Corrosion of Conformity

[Styles]

This is one of those bands I've always heard about but never actually heard, until hearing a couple songs ("Zippo" and "Albatross") and both in voice and style they remind me a lot of late 90s Metallica (I'm a huge Metallica fan and have love for all their album, I've heard it all so just save it).

So, is anyone into this band? Furthermore any reccomendation of which cd to start with?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I'd take a pass, personally. Down features Pepper Keenan from CoC on guitar, and it's better than anything Corrosion ever did. That's not why I don't care for CoC, though. They get real samey, real fast.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye]

and both in voice and style they remind me a lot of late 90s Metallica (I'm a huge Metallica fan and have love for all their album, I've heard it all so just save it).

 

hold you horses there champo. Where do you get the similiarities of (per your example) Albatross and any Metallica songs other than the fact that they are both hard rock/metal? Per your Albatross example some more, The vocals are entirely different beasts. Pepper Keenan going with a southern comfort crusted with cigarettes and thc melodic talking, while Hetfield goes with a solid singing voice that he never really stretches.

 

Upon further reflection, I'm not going to compare all the individual parts and players because I get the feeling that you are almost comparing them based on the fact that they both have some f(ph)at guitar riffs and are rooted in the non extreme lands of metal.

 

As for Corrosion recommends, Wiseblood is one I didn't hate...the album with Albatross on it I don't remember but I *heart heart heart* the album with all my heart.

 

If you enjoy Corrosion Of Conformity I'm sure myself or Agent can take your hand and lead you down the NOLA path that is so oft and lovingly discussed amongst the TSM metal circle

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

^Yeah, pretty much, only I don't particularly care for a whole album of their stuff.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye]

Deliverance! Can't believe I had forgotten the name of it.

 

And it was one of the first metal albums I even owned so I have a bit of a bias I suppose.

[PLAGIARISM!]

Same for me with 'Wiseblood'. I think that album's still pretty good, and I like them overall.

[Styles]

and both in voice and style they remind me a lot of late 90s Metallica (I'm a huge Metallica fan and have love for all their album, I've heard it all so just save it).

 

hold you horses there champo. Where do you get the similiarities of (per your example) Albatross and any Metallica songs other than the fact that they are both hard rock/metal?

Actually it would be more the first one, that had a very "Load"ish type of chuggish blues sound to it, and Pepper's voice and inflections remind me a lot of Hetfields. Just personal observation I guess?

 

Oh, and I know NWOBHM, but what is NOLA?

[Henry Spencer]

NOLA is the debut album by Down.

[Corey_Lazarus]

New Orleans, Louisiana. "Swamp metal." The music is usually focused on bluesy riffs, somewhat similar to stoner rock in the sense that it's heavily based in blues, but a lot more clean than stoner rock, and usually not as fast.

 

The only CoC album I have is BLiND, and only a handful of the tracks are really worth listening to. I think it was released between when they stopped being a straight-up metal band and started going the bluesy route. "Vote With A Bullet" is good shit, though.

[Steviekick]

You'd propably like Crowbar, too.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

That whole scene is inbred as hell.

 

Crowbar, Acid Bath, Down, CoC, EyeHateGod, Agents..

 

I bet any band you name from that region in the 90's had members from another band down there. It's like the whole Seattle sub-pop hype creature in that regard.

[B. Brian Brunzell]

Blind was the album relesed before Pepper Keenan took over full-time vocal duties and transformed the band into the Southern metal group that I know and love. There are a few good tracks, like "Vote with a Bullet" and "Dance of the Dead" I'd recommend stuff from Deliverance and Wiseblood, especially Wiseblood. The title track is good, as are "King of the Rotten", "Long Whip, Big America", "Goodbye Window" and ESPECIALLY "Redemption City."

[Steviekick]

That whole scene is inbred as hell.

 

Crowbar, Acid Bath, Down, CoC, EyeHateGod, Agents..

 

I bet any band you name from that region in the 90's had members from another band down there. It's like the whole Seattle sub-pop hype creature in that regard.

For some reason, I really like scenes that are like that. It's also more fun to talk about bands that are interconnected....you get to sound real smart.

[Guest OldSchoolCarnage]

That whole scene is inbred as hell.

 

Crowbar, Acid Bath, Down, CoC, EyeHateGod, Agents..

 

I bet any band you name from that region in the 90's had members from another band down there. It's like the whole Seattle sub-pop hype creature in that regard.

You forgot Goatwhore and Soilent Green COC are an aquired taste I guess you could say. I'd reccomend Deliverance before the other albums...Wiseblood is good too, but America's Volume Dealer is a little too redneck to me.

[Steviekick]

I like Soilent Green, but I really have to be in the mood to listen to them. They are on a few compilations that I have, but I don't necessarily feel that I should buy a full length of their's.