Prove you wrong

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Prove you wrong
Studio album by Prong

Publication
(s)

September 24, 1991

Label (s) Epic Records

Genre (s)

Hardcore - metal - crossover , groove metal

running time

45:07

occupation
  • Bass , vocals: Troy Gregory

production

Mark Dodson , Prong

Studio (s)

Kajcm Victory Recording Studios, Pennsylvania

chronology
Beg to Differ
(1990) 		Prove you wrong Cleansing
(1994)

Prove You Wrong (English phrase : (I) punish you lies) is the fourth studio album by the American hardcore / metal band Prong . It was released on September 24, 1991 on Epic Records .

Music genre

The hardcore influences take a back seat on the album, but can still be heard. The pieces are described as being a little more melodic than before. Many pieces are groovy mid-tempo numbers, but with Contradictions there is again a very slow, but with hard guitar riffs , on the album. Get a Grip (On Yourself) is a cover from the Stranglers . The original keyboard-oriented piece was rewritten for the guitar.

History of origin

With Troy Gregory a new bass player can be heard. According to Tommy Victor, Mike Kirkland, Gregory's predecessor, had grown tired of the band. However, Victor also described him as not a "particularly good bassist". It was recorded again with Mark Dodson in a studio in Pennsylvania . Music videos were shot for unconditional and pointless . After a European tour with Treponem Pal in the spring of 1992, the band played in the summer of that year as headliners at the Dynamo Open Air in the Netherlands .

Texts

The instrumental piece Territorial Rites , containing a monologue about the war, was played first on the live shows. Victor referred it to conflicts in the USA as well as to the events of that time in Eastern Europe or the former Yugoslavia . Prove You Wrong is aimed at people who advised the band to get more commercial. Victor said: “We won't let ourselves be deterred and that's how this song should be understood. One day we will prove the contrary . ” No Way to Deny It is directed against bad journalism, such as cheap news programs in the USA.

reception

In the Metal Hammer Andrea Nieradzik called Prove You Wrong “probably the most thrashy record to date”. Her conclusion: “Not quite as great as its predecessor, but still good enough.” She awarded six out of seven points. With an average grade of 4.6, the album reached twelfth place in the editors' “soundcheck”. Markus Müller in what was then Rock Hard saw the band as influenced by Voivod and Soundgarden , with whom they had toured for the previous album. But he also recognized his own identity, “almost a new style” that had emerged. He awarded nine out of ten points. The album reached fifth place on the monthly "editorial charts" of the time. In a later review on rockhard.de Michael Rensen saw "tons of good-class songs" on the album, "which have little of the monotonous stupidity of most of the competing bands." On Allmusic.com , Eduardo Rivadavia wrote that the album lacks the spark of its predecessor . Some songs are like Unconditional and Pointless are catchy, albeit repetitive, but this definitely is not a bad thing. Four out of five stars were awarded.

Track list

  1. Irrelevant Thoughts - 2:37 (Parsons, Victor)
  2. Unconditional - 4:45 (Troy Gregory, Victor)
  3. Positively Blind - 2:43 (Victor)
  4. Prove You Wrong - 3:31 (Gregory, Victor)
  5. Hell If I Could - 4:00 (Gregory, Victor)
  6. Pointless - 3:07 (Prong)
  7. Contradictions - 4:10 (Victor)
  8. Torn Between - 3:11 (Gregory, Victor)
  9. Brainwave - 3:01 (Victor)
  10. Territorial Rites - 3:31 (Prong)
  11. Get a Grip (On Yourself) - 3:05 (Hugh Cornwell)
  12. Shouldn't Have Bothered - 2:39 (Victor)
  13. No Way to Deny It - 4:41 (Victor)

Artwork

Like Beg to Differ , the album features a cover design by the well-known underground artist Brian Schroeder, aka Pushead . Among other things, it shows an installation made of the band's trident-like logo. The number three is to be represented. In the inner cover there are pictures of Hiroshima , the "absolute zero" and a Buddhist temple. They are supposed to "symbolize the problems and impermanence of mankind." The artist heard the album beforehand and then made his draft.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.rockhard.de: Review Prove You Wrong by Michael Rensen
  2. ↑ a b www.allmusic.com: Review Prove You Wrong by Eduardo Rivadavia
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Holger Stratmann: Der Kampf des Individuums , in: Rock Hard, No. 57, January 1992, p. 19.
  4. ↑ Andrea Nieradzik: Review Prove You Wrong , in: Metal Hammer, No. 10, October 1991, o. Pag.
  5. ↑ Markus Müller: Review Prove You Wrong , in: Rock Hard, No. 54, October 1991, p. 77