Fortress, by Fortress

Fortress

by Fortress

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Bloodbath Fanzine OK so this albums not new by any means, it was released back in 2013 but since I only found it in 2015 I decided to tell you about it (chances are you missed it first time round too). Anyway temporal eligibilities aside this album has some very decent metal on it. The music is of the classic metal / heavy rock variety, the lyrics are brilliantly daft and the vocals rough. Favorite track: Past Them Tress.

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One hot platter of Fortress rock on honest to goodness 180 gram black vinyl with red splatter! With a digital download code for your computer machines!

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1.	The Fortress Holds 01:16	buy track
2.	Jumanji 03:15	buy track
3.	Tough Tommy Thompson 03:05	buy track
4.	Goblin III 04:41	buy track
5.	Hot Singu 03:43	buy track
6.	Past Them Tress 03:59	buy track
7.	Rad Racer 03:34	buy track
8.	Huxtability Verified 03:51	buy track
9.	Ohni Helm 02:41	buy track
10.	Kevin Bacon 03:09	buy track
11.	Baron Fields 06:13	buy track

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released October 31, 2013

All songs written by Fortress, except The Fortress Holds written by Benjamin McDaniel - www.distantempire.com

All songs recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tim Green at Louder Studios - louderstudios.com

Cover artwork by Andy Westoff - westhoffenator.tumblr.com

"We were pretty much already sold before hearing a single note from this new Bay Area metal horde, based almost entirely on the record cover, a super bad ass D&D style drawing of a compliment of orcs (we presume, nerds feel free to correct us), wielding axes, shrunken heads on pikes, weird bird dragon things, not to mention a hot naked human female, no doubt the spoils of whatever metal war these guys were waging, and they're called Fortress, the band logo like some stone hewn castle, and of course there's the description of the band on their website: "Fortress are ancient battle sorcerers, who, for one thousand sun cycles, have cheated death and dealt blistering heavy metal thunder upon the known and unknown worlds. They are also nerds." Both of which are true, they most certainly do rain down heavy metal thunder, the sounds classic metal riffery, harmonized guitar leads, the sound epic and supremely majestic! And they are also most definitely nerds, check out the song titles: "Goblin III", "Rad Racer", "Kevin Bacon", "Huxtability Verified" and of course opener "Jumanji", complete with the bellowed chorus: "Robin Williams, you're full of shit!". So yeah, already you can tell, these guys have tongue firmly in cheek, but their metal is no joke. With a slightly different cast these guys could find themselves sonically aligned with Slough Feg instead of Hot Fog, but hell, we digging this, inside jokes and all. The vocals might be the one thing that keep Fortress from being true metal masters, unlike the majestic metal croon of someone like Slough Feg's Mike Scalzi, the vocals in Fortress are more of a raspy punk rock bellow, which had us thinking of bands like Karp or Godheadsilo, but for folks who dig both classic metal and metallic punk, these guys definitely kill it, lacing their sonic epicry with the appropriate sound effects (thunder, rain, etc.), and mood music, and interludes, and even with the punkish bellow, and some straight up joke tracks, the second their sound soars into some majestic metal moments, all fist pumping, head banging, harmony guitars, or power metallized pummel, your metal heart would have to be dead for you not to dig it.
180 gram black vinyl with blood red splatter, the aforementioned killer cover art, and includes a digital download too!"
- Aquarius Records
www.aquariusrecords.org

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FORTRESS San Francisco San Francisco, California

Fortress are ancient battle sorcerers, who, for one thousand sun cycles, have cheated death and dealt blistering heavy metal thunder upon the known and unknown worlds. They are also nerds.

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