Reed Mullin, Corrosion Of Conformity’s drummer, welcomed us with liveliness, excellent humor and a firm handshake when we met him on the occasion of this year’s Motocultor Festival (France). The man immediately puts us at ease, as if we were long-time friends. When we ask him how he’s doing, he answers: “I’m alright, man! I’m just taking a little bit of diner because we gotta play soon. I’m a drummer so if I eat to much, I’ll be playing a doom set each time I’m supposed to play upbeat, so. How are you doing?” After assuring him that we’re doing great indeed, we ask him what he’s intending to do during the festival. He answers jokingly: “Actually the bands I want to see are coming up, like Corrosion Of Conformity!” He immediately goes on: “Oh yeah my man, well there you go daddy! What was the name of the band that was playing the folk?” When we tell him that would be Stille Volk, he says: “OK, that was pretty wild! They must be from around here! Everybody knew every lyrics! They’re all ‘dun dudun dudun HO!’ [laughs]”
Corrosion Of Conformity released a self-titled album this year, their first in seven years. “The album is doing great, yeah”, says Mullin. “Anyway, it’s been going really well, because Pepper wasn’t singing people didn’t know what to expect, but the reactions’ been pretty good, especially back in the States. You guys didn’t get to see us or didn’t know about the older days with Animosity and some of the old punk, hardcore stuff. Back in the States people saw us like Suicidal [Tendencies], Discharge, Black Flag and all those bands.” It is indeed Corrosion Of Conformity’s first album entirely conceived and recorded as a trio since Animosity, in 1985, with a line-up comprising of Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman and Reed Mullin. “Pepper’s going down”, says Mullin. “I love to be a trio again, that’s how we started 30 years ago. How old are you, son?” he asks Stan – who happens to be in his early twenties. He then goes on: “So we’ve been playing for 8 years when you were born! We’re old. So we’ve been around for a while, initially we would play punk rock, rock’n’roll and stuff… For us to play together was natural, it just came like that. Then things happened so quick, people are like : ‘Oh, you’ve got a record!’, you’re like ‘OK’, then you’re friend with Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters and Nirvana who was like: ‘Hey, how do you guys got back together? You got to record in my studio aaaaaaah!’ He was all freaked-out! [laughs]”
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