In part five of J. Bennett's roundtable with CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, the band discusses the origin and meaning behind the album title »No Cross No Crown«.
Watch the clip at the Nuclear Blast YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0RWW0wGTA
»No Cross No Crown« marks the first recording with vocalist/guitarist Pepper Keenan in over a decade. The record will see worldwide release on January 12th, 2018 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment on CD, digital, vinyl, and cassette formats. Various pre-order bundles are currently available, here: http://www.nuclearblast.com/coc-nocrossnocrown
Pre-order »No Cross No Crown« digitally and receive 'Wolf Named Crow' and 'Cast The First Stone' immediately or stream both tracks, here: http://nblast.de/COCCastTheFirstStone
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Recording in North Carolina with longtime producer John Custer, »No Cross No Crown« sounds as though no time has passed between 2005's »In The Arms Of God« and today. Some of these new jams sound like could've easily been on »Wiseblood« or »Deliverance,« two of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's most revered records. Beefy Southern stompers like 'The Luddite,' 'Little Man,' and 'Forgive Me' are interspersed with melancholy guitar interludes like 'No Cross,' 'Matre's Diem,' and 'Sacred Isolation' - just like SABBATH used to do in the '70s.
Of course, the band recognized that any new CORROSION OF CONFORMITY album with Keenan out front would be analyzed, scrutinized, and held up for comparison with aforementioned gems like »Deliverance« and »Wiseblood«. "That was in the back of my mind the whole time," Keenan acknowledges. "The big thing for me was trying to write songs that have the same attitude and caliber that we were used to doing. I didn't wanna get out there like some 50-year old dude making a mediocre record."
