COC lines up November and December road trip
COC--a.k.a. Corrosion of Conformity--has announced plans to head out on tour next month in support of its Oct. 10 release, "America's Volume Dealer" (Sanctuary). The 16-date November and December run gets underway on Nov. 15 in North Carolina, and will be preceded by a handful of one-off COC performances.
On Oct. 31, COC is scheduled to perform a Halloween show in Colorado Springs, Colo., followed by a Nov. 4 appearance at a radio-station gig in Des Moines, Iowa, according to the group's official website. The North Carolina-based group also has shows scheduled in its home state on Nov. 9 in Fayetteville, and on Nov. 10 in Asheville, according to the site.
Following those performances, COC's tour-proper--featuring opening acts Clutch, 60 Watt Shaman and Karma to Burn--kicks off in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Nov. 15, and will canvas much of the South before ending the month in Arizona on Nov. 30. Six December dates follow, beginning with a Dec. 1 performance in Hollywood, and subsequent stops throughout the West. The current itinerary ends on Dec. 7 in Denver.
In an update posted on COC's website, group-founder and guitarist Woody Weatherman said that the upcoming tour is expected to run right up until Christmas.
"America's Volume Dealer" features the group's single "Congratulation Song," and is the follow-up to ts 1996 album, "Wiseblood" (Columbia). That album's predecessor, 1994's "Deliverance" (Columbia), contained two of the group's most popular songs: "Albatross," which peaked at No. 19 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in January 1995, and "Clean My Wounds," which peaked at No. 19 on that same chart in April 1995.
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