Metal Anarchy

During a recent appearance on The Sonic Road Podcast, Corrosion Of Conformity bassist Bobby Landgraf discussed the band’s upcoming double album. According to him, the effort is “very conceptual.”

Landgraf said the following on working on the record with drummer Stanton Moore:

“Guitarist/vocalist] Pepper [Keenan] has a home studio in Mississippi, and that was when I was in a room with Stanton. And, man, when I was standing there to Stanton Moore and we had two weeks of living together at the house and just being in each other’s heads and there was nowhere to go — there’s nowhere to go get in trouble; you’re just there working on the stuff. And, yeah, I learned so much from Stanton — to be a bass player, to really hit the right spots and to catch that one. And, man, Stanton is such a big inspiration to me — and Pepper and [guitarist] Woody [Weatherman]. He did [2005’s] ‘In The Arms Of God’ record before [with Corrosion Of Conformity], so he’d already done that, which is a killer record.

To be able to play with Stanton really, I think, elevated my bass-playing game more than… I’m not talking any shit about any other drummers, but Stanton, I believe, really helped me elevate my bass game. So when we wrote all these songs together, we had the best two weeks. We had the big room. The producer was there in the house with us, so we recorded every mistake, every goof-off, every mess-around thing, and some of the stuff came right off the floor.”

He also added the following about the decision to record a double album:

“I will just go with what I watched happen in front of me, which is that we probably did 15, 16, maybe even more, songs at the writing session, so it came time to record and we just did it all. And Pepper’s got a really good relationship with the label. They trust him. He [said], ‘We gotta make this a double record.’ They’re, like, ‘Okay.’ I don’t recall ever hearing a pushback story from the label. Pepper said, ‘This is what I wanna do.’ And they said, ‘Well, then let’s do it.’ And then that just opened it all up to really getting into the recordings.

Pepper has a brilliant concept for the record. For each side, it’s different. The songs on this record go together, the songs on this record go together. And it’s a very conceptual record. [It’s got] beautiful artwork. Fantastic artwork, and it’s amazing. And it will be a serious headphone record. You’ll wanna sit at home and put phones on. Don’t rip off the record by just hearing it on your telephone or your white earbuds.”

[via Blabbermouth]