CORROSION OF CONFORMITY

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Latest Activity: Aug. 21, 2008

Early days (1982-1986)

C.O.C. started as a hardcore punk band in 1982 in Raleigh, North Carolina, with original members Reed Mullin on drums, Woody Weatherman on guitar, Mike Dean on bass and Benji Shelton on vocals. COC were pioneers of the crossover thrash genre in the 1980s.

They were featured on the No Core compilation tape and made their vinyl debut in 1983 on the Why Are We Here 7" compilation with other North Carolina area bands like Blood Mobile, Stillborn Christians, and No Labels.

Benji soon departed and was replaced by Eric Eycke in time for the Eye for an Eye LP in 1984. While still very much a hardcore punk record, this was the band's first dabbling in the heavy metal and they began to play more gigs with straight up metal bands like Slayer.

Soon after, Eric left the band and COC continued as a three piece with Mike and Reed sharing the vocal duties on the 1986 follow up LP Animosity, considered to be one of the classic records in the "cross-over" genre. Animosity got rave reviews in punk and heavy metal fanzines across the globe.

In 1987, COC recruited Simon Bob Sinister away from their fellow Carolina band and Death Records labelmates, Ugly Americans. The band's 1987 release, Technocracy featured the hectic thrash musicianship of COC with a cleaner vocal style than they had in the past.

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Comment by Lou Mo on August 21, 2008 at 4:35am: Deliverance is my favorite too!

Comment by Gia on July 10, 2008 at 12:54pm: COC Is an amazing band - the Deliverance cd is my favorite one - Albatross is an unbelievable song -

Comment by footyboyfield on June 9, 2008 at 3:19am: One of my favourite bands for sure. you need to add where Pepper Keenan came in though, I hated their thrash. I only liked Deliverance, In The Arms Of God, Blind and Wiseblood.

Comment by Jon on June 7, 2008 at 8:28pm: I agree!!!!

Comment by Rob Beecroft on June 6, 2008 at 4:53pm: Way Under-rated!!!

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