CORROSION OF CONFORMITY — Deliverance (review)

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY — Deliverance album cover Album · 1994 · Stoner Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Kingcrimsonprog
Corrosion Of Conformity’s fourth full-length studio album, and first both on a bigger record label and with guitarist Pepper Keenan on vocals, is by all accounts a classic album, containing some of the band’s biggest songs and making up a large part of their live set even to this day.

Deliverance saw the band move far away from their hardcore punk and cross over Thrash roots, and move into a territory of big, wide, Sabbath inspired songs, Southern leanings and a retro-feel that was paradoxically the modern thing at the time, when both alternative metal and stoner rock were starting to pick up followings.

There is some variety to be found here too, such as in the brief acoustic number ‘Without Wings,’ and the slide guitar filled, haunting southern ballad ‘Shelter,’ both of which help elevate the album above the crowd and display the bands musicality in addition to the raw rock energy that comes across on the rest of the tracks.

Pepper Keenan’s vocals are excellent here, at times evoking a mixture of Ozzy Osbourne, Ronnie Von Zant and James Hetfield. The guitar and bass work is top notch as always, with big riffs being par for the course as well as the excellent drums from Reed Mullin that are tight, nuanced and 70s influenced.

Highlights include ‘Broken Man’ as well as the big singles ‘Albatross’ and ‘Clean My Wounds,’ and lastly the subtly menacing album closer ‘Pearls Before Swine,’ which perfectly treads the line between slow, brooding, spacey stoner rock and a big loud groove metal track.

Overall; Deliverance features that powerful, indefinable ‘classic album’ x-factor in spades. Any serious fan of the band will no doubt be familiar with the record and it is a perfect starting point for any potential new fans.
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Kingcrimsonprog wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Cheers Man
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I like "Wiseblood" just a bit more, but "Deliverance" is a great album too. "Classic" is just the right word. Great review :-)

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