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Cleansing (album)

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Released
  
January 25, 1994

Length
  
58:02

Artist
  
Prong

Producer
  
Terry Date

Recorded
  
1993

Cleansing (1994)
  
Rude Awakening (1996)

Release date
  
25 January 1994

Label
  
Epic Records

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Genres
  
Industrial metal, Hardcore punk, Groove metal, Alternative metal

Similar
  
Rude Awakening, Beg to Differ, Prove You Wrong, Scorpio Rising, Ruining Lives

Cleansing is the fourth album by the American heavy metal band Prong. It was produced by Terry Date, whereas all of Prong's previous albums had been produced by Mark Dodson. It includes ex-Killing Joke members Paul Raven on bass guitar and John Bechdel on keyboards/programming. Cleansing was Prong's only moderate commercial success. It was reissued in 2008 as a digipack version.

Contents

The music video to "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head. The professional wrestler Justin Credible used the track as his entrance theme in Extreme Championship Wrestling and when performing in the independent promotions.

To promote the album, Prong embarked on the Cleansing Tour which included opening acts Clutch and Drown. They also toured with Sepultura and Pantera as an opener for their Chaos A.D. and Far Beyond Driven tours.

Vision Thing by The Sisters of Mercy was an influence Cleansing. Tommy Victor said that the band had tired of their earlier thrash metal sound, and he wanted the band to go in a new direction that incorporated dance metal.

Track listing

All tracks by Prong

  1. "Another Worldly Device" – 3:23
  2. "Whose Fist Is This Anyway?" – 4:42
  3. "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" – 4:11
  4. "Cut-Rate" – 4:52
  5. "Broken Peace" – 6:11
  6. "One Outnumbered" – 4:58
  7. "Out of This Misery" – 4:25
  8. "No Question" – 4:17
  9. "Not of This Earth" – 6:25
  10. "Home Rule" – 3:57
  11. "Sublime" – 3:53
  12. "Test" – 6:40

Personnel

  • Tommy Victor - vocals/guitar
  • Paul Raven - bass guitar
  • Ted Parsons - drums
  • John Bechdel - keyboards

    • Cover versions

    "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" has been covered by several artists:

  • Dry Kill Logic on their Rot EP, which was only available from Roadrunner Records metal radio mail list
  • Demon Hunter on their album, The Triptych
  • Six Feet Under on their third cover album Graveyard Classics 3
  • Grinspoon on their EP, Pushing Buttons.

    • Album

    Billboard (North America)

    Reception

    Jason Roche of The Village Voice included Cleansing on his list of Top 20 New York Hardcore and Metals Albums, saying that it "proved to be as catchy as it was heavy".

    Songs

    1Another Worldly Device3:24
    2Whose Fist Is This Anyway?4:41
    3Snap Your Fingers - Snap Your Neck4:12

    References

    Cleansing (album) Wikipedia
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