{"id":6575,"date":"2018-02-20T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:14:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T18:14:37","slug":"ilsa-corpse-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/ilsa-corpse-fortress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilsa <br>Corpse Fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ilsa-corpse_fortress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6576\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ilsa-corpse_fortress.jpg\" alt=\"Ilsa, Corse Fortress\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ilsa-corpse_fortress.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ilsa-corpse_fortress-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>There are probably several hundred sludge-metal bands right now churning out charcoal soot\u2013encrusted streams on Bandcamp and playing tiny basement bars that reek of stale beer, their setlists culminating with Mot\u00f6rhead covers that sound more like Eyehategod or maybe the other way around. Ilsa, having formed a decade ago, has helped influence this new generation of gutter snipes by virtue of longevity as well as prolificacy: they\u2019ve averaged a new full-length every two years alongside splits with the likes of Hooded Menace and Seven Sisters of Sleep.<\/p>\n<p><i>Corpse Fortress<\/i> is the band\u2019s fifth album and notably its first for Relapse Records. This pairing with the semi\u2013major label seems overdue as all of their splits were with Relapse artists, including the last one with Coffins in 2016. However, signing with the label hasn\u2019t changed how the band operates in any meaningful way. As in the past, they recorded the new record with Kevin Bernsten (Full of Hell, Code Orange, Magrudergrind, Integrity) at Developing Nations studio in nearby Baltimore. The album cover, a wailing mask surrounded by creepy insects, is a black-and-white drawing by drummer Joshy Brettell, who has done all of the band\u2019s artwork. (He also drums in Integrity, whose last album also came out on Relapse.)<\/p>\n<p>Lead track \u201cHikikomori\u201d sees the band culminating the past 10 years into one song. Over Brontosaurian riffs, burly bearded vocalist Orion Peter belches out, \u201cSpend my life in low-lit rooms, nursing sour beer\u2026 Soaked in sludge, hair down to my knees.\u201d The cut stands out from the rest of the album not just because it\u2019s the only occasion where the band keeps it real (elsewhere, Ilsa explores time-honored themes of horror and hellfire), but it\u2019s the most traditionally doom moment of the record. Sludge and doom often seem intrinsically intertwined, but favoring the former, the sound on <i>Corpse Fortress<\/i> is raw and dirty. \u201cCosmos Antinomos\u201d is dirgy D-Beat; \u201cProsector\u201d could be a <i>Fear, Emptiness, Despair<\/i>\u2013era Napalm Death B-side if the band was on Novocain at the time; and \u201cOld Maid\u201d is like a slowed-down Nausea track, thanks to a crusty rhythm and shrieking vocal accompaniment from DC documentarian Amy KC Oden.<\/p>\n<p><i>Corpse Fortress<\/i> is a slovenly slab of sludge that\u2019s grimy enough to make the crust punks think they\u2019re the ones being serenaded. Instead of going nowhere fast, though, Ilsa goes a few different places very slowly. 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