Tommy Victor, one of many hardest working folks in steel, pens a love letter to the 90’s with State of Emergency. Victor‘s Prong is ready to combine and meld collectively punk, steel and East Coast hardcore to create a ferocious report that reveals the exigency of the band’s heyday. Again once you heard Prong on steel radio and noticed them on MTV. Immediately FM Radio is almost vanished and MTV simply performs reruns of idiocy, but Victor continues to be cranking out biting, aggressive and impassioned steel with the identical zeal of musicians lower than half his age. That is so very obvious on this latest report that is filled with Victor‘s signature power and zeal.
Victor, a legend within the Northeast steel scene, sticks to the standard components on State of Emergency. Comparatively temporary tracks which might be 100% guitar pushed, that function an array of repetitive riffs written in a fashion the shows a heightened sense of urgency. This emblematic within the album’s opener, “The Descent,” which is a barn-burner that mixes pace with elements of hardcore and a beneficiant serving to of low-end within the combine. That is the model that has yielded the band quite a lot of success over it is impressively lengthy tenure.
The title observe, which is unmistakably Tommy Victor, sounds prefer it might simply be on a lot of the band’s information from the late 90’s. It is Victor‘s legendary use of his signature pinch harmonics (additionally very prevalent the observe “Breaking Level”). It is the heavy groove that will get your physique shifting. It is writing a heavy tune with out attempting too onerous to be heavy. These are the issues that Victor excels at and, neatly, he by no means actually strays too removed from his consolation zone.
Cuts like “Who Instructed Me” hit you onerous in a fashion that can evoke shades of the heft and crunch of bands like Biohazard with their nasty riffs and hooks that you’re going to really feel proper within the chest. Songs corresponding to “Obeisance” shake my woofers and annoy my neighbors. On the identical time, nevertheless, Victor demonstrates that he is unafraid to get a get melodic and even a bit ethereal with the accessible “Disconnected” that would simply match into fashionable rock radio if that was nonetheless actually a factor.
General, that is actually the strongest Prong report to hit the streets within the current previous. It is doubly spectacular given the truth that Victor can be the present guitarist in Danzig. He has lots on his plate but he nonetheless can write a very imply, actually direct steel tune that does not sound stale. Prong followers will rejoice with this latest LP.
