CORROSION OF CONFORMITY America's Volume Dealer (2023) LP Vinyl RSD

The year 2000 was a weird time for COC. Pepper Keenan had spent half the nineties turning the band into one of the heaviest, most groove-locked things in American rock, and America's Volume Dealer landed right at the intersection of Southern sludge and something that felt almost dangerously radio-adjacent. It got slept on. It shouldn't have.

This 2023 Record Store Day repress gives the album its due. If you came to Corrosion of Conformity through Deliverance or Wiseblood, this is the natural next chapter, all riff weight and Carolinian grit, built for high volume and low lighting. The kind of heavy alternative record that makes you realise the line between metal and Southern rock was always just a suggestion. Essential for anyone serious about American heavy music.

Double LP pressed on clear vinyl with white swirl. RSD 2023 release. Origin: USA. Genre sits across punk crossover and sludge metal.

Fans of: Black Label Society, Down, Clutch