Confirmed: CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's 'Animosity' Lineup Reunited

May 12, 2010

BLABBERMOUTH.NET has received confirmation that the classic "Animosity" lineup of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY — Mike Dean (bass, vocals),Woody Weatherman (guitar) and Reed Mullin (drums) — has reformed and is working on a new album. There are even some early-August shows lined up for the West Coast already, although they have not yet been officially announced.

Mike and Reed were most recently members of RIGHTEOUS FOOL, which also featured guitarist Jason Browning (from HR of BAD BRAINS' solo band). That group will apparently stay together and will coexist with the newly reformed CORROSION OF CONFORMITY.

Video footage of RIGHTEOUS FOOL performing the C.O.C. track "Hungry Child" on June 3, 2009 at The Pour House Music Hall in Raleigh, North Carolina can be viewed below.

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 set a June 1 release date for 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 will contain 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.

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