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| Animosity | 
 enlarge | Artist: Corrosion Of Conformity
Label: Metal Blade Import
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 48313
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 039841407822
EAN: 0039841407822
ASIN: B000001C88
Release Date: April 17, 2006
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Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | Loss For Words | | • | Mad World | | • | Consumed | | • | Holier | | • | Positive Outlook | | • | Prayer | | • | Intervention | | • | Kiss Of Death | | • | Hungry Child | | • | Animosity |
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Album Description
Import pressing of their 1996 album that is unavailable in the US. As one of the horizon expanders who brought us thrash music, Corrosion of Conformity fell heavily onto the punk side of song styling with riff sculpting taken from the book of doom bands such as Black Sabbath or Saint Vitus.
Album Details
Originally Released in 1996, this is Considered as One of their Best Full on Metal Albums.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
Crucial crossover classic June 24, 2005
13 out of 24 found this review helpful
Today in 2005, "punk" and "metal" bear almost no resemblance to their earlier incarnations from 20 years ago. The punk of today is a mere shadow of its former form; all elements of danger and threat have long since dried up and blown away, replaced with mass acceptance and commercialism. Traditional heavy metal doesn't even exist anymore. It's been cross-bred with other genres to the point of extinction. I'm not saying this is a bad thing. Change is inevitable, especially in music. But this process started somewhere, and I think one of the starting points was Animosity by COC.
In the early '80s, punk and metal were diametrically opposed. If you liked punk, you hated metal and vice versa. Eventually, things started to change. I remember when all of a sudden it was OK to like Motorhead. And then, a few hardcore bands began to openly admit that they liked Black Sabbath and such, and they wrote songs that made this apparent. COC was one of those bands, and Animosity is the prime example of this phenomenon. I can still vividly remember the night my bandmates and I went to Black Hole records in Brea CA and buying this LP and then going to the bassist's house to listen to it. We knew we liked it... but we didn't know if it was punk or metal. (Actually, as I recall our drummer didn't like it. But he didn't like anything.)
I'd hesitate to recommend this to anyone who's become a COC fan recently, which to me means since 1991, when they essentially left any and all "punk" trappings behind. I usually don't accuse bands of 'selling out' and in fact I often am annoyed when others do. But in this case, I think it's apt. COC sold out. Their last four albums haven't been completely worthless, but they're basically "Pepper Keenan and the Corroded Conformists" now. Pepper took control and made things groooovy. They sound like a grouchy Allman Bros. these days. On top of that, half of the new album sounds like Soundgarden circa 1996. I say if you want to hear COC when they had the burning fire going in their bellies, when they actually mattered, you need to hear Animosity. It's raw, it's rough, it's unpolished. But's it's @#$%ing intense and it'll blow your doors off.
 Very early COC that must be heard to be believed March 1, 2003
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was first introduced to COC with 1994's "Deliverance" album and the only knowledge I had had of any kind of hardcore COC past was on the remastered "Blind" album. When I had heard "Technocracy" later on, I realized I had been missing out. Then not too long later, I came across COC's "Animosity" in a bargain bin, and I was so surprised when I heard the utter musical anarchy of this album. Before Pepper Keenan ever reared his head, this lineup featured Mike Dean singing and playing bass, Reed Mullin drumming and doing some lead vocals as well, and Woody Weatherman on guitar. All three churn out pure punk/thrash/hardcore metal at a frenzied pace (the album clocks in at just under half an hour long) and while Dean and Mullin's venom spewing voices are an acquired taste, "Animosity" is still one fine album. "Loss For Words", "Mad World", "Prayer", and "Kiss of Death" are personal favorites of mine, and if you can find this album I strongly suggest snatching it up.
No use in listening to any other COC. January 2, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Short, sweet and simple. The lineup on this album smokes, the compositions on this album smoke, the playing on this album smokes. You should get this disc.
One of the best Thrash albums. February 10, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This album is simply a thrash powerhouse, this is one. COC along with DRI represent what crossover is all about. If you like Black Flag with a little Metallica thrown in, you would like this.
When can we expect a remastered version? March 27, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was arguably THE "crossover" album of the 80s, one of the crucial slabs of vinyl(remember those?)that "brought punks and metalheads together". It seemed like metalheads heard the S.O.D. album and went right out and grabbed this along with D.R.I.'s "Dealing With It", another "crossover" classic(that word always bugged me). What you get here is basically fast Black Sabbath with a healthy dose of heavy, rhythmic Black Flag action. You can bet Lars Ulrich was listening to Reed's drumming and wondering if he(Lars) had arthritis, and I remember fanzines proclaiming this record to rival Slayer or even top them(their most recent piece at the time was "Hell Awaits", so that's definitely fair comment, and remember C.O.C. were a three piece!). Anyway, the world and the human race is thirsting and hungering for this record to come back out, remastered with bonus tracks. If the first two Cryptic Slaughter albums get that kind of treatment, the Exploited, Broken Bones for crying out loud, why not Animosity?
P.S. you know if two or three popular regional hardcore bands stole their names from C.O.C. song titles, there's something good going on here. Yeah!
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