Artist: Prong
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal: Industrial
Alternative
Metal: Alternative
Discography:
Power Of The Damager
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Scorpio Rising
Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
Cleansing (Limited Edition)
Year: 1994
Tracks: 15
Prove You Wrong
Year: 1991
Tracks: 13
Force Fed
Year: 1991
Tracks: 13
Beg To Differ
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Rising out of the expansive early '90s thrash alloy landscape, New York's Prong carved a recess all their have with their minimalist urban require on the genre. After age working as a soundman at New York's CBGB's Tommy Victor (vocals/guitars) drafted doorman Mike Kirkland (bass) and ex-Swans drummer Ted Parsons to form Prong in the mid 80s. The trio's early independent releases -- Primitive Origins and Force Fed -- were highly raw and betrayed their hard-core roots. By the time the radical signed with Epic for 1990's Tap to Differ though, Victor and companionship had transformed into a highly-technical thrash metal kit, battery out clinical staccato riffs and start-stop rhythms peppered with subtle melodies and occasional bursts of speed. The album's title cart track was a minor rack up, serving to put the band on the map once it received regular exposure on MTV's Headbanger's Ball.
Ex-Flotsam and Jetsam bassist Troy Gregory replaced Kirkland for 1991's Testify You Wrong -- which featured some other potent single in "Unconditional" -- just was basically a creative property pattern and lost some of the band's momentum. Gregory was shortly ousted and supplanted by 2 ex-Killing Joke and Murder Inc. members in bassist Paul Raven and keyboard player John Bechdel for 1994's Purifying. Containing arguably their topper work, the record album sawing machine a little change of direction towards a more industrial sound, with Victor's precise riffing making direction for a greater sense of groove and melody. It did slight to increment the group's commercial appeal, all the same. Prong would dissolve undermentioned 1996's less inspired Unmannerly Awakening. Parsons then went on to join British industrialists Godflesh piece Victor toured with goth-punks Danzig, merely rumors hang in of an eventual Prong reunification.
