As the band’s mission statement, Prong incorporates the well of styles their legacy is built on. Blistering thrash sections, open into lush choruses on opening anthem “The Banner”, before somehow pushing the intensity even further on “New Commission”. “The Uprising” reintroduces the band’s industrial edge, weaponizing textured synths over a pulsating two-step, before “Uncertain Truth” flexes its melodic chops, offering a transcendently sweet hook. Immediately the band dropkicks listeners in the chest with the pummeling “Fear The Sun” inciting classic New York Hardcore pit violence. Iconic vocalist and guitarist Tommy Victor’s chops come out in full swing on “Proportionate Response”, a smoldering incitement of retaliatory justice, before the blistering kicks of “Simulated Drowning” propel us forward. Album closer “Our Continuance” brings things to a cataclysmic close with its menacingly methodical pulse and pummelingly discordant breakdowns, tied together with a lush chorus amplified with swelling synth textures.
Mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap, the album sounds crisp and punchy, Victor’s biting lyrics confrontational and infiltrating, driving listeners to contemplate complex matters like the validity of truth, self-inhibitors, and altruism. Dynamically bold, ideologically driven, and melodically infectious, Prong honors their legacy, reminding us why the band has had such a successful longevity.
Prong Tracklist:
1 The Banner
2 New Commission
3 The Uprising
4 Uncertain Truth
5 Fear The Sun
6 Commonsense Resolution
7 Doomed World
8 Proportionate Response
9 Transgression
10 Simulated Drowning
11 Our Continuance
12 Out of Body (Bonus Track)
13 Cruel Summer (Bonus Track)
The album will come in a myriad of formats including a Black LP, Inkspot Cristallo/Red LP, White Label LP, digital album and a CD which will come with two bonus tracks, “Out of Body” and “Cruel Summer”, the latter of which a cover of the Bananarama classic. Additionally, there will be two T-shirt bundles one for the CD and one for the LP.
Prong will be available in the following configurations:
1-LP Gatefold (White Label)
1-LP Gatefold (Inkspot Cristallo/Red)
1-LP Gatefold (Black)
1-CD Digisleeve
1-LP Gatefold + T-shirt Bundle – NPR Exclusive
1-CD Digisleeve + T-shirt Bundle – NPR Exclusive
Digital Album
