Prong - Zero Days

Published July 23 2017

*=Staff's pick	However It May End Zero Days Off The Grid Divide And Conquer* Forced Into Tolerance Interbeing Blood Out Of Stone* Operation Of The Moral Law The Whispers* Self Righteous Indignation Rulers Of The Collective Compulsive Future Projection Wasting Of The Dawn

Genre	Hardcore	Tommy Victor	Vocals
Tracks	13	Tommy Victor	Guitar
Running time	47 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Steamhammer/SPV	Mike Longworth	Bass
Release	July 28, 2017	Art Cruz	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboards
Producer	Tommy Victor
Similar bands	-

Prong isn't the first name that comes to mind when I think about bands that make some tangible progress from one record to another and this new deal doesn't deviate from that recognizable trajectory either and is pretty much just simply following the path of the last couple of records where the music is based on clear riffing on a hardcore foundation or is in other words just kind of a punkish style of heavy metal.

Unlike the recently released albums, Zero Days however doesn't comprise a couple of super captivating tracks and only a few of the songs got something extra viable that makes me wanna concentrate a little more intensively. I usually and greatly fancy the band's melodic and sing along friendly songs that add another flavor to the whole making and expand the music into somewhat a different bracket in order to bring some variation to an otherwise quite linear configuration, but now the attempt to put forward a couple of great songs in that category turns out to be quite unsuccessful too.

Without actually being so unattractive, this record is maybe just too much of an extension of past work and even if I seldom look for revolutionizing change, I think my brain basically tells me that this is nothing wider than clearly more of the same stuff and that traditional clothing sometimes must alter to make it come out interesting again. A lump of 13 new songs in pretty much the exact same vein as before just doesn't do the trick this time and after a few good albums Prong is unable to come out really strong once again.

See also review of: X - No Absolutes , Ruining Lives

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	2	5	6	4

Summary
4 chalices of 10 - Tobbe