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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
"Baptize with Gasoline!!!", March 24, 2004
4.5 stars. Mix Black Sabbath with Motorhead, throw in a dash of Jimi Hendrix attitude and riffage, play at high volume for about an hour, and what you have is "Wiseblood" by C.O.C. This is the album that I return to the most. While the previous album, "Deliverance," has many great songs, it also has a modicum of filler material. On "Wiseblood" there is no filler, whatsoever. Their follow-up to this, "America's Volume Dealer," has no filler, but is also radio-ready, and grows tired after a few spins. But "Wiseblood" does not grow old. In fact, the more times I hear it, the more I appreciate the attempt at updating their influences with mid-90s studio production value. Speaking of the Jimi Hendrix vibe on this album, every once in a while Pepper Keenan ends a lyric with a soft "yeah." Like on the song "Redemption City": "So we sing this simple sooooooong! (yeah)" This band has freely admitted to using Black Sabbath as a template for their style, but every once in a while a Motorhead influence comes through. Just check out the riffs and no-nonsense attitude on the song "Wishbone(some tomorrow)." Anyway, this is the album I listen to the most, with "Deliverance" running a distant, but respectable second. "America's Volume Dealer" is good for a few spins or more if you like Heavy Metal with Pop Metal gloss, but "Wiseblood" is their best. Later.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
AMAZING, October 24, 2004
COC is my favorite band and this disc will show you why. There is so much depth and emotion here that you cannot listen without being moved. It is a heavy, swaggering romp into metal euphoria. Fuel (has nothing to do with the Metallica song of the same name) is the best song ever written. Period.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Would you be my queen?", August 18, 2002
Indeed one of the most underrated and unrecognized bands I can think of, Corrosion of Conformity was doing the whole alt/metal thing before most people even heard of it. I had completely fallen in love with C.O.C.'s previous album, 1994's "Deliverance", and I thought then that that album couldn't be topped. Well, I was wrong. Where as "Deliverance" had a laid back emotional feel to it, "Wiseblood" is filled with unrelenting southern blues inspired rock with a dash of heaviness. Pepper Keenan really shines on "Wiseblood", songwriting and vocally speaking, andit's a shame that his talents, and the rest of C.O.C.'s, go unrecognized. "King of the Rotten" starts off the album, and has quickly become one of my all time favorite songs, followed by "Long Whip/Big America" which showcases drummer Reed Mullin's talents. The title track, "Born Again For the Last Time", "The Door", and "Fuel" are excellent tracks, but "Man or Ash" is a standout track that combines C.O.C.'s style with a more darker, sinister tone (is that James Hetfield I hear singing as well or am I hallucinating?). All in all, if you've never listened to C.O.C. before, but you like bands like Down (Pepper's other band with Pantera's Phil Anselmo), Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, or Pantera, then you'll dig C.O.C., and to say that "Wiseblood" and "Deliverance" are must haves is an understatement.
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