SIZE DOES MATTER ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

In 1985 the Texas quartet WatchTower released Energetic Disassembly and in 1989 they released Control and Resistance, inspiring hundreds of bands to follow their blueprint for technical metal. Twenty one years after the release of the latter, WatchTower have returned with new music and they sound just as vital as ever.

I was too young to appreciate or even know about WatchTower during their first go-round, but listening to new track “The Size of Matter” as well as some of the band’s older material on their MySpace page it’s immediately obvious how directly influential this band was on so many of the great prog metal bands of the last two decades. I don’t think it’s a stretch at all to say that without WatchTower bands like Cynic, Atheist, Dream Theater and Meshuggah would be very different from the bands they are today. They might not even exist.

“The Size of Matter” comes from Mathematics, an in-progress album still without a label or release date.

-VN

Thanks: Christopher P.