Corrosion of Conformity

       Corrosion of Consistency may be a better name for this band! Ok, Now I have people ready to kick my butt. You mad? Stay mad, but it will be for no reason because I have no hate for this band. They have had a long career, and it has been said that they are weakening, and not strong enough to continue mining this bluesy doom-metal they keep digging. I wonder if this “Psychic Vampire” was a member of the Colony of Birchmen, and knew I was going to say that. The song treads softly, and then showcases its speed for the futile resistant prey. The southern-fried boogie found on the “River of Stone” is not the only thing you will find here, but some devils, iron snakes, and huge a—spiders. If you spin the black circle make sure those people that stand by you are not just “Leeches” trying to take the best of you before your world cycles out of control. “El Lamento de Las Cabras” was more like blue sky research, until the sky became gray in the last foreboding twenty seconds. When you fear “The Doom” that is scheduled on judgment day does it get you down, or do you hope praying on the Black Sabbath that it will just pass you by? I will say I prefer if it just passes me by, but that groove around three and a half minutes eases the fear.                                              Sometimes I find when they speed up it just sounds like they struggle, or it doesn’t sound right, but working with “The Moneychangers” must have made miracles because here it sounds perfect! “Come Not Here” if you prefer some positive feedback; it’s just not my favorite. It is not difficult to see who this song is about, no one in specific, but I will say that bands sometimes turn green because they would like to have more of it. Then they make a deal and sell out. Sometimes we hate “What We Become,” but we can avoid becoming what we hate as long as we stay true to ourselves without trying to find an easy fix. As the last track comes to a close, dystopia seems to thrive. The delusion melted pretty fast, and I realize that while this song was good, it might have been better if this song was earlier in on the record instead of its climax, but then maybe the lyrics wouldn’t have made sense. “What new light brings this unraveling.” Good Point! My Favorites: Leeches, Your Tomorrow, The Doom, The Moneychangers, and What We Become