CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: More Tour Dates Announced

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY has added three new dates to its previously announced schedule: October 7 at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey; October 8 at Chicago, Illinois' Riot Fest; and October 10 at Highline Ballroom in New York City.

With the twenty-fifth anniversary of the classic "Animosity" album approaching, the original incarnation of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY (guitarist Woody Weatherman, bassist/vocalist Mike Dean and drummer Reed Mullin) will play its first live shows in over twenty years with the tour kick-off this week in Asheville, North Carolina.

The reunited trio announced earlier this month that it has recorded a new seven-inch single, "Your Tomorrow (Parts 1 and 2)", which will be available at all upcoming tour dates and via Southern Lord's web site.

RIGHTEOUS FOOL, featuring Mike Dean and Reed Mullin, will open all dates, with other support acts including ZOROASTER (Asheville),EAGLE TWIN (Aug. 8-10),BLACK BREATH (Aug. 8-10),BLACK TUSK (Raleigh),U.S. CHRISTMAS (both N.C. dates),IRON AGE (Austin) and very special guests for the October dates to be announced.

The dates are as follows:

Jul. 30 - Asheville, NC - Stella Blue
Jul. 31 - Raleigh, NC - The Pour House
Aug. 08 - Los Angeles, CA - The Power of The Riff Fest (Echoplex)
Aug. 10 - San Francisco, CA - DNA Lounge
Aug. 12 - Seattle, WA - Neumo’s
Aug. 13 - Austin, TX - Emo's
Aug. 14 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
Oct. 07 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
Oct. 08 - Chicago, IL - Riot Fest (Double Door)
Oct. 10 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom

In a recent interview with the "Maximum Threshold" show, Weatherman stated about CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's plans for the immediate future, "We're kind of just getting geared back up after being kind of down for the last three or four years or whatever. We've got a little seven-inch [single] coming out in a couple of weeks, and we're headed out to the West Coast for that Southern Lord mini-tour thing. And we've got a bunch more dates coming up.

"We're doing this three-piece thing [and] planning a [full-length] record, doing the whole deal. I think later on we're gonna venture back in and do the four-piece thing again with Pepper [Keenan; CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist, who is not part of the "Animosity" lineup] — that's what everybody wants to do — but for now, for this year, we're doing this three-piece deal."

Regarding the direction of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's new music, he said, "Man, the new stuff we're writing is pretty crazy. I'm not gonna say that it floats all the way back to the super-, super-old-school stuff, but it's definitely heading in that direction."

On whether the new material will have a raw sound or if it will be highly produced:

"Nah, nah — we're not going for the highly produced stuff this go-around. It's pretty raw stuff — it's a little along the faster side of what we do. But, I mean, it's always C.O.C. — we don't ever leave what we do — but we're definitely living it up going back a little more old school on this deal.

"It's fun. It's fun to have Reed [Mullin; drums] back. 'Cause, hell, he's been gone for 10 years. He took a pretty good break, but he's back on it now, man, and he's just as sick as ever."

When asked who is producing the new CORROSION OF CONFORMITY album, Woody said, "So far it's me, Reed and Mike, which is crazy. Mike is, like, the wizard in the studio, man. We're doing it... It's up here at my place, we just set a studio up in this big building that I've got. As far as whether these recordings will wind up being the actual record, I don't know, but we did the seven-inch up here, and... You know, Mike Dean, man, he's been at the controls of a lot of our stuff we've done — even the last couple of records, he's really joined in on the fun of helping to record it and all that stuff. I think it's gonna be self-produced this time around. We're having too much fun to turn it over to somebody else."

On the topics of how CORROSION OF CONFORMITY plans to get its new music out there, Woody said, "I think the world is different now, the music world. Heck, I don't know what route we're gonna go. Like I said, the seven-inch is coming out on Southern Lord; those dudes are pretty cool. I wouldn't mind doing the whole record with those guys, [but] I don't know what the future is.

"Man, you don't have to go with the giant labels anymore — it's almost kind of a hindrance, with the Internet and everything and the downloads and whatnot. It's like a different world now. And I don't totally understand it. It's not like it was ten years ago, that's for sure. It's kind of cool. I mean, you don't have to rely on that kind of stuff, which is kind of... It put a lot of label people out of work, which blows, but it's good for the bands, I think, 'cause you can control your own destiny, which is what we're doing. I love it. 'Cause right now we're free and clear [from any contractual obligations to labels], man — we don't owe nobody nothing and we're going for it."

Woody Weatherman interviewed on "Maximum Threshold" (click on player below to launch audio):

Mullin co-founded CORROSION OF CONFORMITY in 1982 as a hardcore punk act alongside guitarist Woody Weatherman and bassist Mike Dean before leaving the band in 2001 amidst health concerns.

As previously reported, Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division, has just released a new CORROSION OF CONFORMITY best-of collection in the "Playlist" compilation albums series. Entitled "Playlist: The Very Best Of Corrosion Of Conformity", the CD contains remastered versions of the following songs:

01. Heaven's Not Overflowing
02. Vote With A Bullet
03. Drowning In A Daydream
04. Albatross
05. Clean My Wounds
06. The Land Of Free Disease
07. Buried
08. King Of The Rotten
09. Big Problems
10. Fuel (Jam-Box Tape)
11. Long Whip / Big America
12. Wishbone (Some Tomorrow)
13. The Door
14. My Grain

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's latest album, "In the Arms of God", came out in 2005 on Sanctuary Records. The group's first collection of new material since 2000's "America's Volume Dealer" was produced by C.O.C.'s longtime collaborator John Custer. Besides working on four of the band's previous albums, Custer also produced C.O.C. bassist Mike Dean's track on Dave Grohl's PROBOT project and C.O.C.'s contribution to "Nativity In Black", the BLACK SABBATH tribute compilation. Playing drums was New Orleans' Stanton Moore, skinsman for the renowned jazz-funk combo GALACTIC.