When you’re an underground hardcore band who have just lost your new vocalist and bassist straight off the back of your biggest hit, you’d be forgiven for thinking things may have peaked for you.
What you certainly wouldn’t have imagined is that your guitarist would step up as frontman, you would reject hardcore, find your way onto a major label and write a song that would be embraced by members of both the biggest metal band in the world and the biggest indie band in the world. As unlikely as it all seems, that’s exactly what happened to Corrosion of Conformity in 1994.
