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Prong: Carved Into Stone

  Tobias Fischer

Prong leader Tommy Victor is working with Danzig and Ministry these days, leaving not a whole lot of time for his own crew, whose rock-tinged speed metal may have suffered a bit, if you’d call it suffering when a band sounds like a cross between, you know, Danzig and Ministry.

There are pinched guitar squeals, steroid-muscled vocals and industrial riffs here, stuff that isn’t exactly in line with previous albums but close enough, and bang on cue, there’s a sucky mid-tempo thing on there, namely “Keep On Living In Pain,” a glimpse of what ends up in Ozzy’s songwriting trash barrel.

But none of this is rocket science anyway, thus if you’ve always wanted to hear something that was the closest thing to a set of obscure Nuclear Assault and Slayer tunes re-tooled by a Ministry cover band, this would be pure heaven to you.

By Eric Saeger

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