This was only my third time seeing Corrosion of Conformity and I had not seen them since Blackest of the Black in May of 2017, which was before the release of their latest album No Cross No Crown almost exactly a year before this show.

I never really listened to enough Crowbar to get into them but wanted to show up a little early to check them out simply based on the Jimmy Bower/Kirk Windstein connection from the band Down. Unfortunately I could not recruit anyone to go with me once again so I flew solo to Brick By Brick after downing some Fat Tire. When I arrived there were a handful of people hanging out near the entrance and as I walked closer I realized the person I was about to pass was Pepper Keenan. He turned and looked at me so I said “Oh Fuck Yeah” and we fist bumped.

I had not been to Brick By Brick for some time so I forgot how small that place is. It only holds about 400 people. Once inside I grabbed a tallboy PBR and watched the remainder of Crowbar’s set. I also ingested the two gummy edibles I brought with me in hopes of timing the onset to coincide with COC’s set. Crowbar had some good grooves but I just did not know the songs.

After I had secured another tallboy ZZ Top’s “La Grange” started making it’s way out of the speakers to signify the end of the intermission. This is a fantastic song to take the stage to. As I looked around the room everyone seemed to be in agreement. COC opened with “Stone Breakers” and from then on it was an all-out onslaught of sludgy metal at it’s finest. I don’t remember exactly what else they played but I do know they played “Wiseblood,” “Wolf Named Crow,” Long Whip/Big America,” “Seven Days,” “Albatross” and closed with “Clean My Wounds.” Rocked my socks off. As I left the venue to walk to a spot to request a Lyft I realized that I was unknowingly following Pepper Keenan as he was walking back to his bus. Once I realized this I turned the other direction thinking that if he turned around and saw “this guy” again he might of thought I was stalking him. Then again that was probably just the gummies.