These riffs are so good, I just gained 5 pounds of muscle after listening to the whole album. I'd heard some tracks from here before in high school and college, but never deep dived the record before.
There's a lot of groove metal going on, but there's also things like industrial metal ("Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" "Whose Fist Is This Anyway?"), rap metal ("Broken Peace"), and some alternative metal ("Not Of This Earth", ... read more
No other Prong album sounds like this, which is a shame, since it contains some of Prong's best songs and one of the coolest styles they've settled on across their long career. It's the most distilled version of the percussive style that they, Helmet, and Pantera all started coming up with at about the same time. It has interesting industrial influence, a wonderfully grinding guitar sound (supplied by a Marshall Valvestate amplifier), and a killer sense of groove. Man, when this ... read more
I’m no expert on groove, but this album does what it advertises for the first 5 tracks; solid groove I can, y'know, groove to. I’d be happy if the album ended there because the rest sounds like generic, slow groove slop going too far into the mainstream Pantera sound, like “One Outnumbered” or with a mix of Soundgarden like “No Question”. A great start, but an unoriginal and unenjoyable middle and ending.
Favs: Cut-Rate; Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your ... read more
| 1 | Another Worldly Device 3:23 | 85 |
| 2 | Whose Fist Is This Anyway? 4:42 | 87 |
| 3 | Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck 4:11 | 94 |
| 4 | Cut-Rate 4:52 | 79 |
| 5 | Broken Peace 6:11 | 82 |
| 6 | One Outnumbered 4:58 | 79 |
| 7 | Out of This Misery 4:25 | 78 |
| 8 | No Question 4:17 | 84 |
| 9 | Not of This Earth 6:25 | 78 |
| 10 | Home Rule 3:57 | 81 |
| 11 | Sublime 3:53 | 83 |
| 12 | Test 6:40 | 91 |