(02-05-2018, 12:54 AM)Jagsfan4life9/28/82 Wrote:

(02-04-2018, 12:55 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Corrosion of Conformity is one of my favorite bands and they just dropped their new album No Cross No Crown a few weeks ago and it is very good.  One of their best I think.  If you're not familiar with them, they're a bluesy/southern rock/metal band heavily influenced by Sabbath and Skynyrd.  Check them out if you're looking for something along those lines.

It's funny, I always thought of them as a thrash band. But that's only because I remember the song "Technocracy" from a promotional compilation cassette I was given at a record store for buying some thrash metal albums. It had them, Possessed, Nuclear Assault, Voivod, Death, Dark Angel, Agent Steel, Crumbsuckers, Ludichrist and maybe a few others. I think I still have that tape. Nothing to play it on, though.

They went through several lineup and style changes in the 80s.  The original 3 members started out as more of a hardcore punk band and then became more thrash metal and added a lead vocalist.   Their album "Blind" in 1991 they changed vocalists and added Pepper Keenan on guitars to bring the band member count to 5.  Pepper did vocals on one track on "Blind" and then they parted ways with lead singer at the time Karl Agell and Pepper took over to this day with the exception of an album they put out a few years ago again as the 3 piece outfit while Pepper was touring heavily with his other band Down which you might be familiar with.  He's back now though and with him in the band their sound is very bluesy/southern rock/metal as I mentioned before.  Very underrated band.

Pepper was also a guest vocalist on Metallica's cover of Skynyrd's Tuesday's Gone on the Garage Inc. album fwiw.

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