About as accessible as a barbed-wire maze, this cult techno-thrash relic is full of wizardry in the musical department, but it's certainly one for the complex guru's, because although startling in its showmanship and tight percussion, this is without doubt one of the more acquired tastes within the thrash metal field. Cynic, Atheist, and the likes also opted for such intricacies, but this record is at once dazzling yet thorny in its approach. Not exactly your typical crunch-fest, this relies heavily on the soaring, high-pitched vocal delivery of Alan Tecchio and guitar masturbating of Ron Jarzombek.'Control & Resistance' is far from being a simple record, at times leaving you cold with its multitude of layers and discordant speed, the bass jerking back and forth between the trigger-happy drumming and the rhythms pulsing and pumping but leaving you shaking in a limbo of spasmodic and epileptic frenzy.
Watchtower were pretty short-lived, possibly because as a band they were just too inaccessible but I'm sure there were a few out there who lapped up the complexities of this bewildering thrash.
8/10
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