2013 debut album from this Rock outfit featuring Mike IX Williams (Eyehategod), Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), Sanford Parker (Minsk) and their minister of propaganda, Seward Fairbury. A mysterious cooperative of lost souls, forged unwittingly by the impetuous forces of nature and altered states of consciousness, Corrections House is without control of their destiny. Last City Zero conjures an impossible-to-pinpoint kaleidoscopic synthesis of mechanical decomposition, atmospheric abnormalities, and poetic putrefaction. Embracing the unkind, the diseased, the forgotten, the morose, the group's lush anti-soundscrapes and shadowy verses - at once beautifully hideous, graceful and terrifying - are a direct manifestation of societal ruin and psychological decay. Corrections House systematically creates and destroys through audio disease and transcendent musical deconstruction. All things in all ways. There is nothing else.
R**I
I really wanted to like these guys
I really wanted to like these guys. I Like Eyehategod etc... on it's own it's fair, but given the lineup - disappointing. I was hoping for...more. More "industrial" touches - more sludge - more...METAL. This seems to be a lot of meandering. I will check out whatever these guys do next, but...
K**R
instant classic
the absolute best noise band ever.
A**R
Five Stars
Refreshing
R**D
Amazing album from the depht of apocalyptic nightmare!
Collaborations between noteworthy musicians are immediately intriguing. But when those musicians are Mike Williams (Eyehategod), Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) and Sanford Parker (Minsk), the excitement multiplies tenfold and expectations run wild. These four singular, influential performers come together in the form of the new project Corrections House, and their full-length debut, Last City Zero, is musical brilliance. While each member brings elements of their unique background to the table, their collective sound is rather unexpected. Presumptions of a combination of each of their established acts are instantly thrown out the window, as eight-minute opening track "Serve or Survive" features sections of droning noise and doom that weave through and loop around cacophonous industrial segments. Tons of experimental effects and an unorthodox use of saxophone are present in a constant spiral of dramatic dissonance, while mechanical, percussive beats dominate "Bullets and Graves" and "Dirt Poor and Mentally Ill." Although chaotic and complex, Last City Zero also contains moments of natural, simplistic sounds, such as the mystical "Run Through the Night," as well as the stripped-down, spoken word title track. Featuring dark, depressing atmospheres and exceptionally negative, apocalyptic vibes, Last City Zero is brooding, raw and corrosive, as well as breathtakingly beautiful.
A**H
I LOVE IT
Dude this is insane man when i came up on it and saw Mike IX Williams was in it i was sold already. I picked it up popped it in and had no idea what i was in for but boy was i delightfully suprised ! This is just an assault on all senses,it's beautifully tragic and sad,and strange and beautiful all at once. It's not just music this is a mind experience,this will make you crawl inside of your own head and find things that you never thought were there. Man i don't even know how to describe it man it could be considered experimental/ambient soundscape/spoken performance with notes of industrialism,but it is none of those "labels" this stands alone on it's own as it's own kind of experience. All i have to say is if you can find it you better grab it,because this is an album of history right here. 50 years from now this will scare the hell out of people more than it may already now. Great find !
D**郎
大御所たち集結して作り上げた混沌としたサウンド。
NeurosisのScott Kelly、EyehategodのMike WilliamsYakuzaのBruce Lamont、Minskのsanford parkerといった大御所からそれぞれ一人ずつ集結したメンバーによる1stアルバム。 サウンドではNeurosisしか聴いたことないので、他のメンバーのバンドのサウンドの事は何とも言えないが、それでもひたすらへヴィで混沌としたポストメタルやドゥームメタルを放つNeurosisに、インダストリアルとパワーエレクトロニクスのじゃりじゃりしたノイズを足した様な内容なので、さらに混沌としたサウンドと化している。 もちろんそんな曲ばかりではなく、アルバム中ハイテンポな「Bullets And Graves」はハードコアパンク+石井忠ばりのメタルジャンクで、突進するビートとノイズ、金属音が格好良い熱い曲があれば、「Run Through The Night」といった哀愁漂うフォークソングに、物悲しいギターの音色が印象的な「Last City Zero」は、世界が滅びた後の荒野の光景を彷彿させるアンビエントの曲もあり、バリエーション豊かであるながら、散漫にならないところは流石だと思う。上記に挙げたバンドが好きなら非常におススメなアルバム。
E**L
Bitterarm und Geisteskrank
Vor etwas mehr als einem Jahr gab es die ersten Lebenszeichen von Corrections House in Form des 'Hoax the System' Musikvideos. Eine Zusammenarbeit von Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Mike IX Williams (EyeHateGod, Arson Anthem), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) und Sanford Parker(Minsk, Nachtmystium, Twilight). Jeder dieser Musiker war an Meisterwerken beteiligt. Mike IX und Scott Kelly gehören neben Aaron Turner, King Buzzo und Dale Crover zu den wichtigsten Figuren des modernen amerikanischen Doom Metal. Eine Kooperation von Mike IX und Scott Kelly, allein die Ankündigung schlug Wellen. Dazu dann noch Sanford Parker, der nicht nur an den großartigsten Veröffentlichung des amerikanischen Black Metals beteiligt war(Addicts II, Monument) sondern auch aktives permanentes Mitglied der Sludge und Doom-Bands Minsk und Buried at the Sea ist.Corrections House schlossen sofort Alleingänge und die Egoperspektive aus und stilisierten sich zum Kollektiv: Sie treten von Beginn an als US-paramilitärisches Kollektiv in Erscheinung, einheitliche Kleidung in Form von dunklen Bomberjacken mit Logopatch auf der Schulter, dunklen Cargohosen und für die Videos Strumpfmasken, bei Liveauftritten fehlt das Element der Maske.Dann kam die unbeschreiblich grandiose an Godflesh angelehnte Industrial Metal EP mit den beiden Songs 'Hoax the System' und 'Grin with a Purpose'. Lyrisch basiert Last City Zero auf Williams Gedichtband 'Cancer As A Social Activity'. Williams kotzt sich hier zynisch und verbissen über das Leben und die Welt aus. Er selbst nennt es schlicht seine 'Dark Negative Poetry'.Das Album fußt vornehmlich auf dieser Dark Negative Poetry und den musikalischen Ideen von Scott Kelly.Last City Zero pendelt zwischen seinen folkigen Soloalben und einigen der wesentlichen Veröffentlichungen die Neurosis in den späten 1990ern vollbracht haben, nur eben mit einer deutlichen Schlagseite Industrial Metal.Es gibt keine Drums, keine Percussion, stattdessen programmiert Sanford Parker hierfür seine Sampler auch mal mit Glasscherbenklirren. Aber eben nie mit komplexer Rhythmik. Beim Schalgwerk gibt es nur an oder aus. Den vornehmlich zwischen Spoken Word und Schreien pendelnden Gesang teilen sich Kelly und Williams mal gemischt wie im Opener Serve or Survive, aber meistens doch jeder für sich. Die Musik geht nur ein Mal in die Hardcorelastigen Vollen(Bullets and Graves) und pendelt ansonsten eher zwischen Post Metal(Serve or Survive) oft mit massivem mit Industrial Metal Einfluss(Party Leg and three Fingers, Dirt Poor an Mentaly Ill) und folkig reduzierter Gitarrenmusik, die man von Kellys Soloalben kennt und die mich hier sogar mal entfernt an Neofolkfragmente erinnert(Run Through the Night). Aber selbst auf diesen Wechsel lassen sich Correcions House kaum reduzieren, nur Nihilistisch und DOOMIG ist etwas dass man der Band als Label anscheinend immer anheften kann.Denn doomig bleibt die Band auch wenn sie sich auf einen undefinierten Taktschlag, das loungige Saxophon, eine Akustikgitarre und Scott Kellys brummenden Sprechgesang reduziert(Hallows of the Stream) oder wenn Mike Williams ausnahmsweise gänzlich unverzerrt ohne zu Schreien, nur von einem sich gemächlich wiederholendem Gitarrenakkord begleitet über die Abgründigkeit der amerikanischen Existenz und seine nihilistische Weltsicht referiert, reduziert auf die Erkenntnis 'Ich glaube an die Jämmerlichkeit'(Last City Zero).Das dabei dann noch Titel wie das hämmernde Dirt Poor and Mentaliy Ill und das gemächlich brodelnde Run Through the Night mit überraschender Eingänigkeit so etwas wie 'Hitpotential' aufweisen, scheint fast schon nebensächlich(auch weil bei allem Potential, die Band wohl kaum enorme Bekanntschaft in Europa erlangen wird) und könnte einem im fließenden Wechsel des Gesamtkunstwerkes beinah entgehen.Und in diesem Grandiosem, sich stetig Wandelnden Eindruck des Albums entsteht fast nebenbei ein Album, dass sich in seiner Dichte an das überragende ' A Sun That Never Sets ' von Neurosis anschließt. In der Konsequenz dieser musikalischen Ausrichtung ist Corrections House Last City Zero weniger etwas für EyeHateGod, Arson Anthem oder Nachtmystium-Fans als für Neurosis-Änhänger der Phase von Through Silver bis zur Sun, obwohl ich hier und da auch an Enemy of the Sun denken musste. Über Yakuza möchte ich nichts sagen, die Band kenne ich zu wenig. Dennoch für mich ein wirkliches Glanzstück ohne Ausfälle, dafür mit diversen Höhepunkten. Das für mich bisher dritte überragende Album des Jahres neben Eros/Anteros und The Primitive World . A Sun That Never SetsEros/AnterosThe Primitive World
B**1
A good debut by an interesting combination of underground rock/metal artists. But could do with more tempo!
As mentioned in other reviews, this album is the brainchild of Scott Kelly (Neurosis) and EyeHateGod singer Mike Williams.'Serve Or Survive' is driven by a repeated onimous doom/sludge metal guitar riff and a very Neurosis-sounding Scott Kelly and a very EyeHateGod sounding Mike Williams - both maintain their signature sound whilst also creating something quite unique.'Bullets and Graves' is a superb minus 3 minute song with an up-tempo, heavily distorted, mix of an old-school punk vibe, sludge metal riffs and weird electronic noises. This is Correction House at their best and most unique sounding, but sadly, it is the only example of this on the album.'Run Through The Night' is an acoustic-led song with obligatory electronics, with a Western feel and wouldn't sound too out of place on an Ennio Morricone score or a Segio Leone film!The vast majority of the songs sound a lot like Neurosis and therein lies the album's weakness (if you can call it that) you could easily be blindfolded and guess that this is a Neurosis album on listening to most tracks and when they do find their unique sound (a la 'Bullets And Graves') they don't do enough of it, I would've liked to see at least another two more up tempo songs in this vein as opposed to 1 or 2 of the tracks on this album.A solid 7 out of 10. A good album and a great combination of legendary underground heroes but with a few missed oppurtunities.At its best it sounds like Nine Inch Nails on steroids.Hopefully, we will be looking back at this album as the first of a few Correction House releases where this will be held in high regard as an essential blue print and promise of the quality to come.
G**F
How Supergroups Should Sound
There are pivotal moments when you listen to music with intent when, suddenly, something special happens and you're struck by some realisation of the sublime. It usually comes when the spirit of the unbound is released through instruments, voice and words, wherein man's innate, unconscious connection to otherness can be captured. This record, from a collective featuring Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Mike IX Williams (Eyehategod), Sanford Parker (Minsk/ex-Nachtmystium), and Bruce Lamont (Yakuza/Bloodiest), like last week's sublime release by Ihsahn, features a bundle of such moments. When the opening track, Serve or Survive, rolls from Scott Kelly's opening refrain, `the travel of the stone...that brings the body home' into the machinery and pistons of Parker's programming and Williams's coarse, distorted vocals, the first of those many realisations comes. The formula remains consistent throughout - simple but oppressive repetition with an industrial stamp punctuated by Kelly's clean guitar lines and Lamont's saxophone.Despite that observation, nothing has been painted by numbers. The eclecticism on display, bound by a common sonic thread, varies from sounding like something Nailbomb could have done (Bullets and Graves) to something with more than a shade of Ancient VVisdom in it (Run Through The Night). Last City Zero, in contrast to both aforementioned songs and the opener, fits a simple, Kelly guitar figure under Seward Fairbury's bleak verbal tour of the States, before the dark brilliance of Drapes Hung By Jesus brings this highly satisfying release to a close like a maelstrom of bleak rage.Interesting, unique and eclectic this album certainly is. Its superior craftsmanship lies in the knowledge of what tones and textures fit the atmosphere and aesthetic that the artists have envisioned. Deep brass punctuates chorus-soaked guitars, fuzzed bass and industrial drum-programming with nuanced subtlety throughout, mixing each artist's unique timbre and input into a shared soundscape that conjures up broad creative and emotional textures with simplicity and minimal structure, so that no single individual can dominate, or the point of the project doesn't become lost in the blandness of creative democracy. This is a `supergroup' that works convincingly together without any obvious compromise and is a true example of how a balanced multi-talent project should sound.
M**C
Doomy slow and noisy
Fantastic album which paints a dark atmosphere... this album consists of noisy electronics and distorted guitars and tribal-like drumming... vocals are occasionally yelled and fit the bleak atmosphere perfectly whilst certain moments have their 'clean' vocals which sound just as powerful as the harsh ones... I recommend this album if unconventional song writing is your thing and you're prone to enjoy artful white noise (Lol)
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