Corrosion of Conformity’s Next Album Will Have a “Brilliant Concept” Says Bassist Bobby Landgraf
One of the most anticipated albums of 2026 has got to be the next release from Corrosion of Conformity. They haven’t put out a new record since 2018’s No Cross No Crown and knowing they got Stanton Moore on drums, this thing is going to fucking slap.
During a recent interview with The Sonic Road Podcast (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), bassist Bobby Landgraf spent some time talking about the band’s plans for the coming new year. And while some of the conversation stayed on the U.S. tour with Clutch that’s apparently taking place this April, he shared some deets about the new record.
“[Corrosion of Conformity guitarist/vocalist] Pepper [Keenan] has a home studio in Mississippi, and that was when I was in a room with Stanton. And, man, when I was standing there to Stanton Moore and we had two weeks of living together at the house and just being in each other’s heads and there was nowhere to go — there’s nowhere to go get in trouble; you’re just there working on the stuff. And, yeah, I learned so much from Stanton — to be a bass player, to really hit the right spots and to catch that one. And, man, Stanton is such a big inspiration to me — and Pepper and Woody [Weatherman, Corrosion of Conformity guitarist]. He did [2005’s] ‘In The Arms Of God’ record before [with Corrosion of Conformity], so he’d already done that, which is a killer record.
“To be able to play with Stanton really, I think, elevated my bass-playing game more than… I’m not talking any shit about any other drummers, but Stanton, I believe, really helped me elevate my bass game. So when we wrote all these songs together, we had the best two weeks. We had the big room. The producer was there in the house with us, so we recorded every mistake, every goof-off, every mess-around thing, and some of the stuff came right off the floor.”
As for what’s making Corrosion of Conformity release a double album in the year of our lord 2025, Landgraf said it was based on Pepper’s idea for the release.
“I will just go with what I watched happen in front of me, which is that we probably did 15, 16, maybe even more, songs at the writing session, so it came time to record and we just did it all. And Pepper’s got a really good relationship with the label. They trust him. He [said], ‘We gotta make this a double record.’ They’re, like, ‘Okay.’ I don’t recall ever hearing a pushback story from the label. Pepper said, ‘This is what I wanna do.’ And they said, ‘Well, then let’s do it.’ And then that just opened it all up to really getting into the recordings.
“Pepper has a brilliant concept for the record. For each side, it’s different. The songs on this record go together, the songs on this record go together. And it’s a very conceptual record. [It’s got] beautiful artwork. Fantastic artwork, and it’s amazing. And it will be a serious headphone record. You’ll wanna sit at home and put phones on. Don’t rip off the record by just hearing it on your telephone or your white earbuds.”
