North Carolinian heavy metal veterans Corrosion of Conformity have just announced that they will release new album titled No Cross No Crown on January 12, via Nuclear Blast. The record follows 2014’s IX, which was right before the time frontman Pepper Keenan had rejoined with the core Corrosion of Conformity trio of Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean and Reed Mullin to start touring, following a full decade of commitment as a guitarist with the New Orleans supergroup Down.
“Reed called me and mentioned maybe playing a couple shows,” said Keenan. “I said, ‘Let’s just go to Europe and see if it works.’ So we went to Europe and then ended up going back four times in one year… We toured for a year and then started tracking about ten or eleven months ago.”
No Cross No Crown was cut in about forty days over the course of a year, with longtime producer John Custer. “We took our time and didn’t put any pressure on ourselves,” Keenan says. “I’d go up from New Orleans and we’d do four or five days at a time, just hacking away at it. It was fun because we did it like a demo, but in a studio. We were writing and putting it on tape at the same time. We took what parts we thought were great from the old days and weren’t scared to go backwards. It kinda wrote itself that way.”
“Corrosion of Conformity and the prior records I’ve done with them didn’t just go away,” Keenan continued. “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. That’s been Corrosion of Conformity’s deal from day one. We’re not chasing anybody around. We’re not gonna worry about what the new trends are. Corrosion of Conformity is Corrosion of Conformity.”
Check out the album information below.
No Cross No Crown Track Listing
1. Novus Deus
2. The Luddite
3. Cast The First Stone
4. No Cross
5. Wolf Named Crow
6. Little Man
7. Matre’s Diem
8. Forgive Me
9. Nothing Left To Say
10. Sacred Isolation
11. Old Disaster
12. E.L.M.
13. No Cross No Crown
14. A Quest To Believe (A Call To The Void)
15. Son And Daughter
Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat
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