2002)
* Merrit Partridge – drums, percussion (2002–2003)
* Stanton Moore – drums, percussion (2003–2005)
* Jason Patterson – drums, percussion (2005–2006)
[edit] Collaborators
* Warren Haynes – slide guitar ("Stare Too Long," America's Volume Dealer)
* James Hetfield – vocals ("Man or Ash," Wiseblood)
* Robert Stewart – vocals (performed live, never recorded)
* John Custer – producer of Blind, Deliverance, Wiseblood, Nativity In Black, America's Volume Dealer and In The Arms Of God
***Discography***
* Eye For An Eye (1983)
* Animosity (1985)
* Blind (1991)
* Deliverance (1994)
* Wiseblood (1996)
* American's Volume Dealer (2000)
* In the Arms of God (2005)
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COC comienza tocando hardcore punk en 1982 en Raleigh, Carolina del Norte, con Reed Mullin a la batería, Woody Watherman en la guitarra, Mike Dean en el bajo y Benji Shelton con la voz. COC eran los pioneros del género crossover thrash en los 80'.
Ellos destacaron con No Core como compilación principal e hicieron su estreno en 1983 en el Why Are We Here? 7 " la compilación con otras bandas de Carolina del Norte como Blood Mobile, Stillborn Christians y No Labels.
Benji pronto se marchó y fue substituido por Eric Eycke del LP Eye for an Eye en 1984. Mientras todavía tocaban un hardcore punk notable, este era el primer material de la banda andetrándose en el heavy metal y ellos comenzaron a tocar con grandes bandas como Slayer.
Poco después, Eric dejó la banda y COC continúan con su tercera pieza con Miguel y Reed compartiendo la voz en 1986 con el LP Animosity, considerado como unos de los clásicos en el "Crossover". Animosity consiguió críticas muy favorables en el punk y el heavy metal y fans a través del globo.
En 1987, COC reclutó a Simon Bob Sinister de la banda de Carolina e integrantes de la firma Death Records, Ugly Americans. el lanzamiento banda en 1987, Technocracy figuró el agitado mundo del thrash musical de COC con un con una voz limpia que ellos tenían en el pasado.
Mike Dean se marchó en 1987 y Simon Bob pronto lo sigue, abandonando a COC en un estado de flujo durante un par de años. Los miembros restantes rediseñaron la alineación y buscaron a un nuevo cantante, aún fijando su secreto a la revista Flipside que tendrán un cantante similar a "James Hetfield o Ozzy Osbourne" para seguir con su nuevo sonido. Caroline Records liberó algunas viejas canciones con Mike que cantaba en ese entonces y es sacado como EP titulado Six Songs With Mike Singing.
Después de tanto buscar, Karl Agell fue reclutado para la voz, Phil Swisher para el bajo y Pepper Keenan como segundo guitarrista. COC gravitó hacia un sonido de heavy metal más específico. Para 1991 lanzaron Blind y ya se formarían como una banda de heavy metal. Blind era el primer álbum de COC para recibir la atención requerida. El vídeo para "Vote With A Bullet" se lanzó en MTV y el álbum rajó en la Lista Billboard a principios de 1992. El álbum ha vendido alrededor de 250,000 copias en EEUU hasta el momento.
En 1993, Agell y Swisher dejan la banda para formar la banda Leadfoot, Dean vuelve y Keenan asumió la voz líder. El año siguiente COC firman con Columbia Records, y el lanzamiento de Deliverance vive el movimiento de la banda en el metal sureño, un sonido que ellos también llevaron a Wiseblood y a American's Volume Dealer.
Deliverance es el álbum que más ha vendido la banda. Esto era debido a los sencillos "Albatross" y "Clean My Wounds" con la acción de hacerse en los 20 Primeros de la radio rock y el álbum logró pasar casi 4 meses en los Billboard de 200, alcanzando su punto máximo en el número 155. Sobre la cartelera Heatseekers, alcanzaron su punto máximo en el No 5 y duró casi un año sobre aquella cartelera en particular. Ventas estadounidenses para el álbum eran un poco más 440,000 hacia el final de 2005 y este álbum debería ser eligible para alcanzar el disco de oro dentro de los próximos pocos años.
Wiseblood fue liberado en octubre de 1996. A pesar alcanzar el top 30 de la radio rockera con "Drowning In A Day Dream" y una gira mundial con Metallica, el álbum no logró igualar las ventas puestas por el álbum anterior. Ventas totales estadounidenses hasta el momento son un poco más 150,000. COC fue nominado a los Grammy en 1998 en la categoría "Best Metal Performance" con la canción "Drowning in a Day Dream".
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Poco después del lanzamiento de Wiseblood, Columbia le retiró el contrato a COC, y entonces se movieron a Sanctuary Records. La banda lanzó su primer álbum con la nueva disquera, American's Volume Dealer, en noviembre de 2000. El álbum era otro fracaso comercial que Wiseblood pero aún logra hacerse con el top 200 de Billboard. Sin embargo, el sencillo, "Congratulations Song", realmente hizo a la banda colarse otra vez en el top 30. No hicieron vídeos de éste álbum. Mullin dejó la banda en 2001. Desde entonces la banda ha trabajado con una serie de bateristas: Jimmy Bower de Eyehategod, el profesor de percusión de Raleigh Merritt Partridge, Stanton Moore de Galactic y el antiguo técnico de Reed, Jason Patterson que antes tocó en la banda de Raleigh Cry of Love.
En abril de 2005, COC lanza In The Arms of Gods con muchas críticas. la banda realiza con este álbum un esfuerzo mucho mejor que el anterior, debutando en el No 108 sobre los Billboards 200 y encabezando la lista Heatseekers. El álbum también alcanzó un golpe similar en la radio. Un vídeo fue hecho para la canción "Stonebreaker" que fue transmitido en MTV2 en el programa recientemete reanimado Headbanger's Ball. La banda pasó el resto del año viajando por EEUU y Canadá. Ellos eran los que teloneaban a Motörhead y a Disturbed y también continuaron haciendo viajes con Crowbar, Fu Manchu, Alabama Thunderpussy y Danko Jones con todo la ayuda posible. Un viaje europeo fue programado para septiembre y octubre de 2005, pero más tarde fue cancelado, después de que el Huracán Katrina detruyeran a la ciudad de Nueva Orleans (casi era la ciudad natal de Keenan). Después de esto, continuaron con un viaje a Inglaterra con Clutch a comienzos de enero de 2006.
En años recientes COC ha mezclado los elementos de stoner rock con su sonido metálico. Con ellos también han colaborado un número de artistas: James Hetfield de Metallica contribuyó la voz a la canción "Man or Ash" en Wiseblood; Warren Haynes de Allman Brothers' Band y Gov't Mule tocando la guitarra en "Stare Too Long" del disco America's Volume Dealer; y Stanton Moore de Galactic tocando la batería en In the Arms of God.
[editar] Integrantes
* Mike Dean - Bajo, voces (Snake Nation)
* Pepper Keenan - voces, guitarra (Down, Graveyard Rodeo)
* Woody Weatherman - guitarra, voces (Snake Nation)
* Jason Paterson - batería
[editar] Miembros anteriores
Vocalistas:
* Garrick Francis (1982)
* Benji Shelton (1982 - 1983)
* Eric Eycke (1983)
* Robert Taylor
* Simon Bob Sinister (1986 - 1990)
* Karl Agell (1991)
Bateristas:
* Reed Mullin (1983-2001)
* Jimmy Bower (2001-2002)
* Merrit Partridge (2002 - 2003)
* Stanton Moore - (2005)
Bajistas:
* Phil Swisher - (1987)
[editar] Discografía
[editar] Álbumes
* Eye For An Eye (1983)
* Animosity (1985)
* Blind (1991)
* Deliverance (1994)
* Wiseblood (1996)
* American's Volume Dealer (2000)
* In the Arms of God (2005)
[editar] EP's
* Technocracy (1987)
* Six Songs with Mike Singing (1988)
* Mad World (1992)
* Vote With a Bullet - The Consolidated Re-mix Version (1993)
[editar] Compilaciones
* No Core tape (1982, No Core)
* Why Are We Here? 7" (1983, No Core Records, "Poison Planet", "Indifferent", "Too Cool")
* Empty Skulls tape (1984, Fartblossom Enterpises, "Poison Planet", "Eye for an Eye")
* Cleanse the Bacteria LP (1985, Pusmort Records, "Kiss of Death")
* Thrasher Skate Rock Vol. 3 LP (1986, Thrasher/High Speed Records, "What", "Not For Me", "Citizen")
* Empty Skulls Vol. 2 LP (1986, Fartblossom Records, "Center of the World", "Eye for an Eye", "Negative Outlook")
* Complete Death LP (1986, Death Records, "Loss for Words")
* Life is a Joke Vol. 2 LP (1986, Weird System Records, "Eye for an Eye")
* Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Vol. 3 LP (1987, Gasatanka Records, "Intervention")
* Rat Music for Rat People 3 LP (1987, CD Presents Records, "Bound")
* "Clerks" Soundtrack LP (1994, Columbia Records, "Big Problems")
* Nativity In Black: A Tribute To Black Sabbath LP (1994, Columbia Records, "Lord of This World")
* UMPF LP (1995, ???, "Clean My Wounds")
* Duke Nukem: Music To Score By LP (1999, RED Interactive, "Land Of The Free Disease")
* Xtreme Rock: Music That Changed Our Lives LP (1999, RED Distribution, "Land Of The Free Disease")
* Motorcycle Mania 3 CD (2004, Artist Direct BMG, "Thirteen Angels")
[editar] Videos Musicales
* "Vote with a Bullet" (1992)
* "Dance of the Dead" (1992)
* "Albatross" (1994)
* "Clean My Wounds" (1994)
* "Wiseblood" (1996)
* "Drowning in a Daydream" (1996)
* "Stonebreaker" (2005)
[editar] Sencillos
* Dance Of The Dead (1991)
* Vote With a Bullet (1992)
* Albatross (1994)
* Broken Man (1994)
* Clean My Wounds (1994)
* Seven Days (1995)
* Drowning in a Daydream (1996)
* King Of The Rotten (1996)
* Pighead Shaped Picture Disc (1996)
* The Rotten Remixes 12" (1997)
* Congratulations Song (2000)
* Over Me (2000)
* Diablo Blvd. (2001)
* Stonebreaker (2005)
[editar] Referencias
* Página Oficial
* Discográfica
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