THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Corrosion Of Conformity recorded part of their new double album at Barry Gibb's home studio in Miami, and now they're taking it out on a two-week co-headline run with The Sword *. Fourteen dates, November 2026, with Hippie Death Cult opening the whole thing *, †. Pepper Keenan's pitch: "Well, well, well… to all the free thinkers and beer drinkers, the CORROSION train won't stop. Everywhere all the time!" *
THE DETAILS
- Opens November 2 at Town Ballroom in Buffalo and wraps November 19 at Vinyl Music Hall in Pensacola *
- The November 7 Port City Blitz Festival stop in Wilmington, North Carolina is COC-only *
- Blabbermouth presale runs August 26 at 2 p.m. EDT through August 27, code BBMCOCSWORD; general on-sale August 28 at 10 a.m. local *
- COC are behind "Good God / Baad Man," out April 3 via Nuclear Blast, produced by Warren Riker with cover art by Scott Guion *
- Bobby "Rock" Landgraf and Nick Shabatura are the newest members *
- The Sword — JD Cronise, Bryan Richie, Kyle Shutt, Santiago Vela — are marking 20 years of "Age Of Winters" *
SUPPORT
Hippie Death Cult opens all dates *, †.
WHY IT MATTERS
ANNIVERSARY: "Age Of Winters" turns 20, and The Sword are playing it out after coming back from a two-year hiatus *. Odd wrinkle — a Southern sludge tour partly tracked in a Bee Gee's house.