Prove You Wrong

The trio gets right down to business with brutal opener "Irrelevant Thoughts," its tribal drumming and supersonic guitar effects literally stomping on the listener's brain. Where 'Beg To differ' had a straight forward and polished sound, this album is more adventurous. A couple of slow tracks as well. The title track and "Unconditional" are some of the best material Prong has churned out, and over the course of the album, "Torn Between", "No Way To Deny It", and "Pointless" are immensely satisfying, intense bursts of hardcore metal. Listen to it without distractions similar to the Kyuss' albums. It has many Textures and Rhythms, and is an Emotional rollercoaster. Thinking man's metal.

On Prove You Wrong Prong began to allow a little more melody to trickle into their depressing urban noisescapes, but the album lacks some of the spark which made the band's breakthrough, Beg to Differ, so surprising. The trio gets right down to business with brutal opener "Irrelevant Thoughts," its tribal drumming and supersonic guitar effects literally stomping on the listener's brain. "Positively Blind," "Hell if I Could," and the title track are scathing attacks on the emerging Generation X complacency, and the latter's riff is a wonderfully perverted twist on Led Zeppelin's "Celebration Day." Yet the album's two singles, "Unconditional" and "Pointless," though undeniably catchy, are remarkably similar in structure and rhythm -- not necessarily a bad thing, but repetitive nonetheless. New bassist Troy Gregory takes over lead vocals for "Brainwave," one of the disc's few real surprises along with a storming cover of the Stranglers' "Get a Grip on Yourself." But with so little novelty added to the band's sonic palette, the overall result still leaves something to be desired. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia