Corrosion of Conformity - Your Tomorrow EP

Without belaboring the point, C.O.C. has really given David Bowie a run for his money in the changing-styles department. This band has shifted styles more times than you can really count, but it’s been a solid undertaking for the storied career that began way back in 1982. Currently sounding more “southern metal” the addition to the lineage that is C.O.C. is a pretty good one.

I recall buying Animosity from the record store back in 1985 and being pretty blown away by the sheer insanity of it. However, 1991’s Blind sealed the deal and was a pretty sizable influence on my former band’s sound back in the day. All these years after the fact C.O.C. still delivers a punch, this time by way of this southern metal movement that seems to be grappling with the underground scene. This EP of basically one song cut into two parts is pretty interesting and solid in the grungy ‘ugly’ department. I think this southern rock thing is catching on to a large degree, but I see the medium being pimped so harshly that it becomes trendy. In the meantime, we have some great tunes being fashioned from the ashes of doom and crust.

Both of the tracks are weighty slabs of meaty metal that grind your mental gears just enough to not totally strip them, yet damage them to the point of excess. It’s not even so much typical of the genre as it is typical of the illumination of the sound and style; the tracks are heavy metal at is most stripped down. The production is somewhat muddy but that adds to the ambience of the feel and movement of the music. When you listen to this EP you just feel dirty, ugly even, and it’s a trek through swampy refuse that weights down your feet and severely clouds your head.

For once more changing the plans to afford no stagnancy C.O.C. definitely deserves some added credence for two crazy tracks of some Everglades sludgy goodness.        

Release Date: September 9, 2010
Label: Southern Lord Records

TRACK LISTING

1.  Your Tomorrow Pt. 1
2.  Your Tomorrow Pt. 2

Total playing time:  7:55

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Reviewer: Chris

September 27, 2010