Corrosion Of Conformity has been rocking the house down for over 20 years now. That's incredible! If you don't know already, they've gone from selling blood and hair to record their first album to scoring a major label deal in the mid-90's. In the days when Punk and Metal were two genres at odds, COC became the forerunner in fusing the styles into their brand of music, confusing and enlightening fans of both everywhere. From the Black Flag-ish monstrosity that is Eye For An Eye to the Black Sabbath-inspired Deliverance, this band has been everywhere and has done almost everything. Punk, metal, southern rock.Guitarist Woody Weatherman met drummer Reed Mullin in the sixth grade and they formed C.O.C. in high school. The band was originally called No Labels, or at least that was a band that Woody was in prior to COC. Mike Dean showed up one day and the core of the band was now complete.The band went through a lot of singers in this time, from Eric Eycke on their debut Eye For An Eye to Simon Bob Sinister on Technocracy. Mike Dean would sing, I don't know how often or why they would choose to let him sing after Eycke but then have someone else sing after Mike's attempt on Animosity, but I bet it didn't help the band get a definitive sound for people to catch on to. After the success of Animosity and the EP Technocracy, there's a bit of confusion as to what happened to whom next. (To be honest, it's hard to find an exact date (as in year, believe it or not) as to when these albums were released, probably because they were each released two or three times due to one label releasing one version, then another label stepping in and releasing it again. Eye For An Eye was on COC's own label, then released on Toxic Shock, then several years later on Caroline. Animosity on Death and then Metal Blade and so on.) But anyway, the band was having some trouble with tour promoters and distributors and the like, and decided to temporarily call it a day.As for the band themselves, they were trying to get out of their deal with one label, doing so by releasing Technocracy. But from what I've heard, as soon as the ink dried on the next label's deal, the band got the worst of the worst vibes and did their best to get out of that one by allowing that label to re-release Eye For An Eye again as well as a separate release for Six Songs With Mike Singing, while 'breaking up' and forming another band (just Mike and Woody and new drummer Brian Walsby) known as Snake Nation, which came out in 1989.COC reformed again, and Pepper Keenan from the band Graveyard Rodeo just showed up to join the band. Wow. I should have tried that with Metallica after Jason quit! The band started anew with Karl Agell singing and Phil Swisher on bass (Mike Dean was living in Philadelphia, playing in a band called Ninefinger). The band started touring in 1989 and 1990 and secured a deal for a new album, Blind, a totally new blistering direction for the band.
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