Live Volume (Live Volume - Corrosion of Conformity)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Live Volume - Corrosion of Conformity
Date:	12/06/08 (15 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great, authentic, loyal performance.

Disadvantages: Uneven focus on the band's more recent style.

Recorded in 2001, this live album focuses entirely on Corrosion of Conformity's career from 1991 to 2000, ignoring their first decade as a punk/thrash crossover band which is probably for the best as that would spoil the consistency. This performance is tight and professional, without falling victim to the indulgent solos and deviations that usually come with 'stoner' bands, though some of this may of course be down to the editing that allows it to all fit on a single CD.

These songs blur together to some extent in their predictable stoner grooves, but there's still enough variety to keep things distinctive, admittedly mostly stemming from the classic 'Blind' album which loses out in favour of greater focus on the band's more recent works. Pepper Keenan's vocals are at their best here, full of energy even if he sounds like he's ripping off Metallica's James Hetfield throughout, and as an accurate 'best-of' covering the band's stoner rock period, it can't be faulted as the only essential purchase after 'Blind.'

1. These Shrouded Temples
2. Diablo Blvd.
3. Senor Limpio
4. King of the Rotten
5. Wiseblood
6. Who's Got the Fire
7. Albatross
8. My Grain
9. Congratulations Song
10. 13 Angels / 7 Days
11. Vote With a Bullet
12. Zippo
13. Long Whip / Big America
14. Shelter
15. Clean My Wounds

Summary: Corrosion of Conformity's first live album (2001).