Good Tuesday morning, everyone. I hope that you all are staying warm as you start your day. Yesterday in Reel Reviews, we brought you a look at the new live dvd and blu-ray from Carlos Santana and company. Today, we focus on another very well known band. Today, we take a look at the eighth full length studio release from the pride of Raleigh, North Carolina, Corrosion of Conformity. The band's new self-titled release is due in stores next week. It's the focus of today's edition of Reel Reviews.
Raleigh, North Carolina is typically associated with college basketball, cultural arts, and being the seat of the state's government. But what a lot of people probably don't know is that it's also the home of a world renowned hard rock band. That band is question is Corrosion of Conformity. Corrosion of Conformity formed in 1982. Now three decades since it first started making music, COC is still rocking as hard as ever as it prepares to release its eighth full length studio album.
The last time that anyone heard from Corrosion of Conformity was seven years ago on 2005's "In The Arms of God". In the time since that release, the band's frontman Pepper Keenan joined up with former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo in another band, Down. So fans were left waiting and wondering about the fate of Corrosion of Conformity. Enter Candlelight Records. The band--now comprised of original members Mike Dean (bass/vocals), Reed Mullin (drums), and Woody Weatherman (guitar)--recently signed with the hard rock label, and will be releasing its new self-titled record via the label next week. And for fans of classic COC, the band's new album is a great return to form.
The album's first trio of songs make up a solid mix of its classic punk and hard rock sound that'll get fans both old and new alike going. Those three tracks are followed up with a little breather in the instrumental 'El Lamento de las Cabras. Roughly translated, that means 'The Moan of the Goats'. That little break is about the only breather that the band offers on its new album. From there on out, the band kicks the adrenaline right back into overdrive, starting with the seemingly Iron Maiden-esque 'Your Tomorrow'. Whether it's the hard rock of 'The Doom' or the classic punk 'The Moneychangers', or any of the album's other songs, "Corrosion of Conformity" offers something for all of its fans right to the last fading moments of 'Time of Trials'.
Fans who want to check out the band live are going to get plenty of chance, as it'll be going out on tour in March to support the album. The tour is being sponsored by Revolver magazine. The band hasn't left out fans in its homebase of Raleigh, either. Among those tour stops is a date at the Lincoln Theater in Raleigh, March 3rd. For more dates, fans can check out the band's main website, http://www.coc.com, or head over to Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/corrosionofconformity.
Eight albums in thirty years doesn't seem like much. Other bands have released far more material in that span of time (E.g. Rush, etc.). But as the old adage states, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Before this seven year dry spell, the longest the band went between albums was six years. That span was between the band's landmark 1985 album, "Animosity" and its 1991 release, "Blind". Both of those albums were impressive in their own right. Now with the end of its longest dry spell in sight, COC is set to offer fans what is not just its best album since "Animosity", but one of its best records of its catalogue and one of the best new albums of 2012.
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Philip Sayblack can be contact at psayblack@wnct.com
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