CORROSION OF CONFORMITY + THE SWORD announce US tour!

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY will return to US stages this Fall on a co-headlining tour with THE SWORD! The two-week journey will commence on November 2nd in Buffalo, New York and run through November 19th in Pensacola, Florida. Additional support will be provided by Hippie Death Cult.

Comments CORROSION OF CONFORMITY vocalist/guitarist Pepper Keenan, “Well well welll… to all the free thinkers and beer drinkers, the CORROSION train won’t stop. Everywhere all the time! Gonna be ripping with THE SWORD and Hippie Death Cult. See ya on the horizon. Let’s fucking go!”

Artist ticket presales begin today, Tuesday August 25th at 12:00pm ET. Password: COC2026 . General on sale date is Friday, August 28th. Secure your tickets at coc.com/pages/tour. See all confirmed dates below.

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY will be touring in support of their mammoth new double album, Good God / Baad Man, released on April 3rd via Nuclear Blast!

Produced by Grammy award winner Warren Riker (Fugees, Down, Cathedral) and featuring cover art by famed New Orleans artist Scott Guion, Good God / Baad Man was recorded at Blak Shak Studios in Riffissippi, USA, Dockside Studios in Maurice, Louisiana, and Bee Gee Barry Gibb’s home studio in Miami, Florida.

Decibel Magazine crowned Good God / Baad Man “COC’s most ambitious album to date, both in length and material,” adding, “This is COC in 2026, led by two musicians separated geographically, but brought together by the shared love of the almighty riff, and keeping the legacy going…” Wrote Rock Hard Germany, “Good God / Baad Man is a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ – a total work of art – whose multifaceted nature defies easy categorization, yet draws the listener in with an intensity that is all the more profound.”

Blabbermouth concurred, “Best experienced in its languorous, lawless entirety, Good God / Baad Man is by far the most immersive and free-spirited album that CORROSION OF CONFORMITY have ever made. It is also wired to the tits on the same feral, moonshine spirit that has propelled this band through more than four decades of road-hogging commitment to the hard rock cause… this demands to be played as loud as possible and savored like a gift from the gods.” Added Metal Forces, “…further proof that when Metallica transformed into U2 in the ‘90s, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY should have taken the torch. Pepper Keenan, Woody Weatherman, and associates remain criminally underrated and yet somehow revel in being the cool underdogs who continue to strut around town without a care in the world.”

Watch CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s previously released videos for “Baad Man” HERE, “Asleep On The Killing Floor” HERE, “You Or Me” HERE, and “Gimme Some Moore” HERE.

Good God / Baad Man is available on digipak CD, vinyl, and digital formats.

Preview/purchase CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s Good God / Baad Man at THIS LOCATION.

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Live Lineup:

Pepper Keenan – guitar, vocals

Woody Weatherman – guitar

Bobby Landgraf – bass

Nick Shabatura – drums

 CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Recording Lineup:

Pepper Keenan – guitar, vocals

Woody Weatherman – guitar

Stanton Moore – drums

Bobby Landgraf – bass

THE SWORD photo by Ruby Gold

THE SWORD are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their groundbreaking debut album, Age Of Winters and are finishing up their highly anticipated tour with Red Fang on the West Coast.

THE SWORD has handcrafted their own immersive mythology underscored by undeniable and

unpredictable guitar fireworks, cinematic themes, and otherworldly concepts. Since emerging out of Austin, Texas in 2003, the quartet — JD Cronise (vocals, guitar), Bryan Richie (bass, keys), Kyle Shutt (guitar, vocals), and Santiago Vela (drums) — have incited the obsession of a diehard fanbase and the applause of tastemakers such as Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Decibel, and more. The band’s catalog encompasses six full-length albums, namely Age Of Winters (2006), Gods Of The Earth (2008), Warp Riders (2010), Apocryphon (2012), High Country (2015), and Used Future (2018). The group has shared the stage with everyone from Metallica to Lamb Of God and Clutch in addition to selling out headline tours on multiple continents. After a two-year hiatus, the band officially reunited and returned in tandem with the celebration of the 15th anniversary of Warp Riders. Hailed as a “classic” by Consequence, it originally garnered praise from the likes of Premier Guitar, SPIN, and more. Standing out as one of the 21st century’s most important heavy bands, THE SWORD architects the next chapter of their mythology with more touring and subtle hints of new a new music on the horizon.

THE SWORD:

JD Cronise – vocals, guitar

Bryan Richie – bass, keys

Kyle Shutt – guitar, vocals

Santiago Vela – drums

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