Thus “Loss For Words,” “Intervention” and the immortal “Kiss Of Death” are a seamless blend of metal heft and raw, spontaneous hardcore energy. Less immediate than current work by their scene fellows, Animosity is a warped and somewhat hard to decode affair, pulling from all current heavy music styles without ever really pledging allegiance to one specific notion. Bassist Mike Dean has taken over the vocal spot, and his generally tortured wails and growls marry well with the unpolished riffs and songs on hand.
But on Animosity it’s a grimy, doomy, and only occasionally speedy sort of metal, kind of like if Saint Vitus decided to record a punk album. And in turn, as the hardcore punks probably predicted, the band’s sound did indeed become a bit less hardcore and a bit more metal. Thus it made sense to move to the more stable label of Death records (the hardcore/speedcore Metal Blade subsidiary as opposed to Toxic Shock, the micro-label that had issued their debut). Having shared stages with Slayer and other metal and hardcore underground stalwarts, Corrosion Of Conformity saw their star ascending a touch within their world. Even if you just know Corrosion as a metal band, give it a few listens. If you're into Corrosion Of Conformity as a punk band, this is some of their best material from their punk days and I would definitely recommend to them. It's aggressiveness and punch cement it's reputation as a classic among punk fans and a tasty little listen for metal fans. The whole momentum on the album is a nonstop ass-kicking that holds no bars and hates to stop.Īnimosity is a swift, slicing, thrash-stained hardcore album with oodles of punchy riffs, static-y fuzz, insidious atmosphere, and pure undiluted evil fueling these dark anthems of the murky punk underground.
Animosity has extremely thick bass to it and has a muddy feel to it that makes the songs have more density to them and actually jive somewhat due to thumping drive it adds to the sound. It ends on the creeping instrumental Animosity, which could easily fit itself onto a Black Sabbath album. Sludgier songs such as the almighty Holier and Intervention with their static and distortion effects only cake on more layers of sinister insidiousness.
Animosity feels very complete, energetic, insidious in this more tightly-knit and concentrated package.Īnimosity gives off a feeling of invasive evil that attacks you at all angles and leaves you battered and bruised with thrashing punk anthems such as Mad World and Hungry Child. The rhythms flow much better and the instruments actually harmonize to create sinister anthems for the punk crypt.
#Animosity shows no sign letting professional#
Corrosion Of Conformity are no longer just dicking around and playing their instruments just to play, but have now put on the big boy pants and are playing at a much more professional level. The mix of instruments sounds overall more refined and talented than Eye For An Eye. It's still hardcore punk through and through, it just has a few metallic trimmings to spruce it up. This album shows metal influence growing within their music as solos and more metallic riffs plant themselves in the music.
#Animosity shows no sign letting how to#
They start adding more thrash metal influence to their sound a-la Suicidal Tendencies and learn how to play their instruments better. Animosity shows Corrosion Of Conformity starting to take themselves seriously as it is much better played and much better put together than Eye For An Eye.
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