"Serve or Survive"

The first cut from Last City Zero, the debut by motley metal supergroup Corrections House, is every bit as strange and unwieldy as its membership might suggest. “Serve or Survive” opens as an oblong bed of noise, the circuits of producer Sanford Parker, struggle to catch their breath while Bruce Lamont broadcasts whale song by saxophone. Above the gray drift, Neurosis’ Scott Kelly intones his familiar doom.

But that’s just the track’s first quarter, as Corrections House spends the next six minutes writhing through mutant industrial and blown-out body music, while the serpent’s hiss of speak-spitting Eyehategod singer Mike Williams crawls through it all. The quartet relapses occasionally back into noise and doom, but merely as preludes to the track’s triumphant end. Suddenly, Corrections House suggest Melvins as remixed by Prurient’s Dominick Fernow, their inescapable wallop perfectly wrapped in corroded and failing wires. Last City Zero is out October 29.