Highlight Reel | Backstage with COC — Pepper, & Woody on Making Good God/Baad Man | The Sonic Road

Beau caught up with Pepper Keenan, Woody Weatherman, and Bobby Landgraf of Corrosion of Conformity backstage at The Roxy at Mahalls in Lakewood, Ohio on May 10th, 2026 — just hours before their show — for this highlight reel from Episode 33 of The Sonic Road Podcast. The full episde drops this Friday May 15th at 7:00AM EST In under four minutes, the band covers more ground than most interviews do in an hour: 🎸 Why Good God / Baad Man sounds like a COC greatest hits record — and why that was completely intentional 🎵 The heavy underground surge of 2026 — Acid Bath bringing old timers back, new fans showing up, parents bringing their kids to the front row 📀 The vinyl sold out fast and the label didn't press enough — a good problem to have 🎯 Why the entire double album was sequenced before they ever turned the amps on — "You don't write a novel and then decide what chapters go where" 👖 No slippers, no La-Z-Boys, no pajamas — this is how COC makes a record 🏚️ The hidden Mississippi writing retreat — no clock, no hotel, sleeping on the floor, barbecuing, rewriting lyrics on the back porch at 3AM 📅 Why 2026 is shaping up to be one of the best years for rock albums in recent memory 👂 How John Custer's severe tinnitus diagnosis led to Warren Riker producing — and why it made the album better 🎚️ Recording with no isolation and no control room — mattresses against cabinets and no way to know if a take was good until you rewound the tape 🤖 Human music vs AI — why the imperfections on this record are the whole point, and why some demo tracks and cassette vocals made the final cut 🎵 Handcuff County recorded live in one take while vamping in Mississippi — and why they kept the demo 🎤 Playing five new songs tonight and fans are already singing along — and talk of playing the whole album live someday 🎵 ORDER GOOD GOD / BAAD MAN — Nuclear Blast: https://coc.com Nuclear Blast Records: nuclearblast.com 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to The Sonic Road Podcast: https://linktr.ee/thesonicroad 📲 FOLLOW THE SONIC ROAD PODCAST: @thesonicroad thesonicroad.com 📲 FOLLOW CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: coc.com | On Instagram: @coccabal ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Everything Clicking — The Momentum Behind Good God/Baad Man 00:05 It Sounds Like a COC Greatest Hits Record — By Design 00:22 The Heavy Underground Surge of 2026 — Legacy and New Fans 00:54 The Vinyl Sold Out Fast — The Label Didn't Make Enough 01:12 Sequenced Before the Amps Were On — Why It Matters 01:39 No Slippers, No La-Z-Boys — This Is How COC Makes Records 01:47 The Hidden Mississippi Writing Retreat — No Clock, No Rules 02:14 2026 Is a Big Year — One Killer Rock Album After Another 02:35 John Custer's Tinnitus and Why Warren Riker Changed Everything 02:53 No Isolation, No Control Room — Mattresses Against Cabinets 03:12 Human Music vs AI — Imperfection Is the Whole Point 03:41 Handcuff County — One Take, Live in the Room, Demo Made the Record 03:45 Playing the Whole Album Live Someday — Already Talking About It ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #CorrosionOfConformity #COC #PepperKeenan #WoodyWeatherman #BobbyLandgraf #GoodGodBaadMan #NuclearBlast #HeavyMetal #SludgeMetal #SouthernRock #StantonMoore #TheSonicRoadPodcast #RockPodcast #HeavyRock #NewMetal2026 #BestAlbums2026 #MusicInterview #HumanMusic #RockMusic2026 #LakewoodOhio ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow The Sonic Road Podcast on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook & X: @thesonicroad Subscribe on Youtube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts: https://linktr.ee/thesonicroad