Prong

The new song samples from the upcoming Prong album sound promising.
http://www.myspace.com/prong

You should have added this to the Prong thread I started last week I have heard the whole album that is coming out in October. It is quite good.

Cool. Where did you hear it from?

I downloaded it from soulseek, will still buy it when it comes out though.

I'm getting this tomorrow! Man this is gonna rip some heads off.

it's a great album. it's on my to buy list.

They seemed to have scraped off their commercial edge for this one, and thats a good thing-TJ

I still need to grab the new one. I've only heard the old demos Tommy was putting on MySpace. Some of them were killer.

Eyesore wrote:

I still need to grab the new one. I've only heard the old demos Tommy was putting on MySpace. Some of them were killer.

They rule!

I got a promo of the new Prong (POWER OF THE DAMAGER) over the weekend. I'm giving it the first spin right now and it sounds pretty sweet to me

metal hammer reckinoed it was not too good and also in the same issue had a feautre saying how they formed nu metal and metal core

although i have never heard them so i cant judge them

TheGooch wrote:

metal hammer reckinoed it was not too good and also in the same issue had a feautre saying how they formed nu metal and metal core

Metal Hammer is clueless.

I'd say they may have been an influence on Metal-core, that I can kinda see (though Prong are far less screamy and nowhere near as annoying as most metalcore), but not nu-metal. There is no hip hop influence in Prong's stuff and that's the first thing I think of when I hear the term "nu metal"

TheGooch wrote:

metal hammer reckinoed it was not too good and also in the same issue had a feautre saying how they formed nu metal and metal core

although i have never heard them so i cant judge them

Metal Hammer is the Kerrang! of metal.

Fat Freddy wrote:

TheGooch wrote:

metal hammer reckinoed it was not too good and also in the same issue had a feautre saying how they formed nu metal and metal core

Metal Hammer is clueless.

if that is what they printed, i definitely agree that they are clueless!

I doubt 95% of metalcore bands have even heard PRONG. The main influence for metalcore was PANTERA and maybe AT THE GATES I think.

The new PRONG samples don't sound too great to me.

I'd say that the Cro-Mags were the earliest metalcore influence. I can see that some Metalcore kids were influenced by Phil's voice but Pantera's music was the original american groovemetal sound not metalcore, well at least the first three major label albums by them.

Temple of Blood wrote:

I doubt 95% of metalcore bands have even heard PRONG. The main influence for metalcore was PANTERA and maybe AT THE GATES I think.

The new PRONG samples don't sound too great to me.

Pantera? No way.