Corrosion of Conformity are steadily climbing towards the release of their new double LP, Good God / Baad Man. Following last month’s Southern-rumbling “Gimme Some Moore,” the band have now delivered a spacier, Sabbath-stoney second single called “You or Me.”
The top half of the five-and-a-half-minute stomp is full of seismic tom hits, swamp-caked chugs and psych-fried noodling, while Pepper Keenan’s waxes philosophical of a “madness” on the rise. A press release notes the “Sabbed-out track is an angry acid trip into the origins of the human condition since the dawn of man,” and that “in these primitive times, it’s clear to say they haven’t learned much.”
The tune also vortexes into a gloomily ambient mid-section, before blasting off towards a metal-heavy, do-or-die finale (“The dagger sets us free / It’s either you or me”).
You can sample COC’s latest headtrip via the music video up above, which mixes blade-wielding animations from Costin Chioreanu with performance footage of a battle-ready COC, as captured by director Mike Holderbeast.
As previously reported, Good God / Baad Man finds longtime COC guitarists guitarists Pepper Keenan and Woody Weatherman joined by drummer Stanton Moore and bassist Bobby “Rock” Landgraf. The double-sized effort presents different sides of the band, with Keenan having noted that Good God traffics in the “heavier/pissed end of the spectrum,” while Baad Man is “more on the throwdown rock scope.”
Good God / Baad Man is out April 3rd through Nuclear Blast, and can be pre-ordered here.