Corrosion of Conformity Interview — Pepper Keenan, Woody & Bobby on Good God / Baad Man | Ep. 33

Pepper Keenan, Woody Weatherman, and Bobby Landgraf from Corrosion of Conformity sit down with host Beau for an in-person interview at The Roxy in Lakewood, Ohio on May 10th, 2026 — before their show on the Good God / Baad Man tour. This is C.O.C.'s first album in eight years, out now on Nuclear Blast Records. We go deep on the making of the double album — recording with no isolation, no control room, and no clock. Pepper breaks down how Stanton Moore's drumming forced him to rewrite 60% of his lyrics, why some demo tracks and cassette vocals made the final album, and how the band had the entire track sequence mapped out before they even turned the amps on. Woody and Bobby talk about cutting Handcuff County live in one take and keeping the demo. We also get into recording at Barry Gibb's studio in Miami, the six-foot oil painting that became the album cover, sessions at Electric Lady Studios and Dockside Studio, the return of Stanton Moore, Warren Riker producing for the first time, and the legacy of Reed Mullin. Beyond the album, we talk about the surge of rock and heavy music in 2026, new fans showing up at shows, the Acid Bath reunion effect, and why making a human-sounding record matters more than ever. Albums and topics covered in this episode: — Corrosion of Conformity: Good God / Baad Man (April 2026, Nuclear Blast) — The making of a double album with no isolation and no control room — Stanton Moore's return and his impact on the record — Warren Riker producing C.O.C. for the first time — Recording at Barry Gibb's home studio in Miami — Demo tracks and cassette vocals on the final album — Handcuff County — written and recorded live in one take — Sessions at Electric Lady Studios and Dockside Studio — The legacy of Reed Mullin — Mike Dean's departure and Bobby Landgraf stepping in — The Acid Bath reunion and the 2026 rock resurgence — AI, perfection, and why human-made music matters Good God / Baad Man tracklist: Good God? / Final Dawn You Or Me Gimme Some Moore The Handler Bedouin's Hand Run For Your Life Baad Man Lose Yourself Mandra Sonos Asleep On The Killing Floor Handcuff County Swallowing The Anchor Brickman Forever Amplified Subscribe to The Sonic Road Podcast newsletter for exclusive content, unaired stories, and deep dives you won't find on YouTube. Sign up free: www.thesonicroad.com FIND CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: Website: coc.com Bandcamp: corrosion-of-conformity.bandcamp.com 🎵 ORDER GOOD GOD / BAAD MAN: Nuclear Blast → nuclearblast.com Currently on tour across North America with Whores and Crobot. Check tour dates at coc.com. FOLLOW THE SONIC ROAD PODCAST: @thesonicroad Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | X linktr.ee/thesonicroad 📲 FOLLOW THE SONIC ROAD PODCAST: Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | X → @thesonicroad Website → thesonicroad.com 📲 FOLLOW CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: Website → coc.com Instagram → @coccabal TikTok → @corrosivecabal ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Intro — A Big One: Beau's Longtime Love of COC 00:42 Backstage at Mahalls — The Interview Begins 01:16 "You Or Me" Breaking Through & the Momentum Behind the Record 02:56 The Heavy Underground Surge of 2026 — Acid Bath & New Fans 04:33 "Gimme Some Moore" — Written Like They Were 16 Again 05:42 Why a Double Album in 2026 — Two Hemispheres, Two Worlds 07:47 Sequenced Before the Amps Were On — The Lost Art of Long Form 10:20 Real Studio Energy — Sweating, Laughing, Drinking Beer 12:32 The Hidden Mississippi Writing Retreat — Two Years Getting Ready 13:32 The Six-Foot Oil Painting — Album Art Made During the Sessions 15:03 Bringing Stanton Moore Back — The Easy Choice After Reed 16:05 Stanton's Drumming Caused Pepper to Rewrite 60% of His Lyrics 17:08 Stanton Moore's Genius — Tabbing Drums Like a Grocery List 18:12 John Custer's Tinnitus & Why Warren Riker Changed Everything 19:19 Riker Breaking the Rules — Mics on the Floor, Confidence in the Room 20:19 No Isolation, No Control Room — Mattresses Against Cabinets 21:47 Dockside Studio — Drums and Bass Tracked Live to Tape 23:32 No Clock, No Hotel — Back Porch at 3AM, This Is Rock and Roll 24:47 Demo Tracks and Cassette Vocals That Made the Final Record 26:46 Shoeboxes of Unreleased COC — Cassette Tapes from Electric Lady 27:32 Recording at Electric Lady — Deliverance, Wise Blood & Superunknown 29:14 Handcuff County in One Take, Lose Yourself, Brickman & More 31:37 Five New Songs Tonight — Fans Already Singing Along 32:18 Soundcheck Calls ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #CorrosionOfConformity #COC #PepperKeenan #WoodyWeatherman #BobbyLandgraf #GoodGodBaadMan #NuclearBlas