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COC and The Sword will be co-headlining.

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Corrosion Of Conformity and The Sword will co-headline a 14-date US tour this November, with Hippie Death Cult opening. The run starts November 2 at Town Ballroom in Buffalo and finishes November 19 at Vinyl Music Hall in Pensacola, Florida, taking in Asbury Park, Hampton Beach, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Birmingham along the way. General tickets go on sale Friday, August 28. And Corrosion Of Conformity are out behind a double album with an origin story you won’t guess.

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Every date on the tour

Fourteen shows, November 2 through November 19.

Nov. 02 – Town Ballroom – Buffalo, NY
Nov. 03 – Asbury Lanes – Asbury Park, NJ
Nov. 04 – Hampton Beach Casino – Hampton Beach, NH
Nov. 06 – Elevation 27 – Virginia Beach, VA
Nov. 07 – Port City Blitz Festival – Wilmington, NC * COC only
Nov. 08 – Capitol City Music Hall – Harrisburg, PA
Nov. 10 – The Sovereign – St. Louis, MO
Nov. 11 – Granada – Lawrence, KS
Nov. 13 – The Apollo Theatre – Belvidere, IL
Nov. 14 – The Vogue – Indianapolis, IN
Nov. 15 – Bogart’s – Cincinnati, OH
Nov. 17 – The Senate – Columbia, SC
Nov. 18 – Workplay – Birmingham, AL
Nov. 19 – Vinyl Music Hall – Pensacola, FL

‡ Corrosion Of Conformity only. The Wilmington date is a festival appearance — The Sword and Hippie Death Cult aren’t on it. Worth knowing before you buy.

Tickets: a presale runs Wednesday August 26 through Thursday August 27. General on sale is Friday, August 28 at 10am local time.

Pepper Keenan’s own announcement was characteristically brief and characteristically him — a shout to the free thinkers and beer drinkers, a promise that the Corrosion train won’t stop, and a note that it’s going to be a ripper with The Sword and Hippie Death Cult. He signed off with something we can’t print.

The Barry Gibb thing

Here’s the detail nobody else is going to lead with, and it’s genuinely one of the strangest facts in heavy music this year.

Corrosion Of Conformity are touring Good God / Baad Man, the double album they released April 3 via Nuclear Blast. It was produced by Grammy winner Warren Riker — whose credits include the Fugees, Cathedral and Down — with cover art from New Orleans artist Scott Guion.

It was recorded in three places. Blak Shak Studios. Dockside Studios in Maurice, Louisiana.

And Barry Gibb’s home studio in Miami.

A Bee Gee’s house. A sludge metal double album partly tracked in the room where the man who wrote “Stayin’ Alive” works.

Nobody in the release explains how that came about, and honestly it’s better as a mystery. But if you ever wanted proof that the New Orleans and Southern heavy scene operates on connections nobody outside it can map, there it is.

The Riker connection is less surprising and more telling — he also worked on Down, Keenan’s other band, whose first full album in nineteen years arrives in November. Same producer, same orbit, two records inside eight months. The man is having a year.

Corrosion Of Conformity have a new rhythm section

Two recent additions worth knowing about before you turn up.

Bobby “Rock” Landgraf is on bass. Nick Shabatura is on drums — and his previous credits include the band Desecrate The Hour and, delightfully, a Chicago-based Nirvana tribute act called Smells Like Nirvana.

That’s a hell of a career jump. From playing “Lithium” in Chicago bars to holding down the back end for one of the most important American heavy bands of the last forty years.

For context on why that matters: Corrosion Of Conformity’s first four records left a permanent mark across three separate scenes. Eye For An Eye in 1984 and Animosity in 1985 are hardcore-crossover underground classics. Blind in 1991 and Deliverance in 1994 pushed them into Southern-fried metal territory and made them genuinely significant — Deliverance in particular is one of the foundation stones of the whole NOLA sludge and Southern heavy tradition.

By the time No Cross No Crown arrived nearly a quarter century later, they’d become legends to two generations of punk, metal and rock fans at once — which almost nobody in the history of this music manages.

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The Sword are having their own anniversary year

The co-headline billing here is genuinely earned, because The Sword are in the middle of a moment too.

They’re currently celebrating the 20th anniversary of Age Of Winters, their 2006 debut, and finishing a West Coast run with Red Fang before this tour starts.

For anyone who came in later: The Sword emerged from Austin in 2003 and built an immersive, self-contained mythology on top of enormous riffs — cinematic themes, otherworldly concepts, and the kind of guitar work that turned them into a critical favourite well outside metal circles. Rolling Stone, the Washington Post and Decibel have all been in their corner.

Six albums: Age Of Winters (2006), Gods Of The Earth (2008), Warp Riders (2010), Apocryphon (2012), High Country (2015) and Used Future (2018). They’ve shared stages with Metallica, Lamb Of God and Clutch, and sold out headline runs on multiple continents.

They went on hiatus for two years and officially reunited alongside the 15th anniversary of Warp Riders — a record Consequence has since called a classic.

The lineup is JD Cronise on vocals and guitar, Bryan Richie on bass and keys, Kyle Shutt on guitar and vocals, and Santiago Vela on drums.

If your entry point into heavy music was riff-first, volume-forward, Sabbath-descended rock, this is your bill. Both bands trace straight back to the same foundational lineage, and they’ve each spent decades doing something distinct with it.

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Don’t skip Hippie Death Cult

Opening every date bar Wilmington, and worth turning up early for.

The Portland trio deal in genuinely heavy psychedelic doom — big fuzz, big groove, and the kind of low-end that makes a small room feel structurally unsafe. They sit comfortably in the same world as the essential stoner and doom canon without sounding like a tribute to it.

Three bands, one bill, and not a wasted slot on it. If you’re mapping out the rest of the year’s heavy touring, this one belongs on the list.

TL;DR

• What’s announced: Corrosion Of Conformity and The Sword will co-headline 14 US dates in November 2026, with Hippie Death Cult supporting.
• When: November 2 in Buffalo, New York through November 19 in Pensacola, Florida.
• The exception: the November 7 Wilmington, North Carolina show is Port City Blitz Festival and features Corrosion Of Conformity only.
• Tickets: presale runs August 26–27, general on sale Friday August 28 at 10am local time.
• What COC are touring: Good God / Baad Man, a double album released April 3 via Nuclear Blast, produced by Warren Riker and recorded partly at Barry Gibb’s home studio in Miami.
• What The Sword are marking: the 20th anniversary of their 2006 debut Age Of Winters.

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AI-generated songs are no longer welcome on Australia’s main music charts.

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A deeply personal track inspired by finding something to hold onto during difficult times

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Last December, while shockwaves from Geese’s album Getting Killed rippled through the world, that band’s frontman Cameron Winter played what was apparently a momentous solo show at the storied New York venue Carnegie Hall. Winter played songs from his 2024 solo album Heavy Metal, as well as some unreleased ones. Paul Thomas Anderson, who was a few months away from finally winning his Oscars for One Battle After Another, was on hand to film the show. Today, PTA finally announces his long-awaited concert film Cameron Winter At Carnegie Hall. It’s coming to theaters this fall, but it’s not getting a wide release — not yet, anyway. Instead, the movie is going on tour.

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Looking to sharpen your knowledge of martial arts and contribute to a worthy cause? As many readers already know, Neill Jameson — frontman of Krieg and longtime Decibel contributor — recently lost his wife, Nikki, after her long battle with cancer. Neill now faces the tremendous task of rebuilding his life and being a single father to his daughter, Vale. And although the last couple years have overwhelming time in Neill’s life, a community of sorts has formed with people eagerly following his story and donating to his family’s GoFundMe page. As part of that community, a few great guys have decided to hold an event to help Neill and provide a great learning experience around Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

On Sunday, October 4, black belts Danny Katz, David Grossman and Dean Lewis will hold a seminar at 11AM with proceeds going to Neill and his daughter. They will hold the event at Miloki Flow Jiu Jitsu, located at 950 Montgomery Ave in Narberth, Pennsylvania (just outside of Philadelphia). Heath Rave (Lotus Thrones and ex-Wolvhammer) designed the cool poster for event, which excellently combines the theme with the extreme metal aesthetic.

Danny Katz, who owns of Heelhookvlt and does vocals for Fragile Body and Unhealed, had this to say about the event:

“Neil Jameson has been an important figure in underground music for decades; fronting bands like Krieg and helping to expose lesser known bands through his prolific writing career. Recently Neill suffered the tragic loss of his partner Nikki to cancer, and has to raise their autistic daughter Vale by himself. On October 4, we will be sponsoring a seminar with all proceeds going to help Neill through this immensely difficult time and care for his daughter. Please come support. Where music and grappling overlap at their best is when community is created. Through this seminar we hope to give that to Neill and Vale.”

Dave Grossman, who readers may know from Rosetta or New Miserable Experience, added that:

“The thing that draws so many of us into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and underground music scenes is the community. At their best, both of these scenes support their own like very few communities that have ever existed. Danny, Dean, Heath and myself knew that we needed to support Neill in this challenging time. While Neill is not a part of our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu community we knew that community would rise to the occasion to support him, additionally there is a strong community within Brazilian Jiu Jitsu that love underground music and more specifically Neill’s work. Art has a way of impacting and changing people’s lives, this is our chance at supporting an artist that has given so much to so many.”

Honestly, even if the event wasn’t a charity benefit, it sounds like a fantastic opportunity to learn from a few masters of their craft, including Dean Lewis, who trained under Lucas Lepri and is a No-Gi world champion. And it’s an added bonus that these gentlemen are all part of the underground metal scene or are passionate devotees. So if you’re in the greater Philly area and don’t have plans on October 4, you should definitely check this out.

Here’s that information one more time:

Sunday, October 4 at 11AM

$20 Donation

Miloki Flow Jiu Jitsu
950 Montgomery Ave.
Narberth, PA 19072

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