Prong - Cleansing 1994

Some albums, no matter how hard you try, can't be given any descriptive tags. You can't add a "nu-" or a "proto-" or a "post-" or a "pop-", there are no experiments or genre-shifting - it's just a solid example of a particular type of music at its core. Cleansing, the fifth full-length by the New York semi-supergroup (featuring Swans and Killing Joke members), is an excellent metal album that's nothing but.

Prong aren't trying to impress anybody with Cleansing - not that they aren't technically competent (they certainly are), but the band prefers to stick to more simple (and impressive) thrashing throughout the album, rather than toss off a few experimental filler tracks or attempt to go beyond the boundaries of what metal usually allows. This could lead to a repetitive and tedious album in the wrong hands, but Victor is a talented songwriter and covers as much territory within the confines of "metal" as he possibly can. He throws in some interesting twists now and then - like managing to use the familiar monotone "this is only a test" recording as a semi-melodic hook in "Test" - but nothing that'll cause anyone to hit the 'skip' button.



01 - Another Worldly Device

02 - Whose Fist Is This Anyway

03 - Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck

04 - Cut-Rate

05 - Broken Peace

06 - One Outnumbered

07 - Out Of This Misery

08 - No Question

09 - Not Of This Earth

10 - Home Rule

11 - Sublime

12 - Test



Tommy Victor - Vocals, Guitar

Paul Raven - Bass

Ted Parsons - Drums

John Bechdel - Keyboards



1994

320cbr EAC

132mb

Front cover incl.

Tracked by Rockout-Boogie