Corrosion Of Conformity released their new album No Cross No Crown in 2018, which was their first effort with guitarist and vocalist Pepper Keenan since In The Arms Of God in 2005. According to bassist Mike Dean in an interview with WAAF, Corrosion Of Conformity is slowly putting together riffs and lyrics for a new album. Dean says the band isn't in any rush to write a new one and currently plans to focus on new material in 2020, but nothing is set in stone in terms of planning.
"We're going to be touring on into the spring, and [then] I think it's time to get to work on another record. There could be a left turn, because we haven't really gotten to that intersection yet. We do a little bit of jamming live, so we want to incorporate some of those places that we've come up with through improvisation and started solidifying a little bit within the jam. Maybe there's subtle ways that we'll be playing older songs where we get an idea about where we're going — particularly if we use John Green to play drums. Should that happen, there's definitely a few ideas developing. It just depends… there's people squirreling some riffs right now, squirreling some lyrics. I don't see any real drastic departures."
"Maybe a few surprises… It's about generating some content and taking a little step back and seeing what stuff you're going to work on, being a little critical but not trying to prescribe ahead of time what the agenda is, other than we want to make some music that expresses where we're at right now, and we want to make sure it's good [and] that we want to listen to it… If somebody has a real strong Roger Waters-like agenda, that would be cool — we could try that and follow that where it goes — but I think it's really more about, 'Okay, we have this song and that song and that song. How can we make them the best they can be and string them together in a way that reminds you of an album that you heard when you were a kid, when the concept of an album being a unified thing was more prevalent that it is today?'"
Corrosion Of Conformity has been employing drummer John Green in place of drummer Reed Mullin since 2016.
