I don’t know why, but Sunday and Metal seem to be going together these days. So I might as well throw my horns up and into the ring.

Corrosion of Conformity is one of my favorite bands. For music, lyrics, and overall attitude and outlook, few stand up with COC. Their Deliverance album is only surpassed by In The Arms Of God, which I think is one of the best albums ever (one of my desert island discs, and tops in my iTunes rotation) — Pepper’s scream at the end of the song “In the Arms of God” always gives me goosebumps. Always. The song is that powerful.

Songs like: Vote With a Bullet, Albatross, Clean My Wounds, Señor Limpio, Wiseblood, Drowning In a Daydream, The Door,  Diablo Blvd., Who’s Got the Fire, 13 Angels, Paranoid Opioid, Rise River Rise, The Backslider, In the Arms of God, and so many more. 

While I’m down with Down, I hope Pepper doesn’t forget COC.

“Vote With a Bullet” from COC’s Blind album. At the time COC had a different (new) lineup. Pepper was actually a “backup” guy back then, but had this as a one-off on the Blind album. Call it the start of a great era in the history of COC.

As they wrote in the liner notes of their Live album, “to all the free thinkers and beer drinkers… this one is for you.”