Corrosion of Conformity and The Sword bring a heavy Wednesday to the Granada

The co-headlining run behind C.O.C.'s new double album hits Mass Street on Wednesday, Nov 11, with Hippie Death Cult opening.

Wednesday nights on Mass Street usually belong to the bars. Next week, the loudest thing downtown will be coming out of the old vaudeville house at 1020 Massachusetts.

Corrosion of Conformity plays the Granada Theater on Wednesday, Nov 11, at 7 p.m., sharing a co-headlining bill with The Sword, with Hippie Death Cult opening. Tickets are on sale through eTix. It is also, as far as our records go, the first time Corrosion of Conformity has booked a Lawrence date, which makes this less a routine tour stop than an overdue introduction.

The reason for the trip is new music, and a lot of it. Corrosion of Conformity released Good God / Baad Man, a double album, on April 3 through Nuclear Blast, and it was the band's first new music in eight years, Blabbermouth reported when this tour was announced in late August. A spring headline run with Crobot and Whores and a July swing through the western U.S. and Canada already put the record in front of crowds this year. This November leg is the tighter, two-week coda: it opened Nov 2 at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo and wraps Nov 19 at Vinyl Music Hall in Pensacola, according to The Metallist. Before Lawrence, the bands work through the East Coast, with stops including Asbury Park, Hampton Beach, Virginia Beach and Harrisburg; after Lawrence, the next date is Rockford.

The Sword arrive with an anniversary of their own. The band is marking 20 years since its debut album, Age of Winters, per the tour announcement, so expect the co-headline sets to lean on old material as much as new. That pairing is what makes the night worth a weeknight: two bands that have been at this long enough to have catalogs worth digging into, splitting the top of the bill rather than one simply warming up for the other.

Hippie Death Cult has the early slot, so with a 7 p.m. start, plan to be inside before the first band rather than wandering over after dinner.

The room matters here too. The Granada was built in 1928 as a vaudeville theater by the Boller Brothers and turned into a movie house in 1934, Wikipedia's history) notes; the first film it showed was the Robert Montgomery comedy Hide-Out. These days it books touring bands from across the country, and it is the kind of downtown room where a heavy show feels close and physical rather than distant. If you have only ever seen the Granada full of college kids on a Friday, a midweek metal bill is a different animal: earlier crowd, more band shirts, fewer people checking their phones.

A few practical notes. It is a school night, so the early start is a gift; you can catch all three bands and still be home at a reasonable hour. Downtown parking on a Wednesday is easier than on a weekend, but give yourself time anyway. And if you are driving in from Kansas City or Topeka, this is one date on a short run that will not swing back this way soon.

Bring earplugs. Wear the old shirt. This one has been a long time coming.

Sources: CORROSION OF CONFORMITY And THE SWORD Announce November 2026 U.S. Tour (Blabbermouth) (blabbermouth.net); CORROSION OF CONFORMITY And THE SWORD Take A Two-Week U.S. Run In November (The Metallist) (themetallist.com); Corrosion of Conformity and The Sword Announce Fall 2026 US Tour (Consequence) (concerts.consequence.net); CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Announces 2026 North American Headlining Tour With WHORES And CROBOT (Blabbermouth) (blabbermouth.net); Corrosion of Conformity plots July 2026 Western U.S./Canada headline tour (Live Metal) (live-metal.com); Granada Theater (Lawrence, Kansas) - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); eTix - Corrosion of Conformity / The Sword, The Granada (etix.com)