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Vocals don't do it for me

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3 Dec 18th, 2008 

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Interesting blend of catchiness and technical prog metal

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Vocals a racket

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Energetic Dissasembly was an album by the Texan progressive metal band Watchtower released in 1985 on Monster Records. The band are excellen musicians and really quite technical but they also manage to blend in a lot of catchiness to produce a heavy metal sound vocally while the music itself focuses on various kinds of styles but mostly progressive metal.

Lyrically the songs tend to be written in a chop, chop, chop style - that is short blasts like early Metallica only there is also quite a lot of screaming going on - in fact it's my personal opinion that Jason McMaster's vocals are a bit of a row.

This album remains a popular choice with metalheads worldwide today and is a bit of a cult classic, whilst it is almost unique in the way that it blends technicality and catchiness - the wailing is just too much for me. Not only that but this album has certainly aged and sounds a bit slow now.

1. "Asylum" - 3:48
2. "Meltdown" - 3:59
3. "Tyrants in Distress" - 5:59
4. "Argonne Forest" - 4:38
5. "Energetic Disassembly" - 4:39
6. "Violent Change" - 3:22
7. "Social Fears" - 4:41
8. "Cimmerian Shadow" - 6:35 

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