CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's Reunited 'Animosity' Lineup Announces First Dates

June 17, 2010

The reunited classic "Animosity" lineup of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY — Mike Dean (bass, vocals),Woody Weatherman (guitar) and Reed Mullin (drums) — has scheduled the following dates:

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

Also appearing on the bill are EAGLE TWIN, BLACK BREATH and the return of GOATSNAKE. The tour will also showcase openers RIGHTEOUS FOOL, featuring Mike and Reed from C.O.C.

The string of dates kick off in Los Angeles at the Southern Lord-sponsored The Power Of The Riff Festival, featuring this tour's full lineup as well as countless other brutal acts, including REPULSION, TRAP THEM, NAILS, FROM ASHES RISE and more.

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 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.

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