Corrosion of Conformity

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Corrosion of Conformity is an American heavy metal band. They started as a hardcore punk band in 1982 in Raleigh, North Carolina, with original members Reed Mullin on drums, Woody Weatherman on guitar and Mike Dean on bass and vocals. COC were pioneers of the crossover thrash genre in the 1980s.

After Dean's temporary departure in 1987 and the addition of Karl Agell on vocals, Phil Swisher on bass and Pepper Keenan on rhythm guitar, COC gravitated towards a more straightforward heavy metal sound. By 1991's Blind they had become a heavy metal band.

In 1993, Agell and Swisher left the band, 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.

COC was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award in the "Best Metal Performance" category for the song "Drowning in a Daydream" off Wiseblood. Soon after that, Columbia dropped COC, who then moved to Sanctuary Records. Mullin left the band in 2001. Since then the band has worked with a series of drummers: Jimmy Bower of Down, Stanton Moore of Galactic and Jason Patterson, who previously played drums in the Raleigh-based rock band Cry of Love.

In recent years COC has mixed elements of stoner rock with their metal sound. 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 former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl's Probot project.

1 Members
- 1.1 Former members
- 1.2 Collaborators
2 Discography
3 External links

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Members

Pepper Keenan – guitar, vocals (1990 onwards)
Woody Weatherman – guitar (1982 onwards)
Mike Dean – bass, vocals (1982-1987, 1993 onwards)

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Former members

Reed Mullin – drums (1982–2001)
Karl Agell – vocals (Blind)
Phil Swisher – bass (Blind)
Simon Bob Sinister – vocals (Technocracy)
Eric Eycke – vocals (Eye For An Eye)
Benji Shelton – vocals (original vocalist)

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Collaborators

Jason Patterson – drums (2005 onwards)
Stanton Moore – drums (In The Arms of God)
Jimmy Bower – drums (2001–2002)
Warren Haynes – slide guitar ("Stare Too Long," America's Volume Dealer)
James Hetfield – vocals ("Man or Ash," Wiseblood)

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Discography

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Albums

Eye For An Eye (1983, No Core Records, re-released by Toxic Shock Records)
Animosity (1985, Death Records)
Blind (1991)
Deliverance (1994)
Wiseblood (1996)
America's Volume Dealer (2000, re-released in 2004 as a DualDisc)
Live Volume (2001, also released on DVD and DVDA)
In the Arms of God (2005)

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EPs

Technocracy (1987, Death Records)
Six Songs With Mike Singing: 1985 (1989, Caroline Records)

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Compilations

No Core tape (1982, No Core)
Why Are We Here? 7" (1983, No Core Records, "Poison Planet", "Indifferent", "Too Cool")
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")