Prong, the razor sharp, snap your fingers, snap your neck, 90’s staple metal band is back with their album “Zero Days”.
Amazingly, this is the band’s 6th album to be released since 2012. Lead vocalist & guitarist Tommy Victor is not slowing down with age at all, instead he is steering the band straight ahead into the future with the band’s unique brand of metal.
While it has always been a bit of a quandary where Prong fit within the broad heavy metal scope (are they metal core, industrial metal, alt metal, etc), what is most important to the aforementioned Victor, band leader since it’s inception 30 years ago, is quality music. This he delivers yet again to his audience.
I cannot put Zero Days up there with the classic 90’s Prong records like “Prove You Wrong” or “Cleansing“, but the album definitely hits hard and delivers the goods. Songs like “However It May End” which open the album have that classic Prong touch of going from a breakneck fast pace to a calmer groove type of flow that works. “Blood Out of Stone” & “Operation of The Moral Law” are other standout tracks on “Zero Days”. But the best track for me, the one I keep going back to is the title track. A blistering, metal monster that doesn’t stop and take a breath. It is definitely the one that will get the pit moving out on tour.
Prong has once again stood out from the crowd. It says a lot that a band that’s been around for 3 decades can keep churning out quality albums in this new world of music. Along with Prong, Tommy Victor has been playing in other projects as well, most notably contributing guitar for Glenn Danzig on his last 2 records. The man lives it. He breathes it. Metal!