LABEL: METAL BLADE
VINYL RELEASE DATE:1/14/2022
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 10/25/1985
VARIANT: ORANGE BROWN LP

Before Corrosion of Conformity would join the family of groove-truckin bands like Crowbar and Kyuss, the Raleigh, NC, unit were just three hardcore kids pioneering punks crossover with thrash-metal. Their second record, 1985s Animosity, is a 26-minute blast that unites Metallicas flaming-spear riffage, the Bad Brains cartoonish zip and the slow chug sections of Black Flags My War but with an even more overt reverence for Sabbathian fuzz, hinting at CoCs sludge metamorphosis in the following decade.