CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Guitarist Says Band's New Music Is 'Pretty Crazy'

Guitarist Woody Weatherman of the reunited "Animosity" lineup of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY was interviewed on the July 17 edition of the "Maximum Threshold" show. The program is now available for streaming using the audio player below.

On 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."

On CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's new music:

"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."

On whether CORROSION OF CONFORMITY has plans to embark on big tours in the coming months or if it will keep doing smaller shows:

"We're doing our own thing for now. There's a thing coming up in Chicago, I think in October, called the Riot Fest, which I think actually covers several venues. A bunch of bands [are also taking part in it], I think the CIRCLE JERKS are playing and NEGATIVE APPROACH — just some old-school guys. But other than that, we're doing this West Coast thing the second week of August with GOATSNAKE and some other Southern Lord bands. But other than that, we're just doing some club dates of our own, just testing the waters while we're working on this record."

On who is producing the new album:

"So far it's me, Reed and Mike [Dean; bass/vocals], 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 how they plan to get new music out there:

"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):

The reunited classic "Animosity" lineup of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY — Mike Dean (bass, vocals),Woody Weatherman (guitar) and Reed Mullin (drums) — will release a seven-inch single, "Your Tomorrow (Parts 1 And 2)", via Southern Lord Records. The single will include an exclusive brand new song and will be available at the band's upcoming shows and via Southern Lord mailorder and fine independent record stores everywhere. The single was recorded a few weeks ago and is currently in the process of being pressed onto black 180-gram wax. It will feature artwork (see below) by John Moore.

The reunited classic "Animosity" lineup of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY has scheduled the following dates:

Jul. 30 - Asheville, NC @ Stella Blue
Jul. 31 - Raleigh, NC @ The Pour House
Aug. 08 - Echo and Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA (The Power Of The Riff Fest)
Aug. 10 - DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
Aug. 12 - Neumo's – Seattle, WA
Aug. 13 - Austin, TX @ Emo's
Aug. 14 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater

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.