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. Heavy Metal is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1967 and 1974, took blues and rock to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by the use... Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is a faster and heavier version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often passionate songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ... In music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of a musical arrangement. ... Raleigh is the capital of North Carolina, a state of the United States of America. ... Crossover Thrash was a term used in the 1980s to described the first wave of bands that mixed hardcore punk (or more specifically the part of it called thrashcore) and thrash metal. ...

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. Heavy Metal is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1967 and 1974, took blues and rock to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by the use...

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. Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ...

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. Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Sanctuary Records is the largest independent record label in the United Kingdom, and the largest music management company in the world, looking after around 120 acts. ... Jimmy Bower is an American Heavy Metal guitarist and drummer who has played with numerous underground bands, most notably Eyehategod, Crowbar, Down, The Mystik Krewe of Clearlight, Debris Inc. ... A down is a hill, usually made of chalk and in southern England. ... This article is about a celestial body. ...

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. Stoner Metal and Sludge Metal are often used interchangeably, but some fans make distinctions: Sludge metal has more similarities with grindcore and hardcore punk. ... Hetfield on a live performance James Hetfield is the main songwriter, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and founding member of the band Metallica. ... Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in October 1981. ... Warren Haynes (born 6 April 1960), virtuoso guitarist and musician, presently most well-known in the jam band world and by fans of the Allman Brothers Band, is often referred to as the hardest working man in show business. ... The original Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band is a pioneering and innovative Southern rock and Blues group from Macon, Georgia originally popular in the 1970s, described by Rolling Stones George Kimball in 1971 as the best . ... Govt Mule is a southern rock band formed in 1994 as an Allman Brothers Band side project, but has taken on a life of its own. ... This article is about a celestial body. ...

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. A down is a hill, usually made of chalk and in southern England. ... In the Indian religions Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism, nirvāna (from the Sanskrit निर्वाण, Pali: Nibbāna -- Chinese: 涅槃; Pinyin: niè pán), literally extinction and/or extinguishing, is the culmination of the yogis pursuit of liberation. ... Foo Fighters is a rock supergroup formed by musician Dave Grohl in 1995. ... PROBOT (portmanteau: probe + robot) is a musical project masterminded by Dave Grohl. ...

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)

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

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")

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Music videos

• "Vote with a Bullet" (1992)
• "Dance of the Dead" (1992)
• "Albatross" (1994)
• "Wiseblood" (1996)
• "Drowning in a Daydream" (1996)
• "Stonebreaker" (2005)

External links

• Official website
• Fan site
• Corrosion of Conformity at Encyclopaedia Metallum