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Having shared stages with Slayer and other metal and hardcore underground stalwarts, Corrosion Of Conformity saw their star ascending a touch within their world.
Bassist Mike Dean has taken over the vocal spot, and his generally tortured wails and growls marry well with the unpolished riffs and songs on hand. Less immediate than current work by their scene fellows, Animosity is a warped and somewhat hard to decode affair, pulling from all current heavy music styles without ever really pledging allegiance to one specific notion. Weird point: the band would move away from the grit and grime of this sound in years to come, only to gain it back in somewhat different form with far more rosy commercial results.
Which goes to prove that somewhere in the anatomy of their gurgling guts, metal and punk have more shared organs than perhaps pundits of either style would feel comfortable admitting. And once again I disagree with Ultraboris! Yes, this may be a little sloppy at times, with raw production, but the spirit of old school hardcore punk is very much alive and well on this album. And the slow, sludgy, Sabbath-like parts on this album were revolutionary in that virtually no hardcore punk bands were doing anything like this with the exception of maybe Flipper at the time.
This is not the boring trudging along of modern metalcore bands, these slow bits ooze power and anger. Raging from start to finish, every song on this album blasts at you with pitbull-like intensity.
And Mike's vocals are everything but polished and polite--his rabid screaming and yelling has lots of character that adds to the overall mood and feeling of this album.
Woody Weatherman's guitar lays down equal parts dark crunch and moaning, wailing solos worthy of Iommi in his prime, and Reed Mullin thrashes up a storm behind his drums. This kind of music is not always about tightness and musical ability though COC had those , it's about passion and feeling, and this album has that to spare. Look to album opener "Loss For Words" for a good example of prime hardcore punk thrashing seguing into doomy metallic breakdown near the end, with powerful intent.
Check this out and see what I mean when I say that this blows away most anything they did after 's "Blind", their last good album. Ya know, originally I thought this album was complete shit Don't expect a real thrash masterpiece here, but in general there are some pretty decent riffs to be found here
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