Corrosion of Conformity - Blind
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Artist: Corrosion of ConformityEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: SBME SPECIAL MKTS.
Soundtracks:
- These Shrouded Temples...
- Damned for All Time
- Dance of the Dead
- Buried
- Break the Circle
- Painted Smiling Faces
- Mine Are the Eyes of God
- Shallow Ground
- Vote With a Bullet
- Great Purification
- White Noise
- Echoes in the Well
- ...Remain
- Condition A/Condition B
- Future Now
- Jim Beam And The Coon Ass
Free Music Notes for Blind
Free Music Review: Unique in COC's oeuvre and a jewel of 90s metal
Hit: 5 Stars
Blind occupies a curious space in the career of Corrosion of Conformity. It's either the metal tail to their punk/thrash crossover 80s period, or it's the hardcore beginnings to their Southern metal 90s period. Figure in the absence of departed Mike Dean (who would shortly thereafter rejoin) and the sole appearances of bassist Phil Swisher and singer Karl Agell, and Blind sticks out in their catalog from whichever direction you view it.
And stick out it should. It's quite simply one of the most devastating metal albums ever created. From Karl Agell's haunting, Ozzy-like scream, to the absolutely perfect production (particularly of Reed Mullin's superb and varied drum work and Swisher's bass), I don't think there's a dull moment on this album, thematically encapsulated by "These Shrouded Temples . . . Remain."
While COC would eventually go overboard with the light interludes on Deliverance, "Shallow Ground" here perfectly bridges the eastern-tinged speed metal of "Mine are the Eyes of God" and the heavy distortion of "Vote with a Bullet." Yes, that's a real song name on the album! The sheer severity of COC's left-wing lyrical content reaches its zenith here; in subsequent albums it would largely take a backseat to Pepper Keenan's inscrutable "poetics."
In every way - lyrics, production, riffs, solos (which never come close to over-the-top guitar heroics but remain more drawn and sorrowful), vocals, and drumming in particular, Blind is a complete metal masterpiece, almost shamefully under-recognized for its contribution to the metal mind.
(Having never owned the CD version, I can't speak to the three bonus tracks.)
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