Corrosion Of Conformity - Albatross

What this video is

Released in 1994 on Columbia Records, 'Albatross' marked Corrosion of Conformity's commercial breakthrough and a deliberate stylistic pivot from their hardcore/crossover roots toward a Sabbath-influenced, Southern-inflected heavy metal sound. The video arrived at a moment of genre flux — grunge was commercially dominant, alt-metal was fragmenting, and stoner/doom aesthetics were beginning to surface in MTV's hard…

Why it matters

One of the earliest high-profile music videos in the stoner/southern metal subgenre to receive significant MTV airplay, 'Albatross' helped legitimize a sound blending Black Sabbath heaviness with Lynyrd Skynyrd-influenced classic rock craft. Its chart performance (No. 19 Billboard Mainstream Rock)…

The director

Samuel David Bayer (born February 17, 1965, Syracuse, NY) is an American director, cinematographer, visual artist, and photographer. He graduated from New York City's School of Visual Arts in 1987 with a Fine Arts degree and relocated to Los Angeles in 1991.…