Control

sonic warfare: the corrosive experience of CONTROL and the devastation of enemy

since the late 1990s, the american project CONTROL, the sonic moniker of thomas garrison, has occupied a formidable position within the power electronics and death industrial underground. across nearly three decades, garrison has refined a mercilessly precise approach to noise, treating distortion, saturation, and volume not as ends in themselves, but as instruments of tension, psychological dread, and conceptual extremity.

CONTROL operates within a territory where rhythm is less a structure than a persistent physical condition. enduring pulses move beneath resonant metallic drones and severely processed vocal fragments, forming an electronically mediated ritual whose logic remains deliberately elusive. mechanical repetitions evoke an industrial system caught in prolonged failure, while cavernous frequencies and unrelenting aggression induce a hypnotic, almost malefic trance. rather than representing collapse, the music seems to inhabit it - a space where machinery, consciousness, and social order gradually lose their distinctions. disembodied voices emerge as fractured traces of human presence, invoking isolation, systemic exhaustion, and socio-political decay.

ENEMY establishes a psychological siege across a distinct narrative arc. the album unfolds meticulously shifts from an anxious, hyper-vigilant mood in its opening movement, escalates into pure adversarial aggression, and ultimately collapses into an absolute, fatalistic void. true to its title, the record functions as a confrontational mirror held up to a fracturing world - a raw, uncompromising document of structural collapse that simultaneously examines global macro-conflict and the hostile enemy hiding within the human psyche.

12" multicoloured vinyl, each copy pressed in a unique colour blend. Full colour sleeve. Limited edition of 200 copies, with download code. Ant-Zen act495 / Raubbau raub-113.