Title: Blind Artist: Corrosion of Conformity Label: Columbia Release Date: 1991 Rating: 5 Skulls
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Hel's Review:
This review came to be as a result of the 4 song "rough mix" advance of their new album that recently came into my possession. Beyond the disturbing appearance of "COC" as the band name instead to their full, proper moniker, I liked it, but could see how it could be heavier, in the end, simply by how it is mixed. And that made me think about what I would like to hear from them in the year 2000. And that made me reach for Blind.

This is a band that has always evolved. Once they were hardcore punk, I'm told. I got into them in their metal days, and watched them develop toward a more southern, groovy feel. I went to see them headline in a tiny club in 1992, and open for Metallica in an arena in the dark and gloomy days of the latter band's unmentionable album.

So what do I want to hear Corrosion of Conformity play today? I want "Damned for All Time", I want "Mine are the Eyes of God", I want "Dance of the Dead", I want "Vote with a Bullet", I want the spiky nuclear skull! So I reach for Blind, and hope fervently that America's Volume Dealer will be heavy in the way metal should be at most, there's a tune or two like this on at best, and that they are simply still metal at a minimum.

What's so great about Blind? What's not? It is probably the heaviest, most straightforwardly metal point in the band's discography. It has a lot of personal significance to me, relating to a certain time in my life. The intensity and passionate execution of these great songs can't be denied, and some of my all time favorites are here. See above... I wish I could give 5 of those cool spiky nuclear skulls, but I guess I'll have to settle for the boring ones.

 

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