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Prong - Cleansing(1994),Power Of The Damager(2007)

Prong's first album,Cleansing,released way back in 1994 was an instant industrial metal clasic,i mean common how only "Snap Your Fingers,Snap Your Neck" could have made this album special,those powerful riffs rock your socks off , even though they are a little bit repetitive the music is filled with adrenaline.The second album i've posted ,Power Of The Damager,is their latest release and it's good even though a comparison with Cleansing is hard to make because they are now more groove metal than industrial metal.Enough talk,check these two albums out or die !

"ome 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.

It's not a perfect album; the songs tend to drag on when there's nothing left to say, and Victor's lyrics aren't always brilliant. However, although it's hard to discern a definite meaning from his words, he's always (vaguely) trying to get some sort of message across. There's no songs about girls 'n' beer on here.

To sum it all up, if you like metal, get this album. There really isn't much more you can say. The musicians are impressive, the songs are all solid and unique enough to keep them from running together, and you'll either love it or hate it, because it's all the same style (powerful riffs; growled, thrash-style vocals; mid-to-fast tempo). Definitely a 4/5, because it impressed my non-metal-loving self and it'd be hard to find a better example of the genre during the time period it was released."(review from sputnikmusic.com)