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Eye For An Eye (Plus Six Songs With Mike Singing)

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Recently found a used copy of Eye For An Eye on CD. Hadn't heard this album since high school, but it still holds up. Throughout, Woody Weatherman's guitar grooves like a hardcore punk version of Keith Richards. Short, fast, and very angry, these songs will leave you breathless in an adrenalizing rush. Kind of like Wire's classic debut album Pink Flag, but about 10 times heavier. Latter day COC lost me, but back in 1982, they were the real deal.

Seems to be a love it/hate it opinion of this album. There is no middle ground. Bottom line, if you like 90's and on era COC, you probably won't like this, but fans of Bad Brains and Minor Threat should not miss this one.

"Eye for an Eye" is the first COC album, and is very different from the rest of COC's albums. This album (to me) defines "hardcare/punk/metal" of the early 80's, along with MDC, DRI,Life Sentence,Discharge, Raw Power, etc.etc.etc..
Unlike someone elses review of this album, that claimed it was "garage band" like, this album is pure agression, semi-professional sounding...(I mean the guitar feedback is phenominal!!!)(It adds so much to the feeling of the song!!)
Every instrument is played flawlessly..the overdubbed guitar solo's (ala black sabbath) are great!
All in all, its noisy, fast, and heavy....and compared to most of the crap that is out now...this blows it away!
BUY IT!!

If you're in search of the perfect balance between heavy metal and punk-rock/hardcore, 'Eye for an eye' is what you need! Just believe me, this is an amazing "heavy metal" album with a typical hardcore spirit (Frontman Eric Eycke is great in it). Take a look to the first song and you'll see what I mean... Really outstanding. To me, it's just as if 'Black Sabbath' decided to sound like 'Black Flag'... Probably one of the most important hardcore album of the early eighties. One should consider "Eye for an eye" as their "kill'em all" album... No less than that!

Before C.O.C. started working their way up to rock-stardom, they were an incredible hardcore band from North Carolina. "Eye for an eye" is their best work by far: an unrestrained burst of anger and energy, taking the lead from Black Flag's "Damaged" and mixing Greg Ginn's guitar ferocity with Sabbath-like riffs. This formula was perfected in their following records, "Animosity" and "Technocracy"... then they lost it! Get this CD (including the excellent "Six songs with Mike singing" EP), pull out your old bandana from the closet and surrender yourself to the thrashing rage of Corrosion Of Conformity!!!

not until recently have i bought this one again.i had this way back and it was the album i held as like a standard for raw hardcore at its best.the first of the coc albums and a album that combined some brains with walls of feedback.but after buying there last album was i just so [mad] at where coc ended up .they ended being more af what bands like metallica ended doing just being in some of comfort zone seddleing for some easy riff madness.(chunk a chunk)with nothing really important to say or music to offer. but this first album is full of rocking hardore at its rawest and some of the best anthems of punk/hardcore still today like positive outlook and nothings going to change and you cant forget minds are controlled.so if you are into the true sounds of hardcore and punk and you just cant belive how music has become so bad.this just might inspire you to use feedback in a good way.but if you are into what coc are now there is no chance you will like this.!!!go find some prong or pantara or something like that.(its like they should of changed there name after technocracy!!)so if you like this search for mike deans and woddy weathermens side project that came out in 89 called snakenation.a album out of print but the same vibe as this..also find animosty there 2nd album the other great album of the band that is really no more!...to bad!!!

EYE FOR AN EYE IS THE RAWEST, MOST AGGRESSIVE WORK THAT COC HAS EVER BROUGHT TO THE EARS OF ITS' LISTENERS...BUT YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE UTTERLY RETARDED TO PAY $65 FOR IT!

I already wrote a review a few years a go...which is still posted, but I must now say that I am even more disgusted by the price that is being asked for this disc:

Places like ValleyCD should be shut down for pricing a bands CD for over 200 dollars...going against exactly what the music stood for at the time!!!

What's even more sad is the fact that there is going to be someone who would actually spend that much on the disc!!! I remember buying this tape in the 80's for around 4 or 5 dollars...

Stop feeding into capitalistic scumbags by purchasing amazing music that stood for freedom of self without opression for what most of the individuals who listened to the music could not afford in the first place!!!

I remember listening to some of these tracks repeatedly in 7th grade while skating around wet parking lots with my friend. We used to look at the cover of "Six Songs with Mike Singing" (cassete version) and think he (Mike, I think) was soo hardcore, it looked like he had glue (or doo doo) in his hair. About five years later I saw them open for Rollins Band and they sounded like a bland heavy metal band. Needless to say, Mike wasn't singing anymore.

Corrosion of Conformity's debut album is nothing short of an overlooked classic. "Eye For an Eye" is somehow pure hardcore and much more than that simultaneously. Is it the Sabbath-esque groove of some of the songs? Is it the well above-average musicianship of the rhythm section? Yeah, I guess it is.
To me, "Eye For an Eye" has always sounded like the perfect blend of Black Flag and Black Sabbath, with some definite early thrash influence ("Dirty Rotten" LP, anyone?). As "metal" as that combination might sound, COC keeps it punk, thanks to some of the best sloppy vocals I've ever heard and Woody's sqealing, random-note solos.
So, here's an album that shifts effortlessly from muscular, heavy slow parts, to circle-pit inducing thrash within the same song, laced with feedback, raw production and pretty smart lyrics. Because there's so much metal influence on this album (they cover a dang Judas Priest song, for God's sake), you know that COC's pure hardcore days were probably pretty much over by the time they finished recording, but at least they left this for fans of old hardcore punk before turning into lackluster metal.

With some guy named Eric Eycke on "vocals" this crossover punk/metal effort comes close to masterpiece status. The songs are as fast as they are short. Reed Mullin was/is one of the best drummers out there, and Woody Weatherman does his best Sabbath on speed rendition, not to mention Mike Dean the little monster on bass....I loved it in 84, its still better than 95% of the [junk] the corporate gods pass off as hardcore today!