Prong
Prove You Wrong

THE REVIEW

- I fill a void in this current resaBeD with one of the crumpled records that I never pull out; it resurfaced for me after that vertical New Year's watershed, none other than one of the greatest bands in terms of influence on certain shores and that cannot be missing in the rock and roll music books I haven't read, like all of them; certainly among the masters of the sullen walk, these gentlemen were (are, but better were) a variable congregation that best represents the metamorphosis of a sound, embedded in an offer of tentacular metal from which not a few great musicians of hardcore, thrash, and groove have drawn; the sharp cut in the riff breaks, just enough rust, little solo onanism, and impact just the way I like it; still, with some chronological steps back, what can be heard in Force Fed was and is thrash at its highest levels, a rhythmic and above all methodical revolution; among other things, whether it's the raw production of the early albums or the context, they remained like in limbo without ever really making it big, above many amid lineup and style changes; as far as I have listened to the following years, the quality of the tracks has irreversibly declined - to my ears, that is.

In any case, 1991, Prove You Wrong I have never heard anyone mention it as one of Tommy Victor and company's \armored/ albums, but it's here that they take me to the max, where they truly render the mixture between booming bass and bulldozer moves, where in rhythmic ascents they tend a wire between rapping and funk for a definitive crossover preceding the nu metal wave; super-structured tracks with never mundane evolution, omnipresent melodic shortcuts that do not bore even where the same rhythm is incessantly beaten for minutes; to name a few, Irrelevant Thoughts might recall Coroner's agony, Prove You Wrong is wonky funk in beastie-primus-boys style, Hell If I Could is pure industrial delirium and Unconditional has a fat and happy intro; there are plenty of bands that have added at least a sprinkle of prong to their albums, personally, I thank this tasty metal variety, it sounds nostalgic and is always pleasant to put on.

PS it is not on this album, but it cannot, must not (!) be missing in anyone's metal collection