Corrosion Of Conformity - Happily Ever After / Technocracy (live 1-1-2015)

Performing at the Pour House Music Hall in Raleigh, North Carolina on Thursday January 1, 2015.
Founded by three teenagers in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1982, Corrosion Of Conformity began as an underground band and went on to transform heavy music, challenging boundaries and serving as what Decibel Magazine called "a crucial stylistic lynchpin in the bridge between metal and punk" that "irrevocably reshaped crossover's sonic possibilities."
Thirty years and many changes later, COC's original trio is back with a self-titled release for London-based independent Candlelight Records.
"Corrosion Of Conformity isn't a comeback album or an example of diminishing returns," Invisible Oranges observed. "It's a testament to immense talent and the elusive endowment of staying power."
In the summer of 2010, COC's founding members - bassist/vocalist Mike Dean, drummer/vocalist Reed Mullin and guitarist Woodroe Weatherman - gathered at Weatherman's farm in Virginia to get to work again after a five-year hiatus. With longtime vocalist/guitarist Pepper Keenan busy working with metal super group Down back home in New Orleans, COC began playing together as a three-piece for the first time since the mid-1980s.
That's the same lineup behind 1985's Animosity, widely considered a crossover classic. While the trio re-visited songs from that album and 1987's Technocracy, this was not just an exercise in nostalgia, and they soon began writing new material.
The original members of COC are excited to be working together again.
"Mike, Woody and I essentially learned how to play music together and cultivated our own style, sound, and unspoken language," said Mullin. "Re-bonding with them musically has been the greatest thing that's ever happened to me."
Woodroe Weatherman - guitar
Mike Dean - bass, vocals
Reed Mullin - drums, vocals
www.coc.com

[@davidhicks2900]

Played in bands all my life and still do - technocracy in the 80s was a huge influence on my playing style and my hardcore sound - still drop the load with a hell of a nerve. COC went in a different direction but I still have the roots.

[@sigmundhightower1766]

THIS IS THE ERA!!!!! THIS IS THEE Lineup!!!!!! Reed Mullin, vastly underrated!!!!

[@jeffreycherep8264]

RIP Reed. You were a really great guy.

[@thesnapperkeeper]

The REAL Corrosion of Conformity

[@cjh555]

Rest in power reed
Best c.o.c album ever!
Then mike sings six

[@cvmaddog13]

Nice to see the og lineup back and jamming out

[@hectortamales405]

The first song is "Loss For Words" off of the Animosity album. I caught up with them two years ago to party with them. Glad to see they're still playing the old stuff.

[@dwaynefick6947]

Hell yeah

[@djgforce11]

RIP Reed

[@Opegh]

6 songs with mike!

[@emilyroy9434]

Love it, though I'd rather they played the complete "Happily Ever After" ...

[@wedgecharger]

Lock your doors and say good night

[@TheBrigman]

I was there

[@jarijaaskelainen1995bornagain]

Reed; Wake Up in Jesus´ Holy, Allmighty, Ultimate and Eternal Name, If it is A Will Of Father (3IN1)! Amen!

[@TrevyTrev-andTheFunkyPets]

Reed at 5:57 was pretty funny.

[@jeffreycherep8264]

I got choked up watching that. He was a really cool guy.

[@marianboreck5217]

Mike is a great bass player, but needs to leave the vocals to Pepper

[@markmckinney8963]

Uh.. Mike sang these songs originally so..

[@maidenfan4927]

I prefer the Mike era....

[@johnnynobuddy1]

Your brownies are half baked.