Listen to prongmusic's new single AgeOfDefiance
, Prong forged an offbeat alloy of metal and industrial that captured the danger, distress and claustrophobia of life in pre-2000s New York, the band’s former hometown.
Initially, “Age of Defiance” seems cut from the same cloth, opening with a metal guitar riff that strafes across a tank-like drum groove, both parts gnashing in unison with an almost militaristic zeal. With the word “defiance” in the title, the music lends itself to a familiar, fist-pumping brand of self-empowerment. On closer inspection, however, such lyrics as “Learn to lay down your defenses” and “With new endeavors learn how to bend” reveal the song as a call for temperance.
Guitarist-frontman-bandleader Tommy Victor maintains that there always has been a vulnerable streak in Prong’s sound — one of several elements that set the group apart from the unwavering aggression of its peers at the time. That said, vintage Prong is practically tailor-made for putting one’s guard up. Ditto for much of the band’s output since Victor revived the brand in 2002.
But as I go along, [whatever I’m writing tends to] become more relatable to the older stuff. That just happens automatically. The lyric is a little different, though. It has a different attitude. I mean, it’s not entirely new. I’ve written this type of song recently. There’s a song on [2012’s]X -- No AbsolutesThe song is also a little more free in terms of being more melodicOh, I appreciate that. We’ve matured over making records continually over the last seven years.
So why an EP with two new songs and three live tracks from a few years back of the current lineup doing songs from
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