CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Eye For An Eye To Be Reissued November 6th; Includes Six Songs With Mike Singing EP
September 5, 2012, 12 years ago
Candlelight Records confirms November 6th as the North American release date of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s Eye For An Eye. This special reissue has been remastered/packaged and includes the EP, Six Songs With Mike Singing. Both titles have been out of print for years. It follows the successful release of the band’s self-titled album earlier this year. A deluxe digibook edition of the album, limited to 1,000 for North America, will be available at limited retailers and via Candlelight’s official webstore. The digibook version includes extended liner notes and a rare pictorial gallery.
Twenty-six songs showcase the early sonic years of the North Carolina-based band. Far more punk than their later recordings, the album found an immediate fanbase.
Guitarist Woody Weatherman comments, “We were just kids when we wrote and recorded these tunes.”
Vocalist/bassist Mike Dean notes, “Making that album was our dream and we worked hard to make it happen because it was the vehicle to allow us to go out and play two hundred shows a year, like the bands we looked up to – BLACK FLAG, BAD BRAINS, D.O.A.”
Originally released in 1984, Eye For An Eye featured the original lineup of Weatherman, Dean, drummer Reed Mullin, and vocalist Eric Eycke. Reissued to incorporate the 1989 EP by Mike Dean (who left the band between 1987-1992), Eye For An Eye is raw in sound but focused on message. The years that followed would see the band rise to worldwide popularity with breakthrough and Billboard-charting releases Blind and Deliverance.
Formed in Raleigh in 1982, Corrosion Of Conformity quickly transformed heavy music. Politically charged and socially aware, the band has influenced countless others and today remains humble about their accomplishments. With over 1.1 million albums sold in the United States, the band continues to find new fans via nonstop touring.
“We had a lot of fun doing it and it’s great to have this album officially back out there again,” says Weatherman. “I had basically written this off as being our sloppy beginner’s effort but listening to it now, I really hear a few songs that hold up well,” adds Dean.
Eye For An Eye tracklisting:
'Tell Me'
'Minds Are Controlled'
'Indifferent'
'Broken Will'
'Rabid Dogs'
'L.S.'
'Rednekkk'
'Coexist'
'Excluded'
'Dark Thoughts'
'Poison Planet'
'What?'
'Negative Outlook'
'Positive Outlook'
'No Drunk'
'College Town'
'Not Safe'
'Eye For An Eye'
'Nothing’s Gonna Change'
'Green Manalishi'
'Eye For An Eye' *
'Center of the World' *
'Citizen' *
'Not For Me' *
'What?' *
'Negative Outlook' *
*Six Songs With Mike Singing EP