Rude Awakening (Prong album)

Rude Awakening is Prong's fifth album. Rude Awakening is an enhanced CD. It was also released as a special limited edition on 12" red vinyl. The album was reissued in 2008 as a digipak version, featuring four remixes of the "Rude Awakening" single and a new booklet.[2]

Rude Awakening
Studio album by
Prong
ReleasedMay 14, 1996
Recorded1995
Genre
Length45:50
LabelEpic
ProducerTerry Date, Tommy Victor
Prong chronology
Cleansing
(1994)		 Rude Awakening
(1996)		 100% Live
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Rude Awakening is the last Prong album to feature Ted Parsons and Paul Raven, as well as the band's last album on Epic Records.

Track listing

All tracks written by Prong except "Controller" by Prong and Scott Albert and "Slicing" by Prong and Joe Bishara Kebbe.[3]

  1. "Controller" – 3:39
  2. "Caprice" – 2:47
  3. "Rude Awakening" – 4:18
  4. "Unfortunately" – 3:08
  5. "Face Value" – 4:09
  6. "Avenue of the Finest" – 3:37
  7. "Slicing" – 3:29
  8. "Without Hope" – 3:13
  9. "Mansruin" – 3:29
  10. "Innocence Gone" – 3:11
  11. "Dark Signs" – 3:22
  12. "Close the Door" – 4:05
  13. "Proud Division" – 5:46

Personnel

Additional Personnel

Chart positions

Album

Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position Cite
1996 The Billboard 200 107 [4]

Reception

Reviewing the title track, Billboard wrote that the single's "assaulting, deviant style" shows why Prong is popular.[5] Jenni Glenn of CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that the album is heavier and angrier than Cleansing, blending thrash metal and industrial music to maintain their status of metal favorites.[6]

References
  1. "Rude Awakening - Prong". AllMusic.
  2. "SPV/Steamhammer Reissues METAL CHURCH, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, PRONG, BONHAM Titles In Europe". Blabbermouth.net. November 12, 2008. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  3. http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=4283308
  4. "Prong". Billboard. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  5. "Reviews & Previews: Singles: Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 108 no. 20. May 18, 1996. p. 70.
  6. Glenn, Jenni (April 1996). "Metal: Prong, Rude Awakening". CMJ New Music Monthly. No. 32. p. 28.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.