Bring Back the Fuzzy Sound — COC on Why Imperfect Recordings Are Better | The Sonic Road

Pepper Keenan, Woody Weatherman, and Bobby Landgraf of Corrosion of Conformity on one of the defining creative decisions behind Good God / Baad Man — bringing back raw, imperfect, human recordings and deliberately pushing back against the perfectly clean, digitally precise sound that dominates modern rock production. Pepper talks about leaving the sour notes in, keeping demo guitar tracks and cassette vocals on the final record because nothing recorded afterward was better, and why the imperfections in records like Led Zeppelin's are exactly what makes them great. "No Zeppelin album is perfect. Or is it? It's imperfectly perfect. The imperfections make it perfect." The approach on Good God / Baad Man was deliberate — fuzzy, real, and recorded the way rock and roll was always meant to sound. A band in a room, playing loud, with no isolation, no control room, and no interest in making something that sounds like it was assembled on a computer. This clip is from Episode 33 of The Sonic Road Podcast, recorded backstage at The Roxy at Mahalls in Lakewood, Ohio on May 10th, 2026 — hours before COC's show in support of Good God / Baad Man, out now on Nuclear Blast Records. 🎵 ORDER GOOD GOD / BAAD MAN: Nuclear Blast → nuclearblast.com COC Website → coc.com 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to The Sonic Road Podcast: thesonicroad.com | linktr.ee/thesonicroad 📲 FOLLOW THE SONIC ROAD PODCAST: @thesonicroad 📲 FOLLOW COC: Instagram → @coccabal | TikTok → @corrosivecabal Website → coc.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #CorrosionOfConformity #GoodGodBaadMan #HeavyRock #TheSonicRoadPodcast #NuclearBlast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━