This band from Raleigh, North Carolina has changed its musical style more times than you can shake a stick at, starting with straight hardcore on Eye for an Eye and Animosity, then switching over to thrash metal, and then...well, you'll see.

"Eye for an Eye + Six Songs with Mike Singing"

1. "Tell Me" (3:27)
2. "Minds are Controlled" (1:35)
3. "Indifferent" (1:18)
4. "Broken Will" (1:34)
5. "Rabid Dogs" (0:41)
6. "L.S." (2:15)
7. "Rednekkk" (1:19)
8. "Coexist" (2:51)
9. "Excluded" (1:13)
10. "Dark Thoughts" (1:50)
11. "Poison Planet" (1:25)
12. "What?" (2:33)
13. "Negative Outlook" (0:53)
14. "Positive Outlook" (2:13)
15. "No Drunk" (0:22)
16. "College Town" (2:05)
17. "Not Safe" (2:31)
18. "Eye for an Eye" (1:20)
19. "Nothing's Gonna Change" (1:12)
20. "The Green Manalishi (with the Two-Pronged Crown)"--unlisted (2:59)
21. "Eye for an Eye" (1:14)
22. "Center of the World" (0:29)
23. "Citizen" (0:49)
24. "Not for Me" (1:08)
25. "What(?)" (2:26)
26. "Negative Outlook" (0:55)

Your typical hardcore album, with a billion songs averaging about one minute each. A real surprise here is the unlisted track "Green Manalishi" (a cover of the Fleetwood Mac song, although you're probably more familiar with the Judas Priest version.) The last six songs are from the "Six Songs with Mike Singing" EP and are a helluva lot more raw than the rest.

"Animosity"

1. "Loss for Words" (4:05)
2. "Mad World" (1:53)
3. "Consumed" (2:52)
4. "Holier" (2:26)
5. "Positive Outlook" (3:04)
6. "Prayer" (2:25)
7. "Intervention" (2:25)
8. "Kiss of Death" (1:31)
9. "Hungry Child" (1:19)
10. "Animosity"--instrumental (4:16)

An excellent hardcore album, similar in style to Cryptic Slaughter, with a few progressive change-ups here and there (especially on the instrumental title track.)

"Technocracy"

1. "Technocracy" (3:12)
2. "Hungry Child" (1:15)
3. "Happily Ever After" (4:19)
4. "Crawling" (4:20)
5. "Ahh Blugh (Milking the Sick Farce)" (0:30)
6. "Intervention" (2:10)
7. "Technocracy"--rerecording (3:26)
8. "Crawling"--rerecording (4:58)
9. "Happily Ever After"--rerecording (4:33)

This EP was recorded in 1986, a nice mix of hardcore and thrash. The last three songs are rerecordings with the bass player singing, no idea when they were recorded.

"Blind"

1. "These Shrouded Temples..."--instrumental (2:37)
2. "Damned for All Time" (5:55)
3. "Dance of the Dead" (4:30)
4. "Buried" (5:19)
5. "Break the Circle" (4:11)
6. "Painted Smiling Face" (4:22)
7. "Mine Are The Eyes of God" (5:00)
8. "Shallow Ground"--instrumental (2:23)
9. "Vote with a Bullet" (3:27)
10. "Great Purification" (4:35)
11. "White Noise" (4:19)
12. "Echoes in the Well" (5:32)
13. "...Remain"--instrumental (0:28)

This was COC's crossover album and what got them onto Headbanger's Ball. A massive thrash attack, and progressive-sounding to boot! Definitely one of the best CDs of 1991. "Vote with a Bullet" MUST be played at full volume!

"Deliverance"

1. "Heaven's Not Overflowing" (5:02)
2. "Albatross" (5:12)
3. "Clean My Wounds" (3:33)
4. "Without Wings" (1:54)
5. "Broken Man" (4:54)
6. "Senor Limpio" (3:52)
7. "Mano de Mono" (1:36)
8. "Seven Days" (4:57)
9. "#2121313" (1:01)
10. "My Grain" (3:20)
11. "Deliverance" (4:21)
12. "Shake Like You" (4:17)
13. "Shelter" (3:25)
14. "Pearls Before Swine" (6:45)

Oh my God! What happened? They've gone and changed their style AGAIN, now sounding more like a cross between Lynyrd Skynyrd and Gruntruck. It's okay music-wise, I suppose, but not really my style, and a real letdown after waiting years for further progressiveness in the style of "Blind". I've listened to their new CD Wiseblood and it is more or less the same. What a loss.

Some time later, 3 guys from this band formed a side project called Down, also featuring Pantera's Phil Anselmo.

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