Corrosion of Conformity started as a hardcore punk band in 1982 in Raleigh, North Carolina, with original members Reed Mullin on drums, Woody Weatherman on guitar and Mike Dean on bass and vocals. COC were pioneers of the crossover thrash genre in the 1980s. The seeds for Corrosion of Conformity were planted when a 15 year old Woody Weatherman was taken by his father to a Black Flag concert. Inspired by the gig, he took up guitar after his father gave him an acoustic a few days later. Not being able to make enough noise with it, he traded it in immediately for a Gibson electric.
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Not so long ago.
The children laughed and played.
Now they're just charred corpses
Annihilated they play no more.
When everything is contaminated
Tell me what is gained.
Tell me who has won when nothing remains?
Burned limless victims of power's abuses
The poison countryside is the result
of a short fuse