COC recruited Simon Bob Sinister after the breakup of their fellow Carolina band and Death Records labelmates Ugly Americans. The band’s 1987 release, the Technocracy EP , featured the hectic crossover thrash musicianship of COC with a cleaner vocal style than they had in the past. The band issued the EP in order to fulfil their contractual obligations with Metal Blade. Bob soon left Corrosion of Conformity to return to Ugly Americans, after which the band broke up without notice for two years. Mullin said that because Metal Blade had charged the band for Technocracy as if it were a full-length album, “[the band] lost a lot of control, we lost sight [and] we lost our track. We were finished.”
Technocracy EP released
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