Mike Dean Interview
Associated Act: Corrosion Of Conformity
Genres: Crossover thrash, hardcore punk, heavy metal, sludge metal
No Cross No Crown, the band’s first recording with vocalist/guitarist Pepper Keenan in over a decade, will see worldwide release on January 12th, 2018 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment on CD, digital, vinyl, and cassette formats.
Recording in North Carolina with longtime producer John Custer, on No Cross No Crown beefy Southern stompers like “The Luddite,” “Little Man,” and “Forgive Me” are interspersed with melancholy guitar interludes like “No Cross,” “Matre’s Diem,” and “Sacred Isolation” – just like Sabbath used to do in the ’70s. In the end, the record serves as irrefutable proof of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY‘s ability to overcome. “CORROSION OF CONFORMITY and the prior records I’ve done with them didn’t just go away,” Keenan observes. “It’s an honor to be back out there and have an opportunity to do it again in a real way and not some washed-up reunion thing. Even before we wrote the record, we were out there for a year seeing there was a demand for it and that there was a void that we could fill. We’re not chasing anybody around. We’re not gonna worry about trends.