Corrosion Of Conformity release new cover of Free’s ‘Fire And Water’

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY have released a brand new single!

The new track, a cover of FREE’s classic Fire And Water, is the first in a new series titled Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions – a special collection of jammed-out interpretations of songs by some of the band’s favourite artists. Originally released in 1970 on the album of the same name, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s version was recorded spontaneously during downtime while working on their forthcoming new full-length (the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s No Cross, No Crown), which is set for release next year. The release comes ahead of the band’s headlining appearance at this year’s Damnation Festival.

Speaking about the cover, guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan comments, “when we were tracking this record, we had a very cool space set up where we would essentially hang in the large room with everything mic’d and everything we needed, including a turntable and a bunch of our favorite records, which we would play and chill out between takes. We were hanging together, and I pulled out a FREE album and Fire And Water popped up. [Drummer] Stanton [Moore] jumped up immediately and said, ‘Who the fuck is that!?.’ He had never heard it before. We were baffled, but it was awesome to us that he had never heard it. He said, ‘let’s cut that!’ I said, ‘man, that’s friggin’ FREE and kind of like holy ground that you don’t fuck with.’ But we started thinking about it and damn Stanton charted it out like the drum wizard he is. I said, ‘I can’t sing like that, man. He’s the king.’ Someone in the room said, ‘just sing it like you,’ so we went for it and had a blast doing it. It was a nice fun break from the recording. It’s nothing too serious, just a bunch of fellas leaning into it, loving the rock. It’s an exercise in restraint. Hope y’all dig it.”

Watch the official music video for Fire And Water here:

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