- Record Label: Candlelight
- Release Date: Feb 28, 2012
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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 6, 2012Corrosion of Conformity is an album with all the strength and integrity of COC's very best work.
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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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Feb 29, 2012Acting as a kind of crossroads between the old C.O.C. and the new, Corrosion of Conformity feels more like a distillation of their career than an evolution of their sound.
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Feb 29, 2012Corrosion of Conformity does overstay its welcome with a couple of second-rate tracks, but overall, the album manages to both recapture Animosity's feral energy and reach compositional peaks that the 1985 versions of Dean, Weatherman, and Mullin couldn't have accessed.
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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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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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Mar 6, 2012Blööz, blahs and mad-stonerpunk.
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Feb 29, 2012The vocal delivery throughout (care of guitarist Woody Weatherman and bassist Mike Dean) is pretty weak, especially compared to Pepper's attention-commanding style, and that, combined with a somewhat jarring mix of fast punk, smothering, Sabbath-ian metal and good-ol'-boy Southern rock, just whets the appetite for the return of Pepper and the big rock.
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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]