����� One of the latest slabs of murderous power electronics from Thomas Garrison and his fearsome Control project, released a little while back on vinyl through the label run by Aldebaran / Nightfell / Weregoat member Tim Call. As with most of his work under the Control name, these six tracks explore themes of extreme violence, madness and dissolution through a varied array of electronic disturbances and brutal noise abuse. Some of this stuff is surprisingly mellow, such as the softly shimmering waves of blissed-out ambience that ride on currents of clanking, cacophonous junk-noise sweeping through the opening track "Avulsion"; even at it's most abrasive, it's a highly atmospheric, almost cinematic piece of shimmering feedback-laced soundscapery.

����� But on other tracks, Garrison unleashes a hellish death industrial assault, abrasive and heavy, forged from heavy metallic loops, massive chrome-plated drones and searing distorted sinewaves, with his brutal, ultra-distorted vocals roaring across the slow, deliberate throb of the music. Those rhythmic, looping elements are a recurring element throughout this stuff, sometimes shifting this into an intensely heavy and distorted sort of death-dirge; on "You Wait For It", a simple, bludgeoning two-chord synth riff and Garrison's howling vocal mantra all get hammered together into a plodding, electrified throb that almost feels like an early Swans recording pushed through an immense amount of over-modulated distortion and feedback. Those heavier tracks are contrasted with the lushly layered drones that descend through layers of abyssal blackness, the sound of bathyspheric pings echoing against expanses of swirling opaque darkness, mechanical rumblings reverberating beneath swells of toxic electronic spew, his desperate shrieks leaving tracers of vocal psychosis streaking over that monstrous, malevolent pulse at the heart of these rumbling, bone-rattling industrial deathscapes.

����� Amazingly bleak and brutal, this is a top-notch example of what makes Control one of my favorite American power electronics/death industrial artists, delivering another solid, fearsome blast of mesmeric misanthropic horror that fans of stuff like Grey Wolves, Brighter Death Now and Anenzephalia should be hearing. Issued in a limited edition of three hundred copies, and comes with a digital download code.