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- Record Label: Candlelight
- Release Date: Feb 28, 2012
- Artist(s): Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman, Reed Mullin
- Summary: The eighth album for the North Carolina punk metal band lacks Pepper Keenan and sees the return of the lineup that recorded its 1985's release Animosity.
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- Record Label: Candlelight
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Sludge Metal, Punk Metal
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Feb 29, 2012The album's production is without needless fanfare and benefits from it immensely. It allows the weighty three-piece to shine without trickery.
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Mar 6, 2012Corrosion of Conformity is an album with all the strength and integrity of COC's very best work.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014IX showcases a band with little interest in repetition. [Summer 2014, p.90]
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Mar 15, 2012Bassist Mike Dean may not have the monster vocal chops of immediate predecessor Pepper Keenan, but he's forceful enough to cut through the firestorm whipped up by guitarist Woody Weatherman.
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Q MagazineFeb 29, 2012The lean on their punk metal roots as rawness and straightforward riffing dominate in an album that, despite missing Keenan, does recall their early-'80s heft. [Mar 2012, p.105]
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Mar 6, 2012Blööz, blahs and mad-stonerpunk.
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Kerrang!Mar 20, 2012It's weighty and impressive in places, but without Pepper's howl it also sounds curiously incomplete. [3 Mar 2012, p.53]
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Apr 26, 2012
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