Mike Dean is the bassist for American metal band Corrosion of Conformity

Corrosion of Conformity

Corrosion of Conformity is an American heavy metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina formed in 1982. For almost the majority of its existence, the band has consisted of guitarist Woody Weatherman, bassist Mike Dean , drummer Reed Mullin and vocalist and rhythm...

. He sang on the band's early recordings from their crossover thrash

Crossover thrash

__FORCETOC__Crossover thrash, often abbreviated to crossover, is a form of thrash metal that contains more hardcore punk elements than standard thrash. The genre lies on a continuum between heavy metal and punk rock...

 era before leaving the band in 1987. In 1989 Dean, along with C.O.C. guitarist Woody Weatherman

Woody Weatherman

Woodroe "Woody" Weatherman is lead guitarist for the heavy metal band Corrosion of Conformity.Woody was born on July 29, 1965 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and now lives in Virginia....

 and artist Brian Walsby on drums, released the Snake Nation

Snake Nation

Snake Nation was a band consisting of Corrosion of Conformity members Mike Dean and Woody Weatherman, along with comic artist Brian Walsby on drums. While C.O.C. was on hiatus in 1989, Snake Nation released one album on Caroline Records. The music was a blend of the aggressive hardcore of...

 album on Caroline Records. Dean rejoined C.O.C. as the bass player and occasional vocalist in 1993 and collaborated with Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl

David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; and the current drummer for Them Crooked Vultures...

 on the Probot song "Access Babylon", a return to the punk/metal fusion of old.

Dean served as the engineer for C.O.C.'s 2005 Sanctuary Records release, "In the Arms of God

In the Arms of God

In the Arms of God is the seventh studio album by Corrosion of Conformity and was released April 5, 2005. So far, it is the only Corrosion of Conformity album to not feature drummer Reed Mullin...

." He was also the producer and engineer for Vampire Circus, an album by Maryland-based doom-metal band Earthride

Earthride

-Biography:Earthride formed in 2000 after the demise of Dave Sherman's previous band, Spirit Caravan. They released their self-titled EP the same year on their own Earth Brain label. They recorded their next release, 2002's Taming of the Demons, with Corrosion of Conformity's Mike Dean acting as...

 released in 2005 by Southern Lord Records

Southern Lord Records

Southern Lord is an American record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson, specializing in what could broadly be classified as experimental heavy metal, particularly the doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal sub-genres. Some of the more notable artists on the label include Earth, Om,...

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Albums

Date of release	Title	Label	Chart positions	US sales
1984	Eye for an Eye Eye for an Eye (album) Eye for an Eye is the first studio album by American hardcore band Corrosion of Conformity released in 1984.-Track listing:#Tell Me - 3:27#Minds Are Controlled - 1:35#Indifferent - 1:18#Broken Will - 1:34#Rabid Dogs - 0:40#L.S...	Caroline Records
October 1985	Animosity Animosity (Corrosion of Conformity album) Animosity is the second studio album by the American band Corrosion of Conformity. Album cover art was done by the artist Pushead.- Track listing :# "Loss for Words" - 4:06# "Mad World" - 1:54# "Consumed" - 2:52# "Holier" - 2:27...	Metal Blade Records Metal Blade Records Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...
October 12, 1989	Snake Nation Snake Nation Snake Nation was a band consisting of Corrosion of Conformity members Mike Dean and Woody Weatherman, along with comic artist Brian Walsby on drums. While C.O.C. was on hiatus in 1989, Snake Nation released one album on Caroline Records. The music was a blend of the aggressive hardcore of...	Caroline Records Caroline Records Caroline Records started out as a subsidiary of Richard Branson's Virgin Records label during the early to mid 1970s. The label originally specialized in putting out budget price LPs by mainly progressive rock and jazz artists generally not considered to have a great deal of 'mainstream' or...
November 27, 1994	Deliverance Deliverance (Corrosion of Conformity album) Deliverance is the fourth album by Corrosion of Conformity, and the first on which Pepper Keenan was lead singer. By this album, the band had completely shed their punk and thrash influences, instead opting for Black Sabbath-inspired heavy metal style. "Clean My Wounds" was a radio hit. The UK's...	Sony Records
October 12, 1996	Wiseblood	Sony Records
October 10, 2000	America's Volume Dealer America's Volume Dealer America's Volume Dealer is the sixth album by Corrosion of Conformity and was released Sep 26, 2000. This was the last album to feature longtime drummer Reed Mullin for 9 years until his return in 2010.-Track listing:... (Available as Dualdisc DualDisc DualDisc was a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group and later under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America... )	Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...
August 7, 2001	Live Volume Live Volume Live Volume is a live album released by sludge metal band Corrosion of Conformity on August 7, 2001. It was recorded on April 20, 2001, at Harpo's in Detroit, MI.-Track listing:#These Shrouded Temples - 4:34#Diablo Blvd... CD, DVD and DVDA	Sanctuary Records
February 10, 2004	Probot Probot Probot was a heavy metal side project of ex-Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters rhythm guitarist and lead-singer Dave Grohl. An album was recorded out of the material and released in February 2004...	Southern Lord
April 5, 2005	In the Arms of God In the Arms of God In the Arms of God is the seventh studio album by Corrosion of Conformity and was released April 5, 2005. So far, it is the only Corrosion of Conformity album to not feature drummer Reed Mullin...	Sanctuary Records
2010/2011	TBA	Unknown label

EPs

Date of release	Title	Label	Chart positions	US sales
1987	Technocracy Technocracy (EP) Technocracy is an EP by Corrosion of Conformity. It was released in 1987 on Metal Blade Records, and re-released in 1992 on Relativity Records with four additional songs, including three demo versions of songs from the EP with bassist Mike Dean singing....	Metal Blade Records
1989	Six Songs With Mike Singing: 1985	Metal Blade Records

Compilations

• No Core (1982, split)
• Why Are We Here? (1983, split)
• Cleanse the Bacteria
  Cleanse the Bacteria
  Cleanse the Bacteria is a hardcore punk compilation LP released in 1985 by Pushead on Pusmort Records. It is an international compilation of early hardcore music, and represents grindcore pioneers Siege's only original official release...
  
  (1985, compilation)
• Complete Death (1985, compilation)(Metal Blade Records)

Music videos

• "Albatross" (1994)
• "Wiseblood" (1996)
• "Drowning in a Daydream" (1996)
• "Stonebreaker" (2005)

External links

• Corrosion of Conformity Official Website
• Gallery of Mike Dean with Corrosion of Conformity on Alberta Stars